Government Affairs

The NFFS Government Affairs Committee Issues Report for September 2023

On September 21, NFFS joined the Coalition for Workplace Safety (CWS) and 73 other organizations in sending a letter to the Assistant Secretary of...

On July 13, 2023, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed to update and expand the 2022 proposal of the National Emission Standards...

On September 8, 2023, the Department of Labor (DOL) introduced a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) titled "Defining and Delimiting the...

Photo Credit: Timon - stock.adobe.com In a significant development, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has decided to resurrect...

The American Metalcasting Consortium is a collaborative effort between the Non-Ferrous Founders' Society (NFFS), the American Foundry Society (AFS),...

The U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has proposed significant changes to the Section 232 tariff exclusion...

On August 24, the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) completed its review of OSHA’s Worker Walkaround Representative...

Did You Know? The Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) is in the process of developing a new Heat Injury and Illness Prevention...

OSHA plans to regulate workplace exposure to hazardous heat and is seeking feedback from small businesses in industries that it expects to be most...

OSHA and EPA are both actively engaging with non-ferrous foundries on a variety of different topics

OSHA announced on Monday that it is amending its occupational injury and illness recordkeeping regulation to require certain employers to...