House Panel Will Examine Workplace Rules On Toxics.

The article reports that the U.S. House Education and Labor Workforce Protections Subcommittee will hold a hearing to question Labor Department regulations that would add steps to the bureaucratic process to protect workers from toxic chemicals. Education and Labor Chairman George Miller has introduced legislation to prohibit the department from issuing the rules. The rules would require the agency to perform a risk assessment that would require an advance notice of proposed rulemaking.