8th Circuit Stays MSHA Silica Rule Compliance Deadlines Pending Review

The 8th Circuit has stayed compliance deadlines of the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s (MSHA) silica rule amid industry concerns that MSHA’s voluntary pause on enforcement of the rule does not provide the certainty of a stay pending judicial review. “The motion for a stay of the Silica Rule compliance deadlines until this court completes a substantive review of the petition is granted,” the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit says in an April 11 order in consolidated...