1.0 link 147134 <![CDATA[Bush Planning To Issue 20 'Highly Contentious' Rules In Final Weeks]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/29/bush-planning-to-issue-20_n_147134.html The Labor Department is racing to complete a new rule, strenuously opposed by President-elect Barack Obama, that would make it much harder for the government to regulate toxic substances and hazardous chemicals to which workers are exposed on the job.

The rule, which has strong support from business groups, says that in assessing the risk from a particular substance, federal agencies should gather and analyze "industry-by-industry evidence" of employees' exposure to it during their working lives. The proposal would, in many...

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