A senior House Republican is asking the Department of Labor to “abandon” its proposed heat protections for workers.
Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), who chairs the Committee on Education and the Workforce, lambasted the draft rule by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration as a measure that was “pushed by climate activists and other Democrat special interest groups.”
Her letter to the agency added that it’s “another example of the out-of-touch, top-down federal mandates that have come from the Biden-Harris” administration.
The first-ever federal heat protections were proposed by OSHA in July after nearly 50 years of being urged by public health experts to address extreme heat. Fifty-five workers died from exposure to heat last year, according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Thursday.
