Utah leaders sued to stop a Biden conservation rule they said would harm ranchers. Now the Trump administration has acted.

Trump administration pauses new mine safety regulation − here’s how those rules benefit companies as well as workers

Federal officials in white hard hats speak with miners in an Indiana coal mine in 2015. AP Photo/Timothy D. EasleyPresident Donald Trump’s administration has announced its intention to pause or reverse regulations on mine safety, saying it wants to loosen rules that constrain companies. But as a scholar of both engineering and public policy, with a focus on the risk of exposures to air pollutants and other safety issues, I have seen how safety r…

Utah leaders sued to stop a Biden conservation rule they said would harm ranchers. Now the Trump administration has acted.

Utah last year sued to throw out a Biden-era conservation rule for public lands. Now, President Donald Trump’s White House has started the process of rolling it back. The Bureau of Land Management office in Salt Lake City is pictured on Wednesday, March 19. Photo by Francisco Kjolseth/The Salt Lake Tribune The Public Lands Rule, also called the Conservation and Landscape Health Rule, was finalized by the Bureau of Land Management last June. Acco…