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DOJ Pact Highlights Policy To Leverage Environment Laws In OSHA Cases

October 13, 2016 at 6:13 PM
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has settled an enforcement action against a Texas petrochemical facility, bringing steep fines for Clean Air Act violations in a case that began with an OSHA investigation of a fatal accident and highlighting the benefits of an almost year-old DOJ policy aimed at leveraging environmental laws to impose stiffer penalties for workplace violations than OSHA would otherwise be able to win. DOJ Oct. 12 announced settlement deals with four Texas companies that pleaded guilty to...

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