Codify Agency Expertise on Health and Safety Rules

The Supreme Court overruled Chevron deference in Loper Bright in June 2024, moving the power to interpret unclear health, safety, and environmental laws from expert agencies to generalist judges.

A letter to your members of Congress. Facts checked October 8, 2026.

The explainer behind this letter Chevron Deference The rule on agency power the Supreme Court overturned in 2024

The Letter

Subject Protect Health and Safety Rules After Loper Bright

Clean air, safe drugs, and fair overtime pay should not turn on how one judge reads an unclear law. Since the Supreme Court ended Chevron deference in Loper Bright v. Raimondo in June 2024, judges instead of agency experts decide what ambiguous health, safety, and labor laws mean. Courts have already used the ruling to strike a federal overtime rule covering millions of salaried workers.

I am asking you to support legislation that restores deference to agency scientists and specialists on technical questions and requires agencies to weigh public input before they act. The Stop Corporate Capture Act, last introduced in 2024, is one model, and it deserves a new version in this Congress.

Please tell me where you stand on restoring agency expertise.

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I'm calling to ask my representative to protect health and safety rules after the Supreme Court ended Chevron deference in June 2024.
Since that ruling, judges instead of agency experts decide what unclear health, safety, and labor laws mean, and courts have already struck a federal overtime rule.
Please support legislation that restores deference to agency expertise on technical questions, like a new version of the Stop Corporate Capture Act.
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The Facts Behind the Ask

6-3 Supreme Court vote across Loper Bright v. Raimondo and its companion case (June 28, 2024) that overruled Chevron deference after 40 years (source)
Up to $710/day the agency's own estimate of the at-sea monitor cost on herring boats that drove the case, cutting owners' annual returns by up to 20% (source)
Independent judgment what courts now use on unclear federal laws; an agency's reading counts only if it persuades the judge (source)

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