Public Citizen Health Research Group v. Thorne G. Auchter, Assistant Secretary, Occupational Safety and Health Administration

How courts have described this case

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• noting the “[ajmple evidence in the record indicating] a significant risk that some workers, who [were] actually being exposed to levels of [ethylene oxide] greater than the 10 ppm ‘average’ ” encountered “a potentially grave danger to both their health and the health of their progeny”
• “[E]mergency standards are to be used only in limited situations” and “only as an unusual response to exceptional circumstances.” (quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).