President Obama on Tuesday informed House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) that his administration is considering seven regulations that would cost more than $1 billion.

Environmental groups are condemning President Obama’s decision last week to ask the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to withdraw the draft Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards.

The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA) is expressing “deep frustration” over President Obama’s decision to delay a new National Air Quality Standard for ground level ozone.

President Obama visited Master Lock’s Milwaukee manufacturing plant yesterday, where he received a tour of the facility and led a discussion on the economy, American manufacturing and the importance of companies insourcing and investing in America.

Pelican Products, the global leader in the design and manufacture of both high-performance protective case solutions and advanced portable lighting systems, has appointed Joe Eckerle as Vice President and General Manager of their South Deerfield facility.

Michael D. Love, CPA, President and CEO of Gateway Safety and Robert A. “Bob” Weber, CIH, Global Quality and Regulatory Affairs Manager of 3M Company’s Occupational Health and Environmental Safety Division (OH&ESD) have been elected to the Board of Trustees of the International Safety Equipment Association (ISEA), the association for personal protective equipment and technologies.

Pelican Products has been awarded the Presidential “E” Award for Exports by U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary, John Bryson, at the White House in Washington, D.C.

Cass Sunstein, administrator of the powerful Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the White House Office of Management and Budget, will return later this month to the post he held previously at Harvard Law School, the White House has announced.

Of course there is much chatter about the upcoming presidential elections. According to a recent ISHN magazine poll, safety profession will overwhelmingly vote for Mitt Romney.

Walt Whitman called it “choosing day.” Tomorrow is the day we get to choose. And the “we get” is important. As you well know, millions and millions of people around this globe do not get the chance to choose their leaders.