Republicans Attack Rules Designed to Keep Workers Safe From Heat

Inside Climate News · By Liza Gross · last updated May 15, 2025 – 5:01 PM

The Trump administration eviscerated the only agency tasked with studying worker health and safety. Now, Republicans have revived a plan to stop OSHA “overreach.” Advocates fear it could further endanger workers.

By Liza Gross

A warming climate exposes more and more workers to increasingly hotter conditions every year, yet soon after taking office, Donald Trump indefinitely froze a heat illness prevention rule proposed under the previous administration and gutted the only agency that studies workplace health and safety.

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