FTC and DOJ Antitrust Division weigh premerger protocol changes

With Assistant Attorney General of the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice concurrence, the Federal Trade Commission is proposing changes to the premerger notification form and associated instructions, as well as the premerger notification rules implementing the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act. That law and its implementing rules require the parties to certain mergers and acquisitions to submit premerger notification to…

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Industry representatives step to podium at OSHA silica rule hearings

Sources: Occupational Safety and Health Administration; CP staff

Officers of major concrete, cement and aggregate producer associations are prepared to challenge the technical and economic merits of measures at the heart of OSHA’s public hearings for Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Occupational Exposure to Respirable Crystalline Silica.

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