The Mine Safety and Health Administration issued a final rule delaying the compliance date for the Biden-era silica regulation for metal and nonmetal mines indefinitely.
The notice, released Friday, cited the ongoing judicial stay in the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit as the reason.
The US Labor Department subagency announced last December that it planned to engage in limited rulemaking to replace parts of the Biden-era regulation that would require mines to cut respirable silica levels in half.
The agency said in a court filing it will seek comments on portions of the silica rule currently under ...