Looks like the Washington Post is also focused on the subject of undermining regulations . Apparently, it is the topic de jure. Unfortunately, I fear it may be too late and too complex to actually become part of the larger political debate. The paragraph that caught my eye in this article, the first of three, was about the proliferation of "voluntary" requirements, an idea I find utterly silly:

It has made sense to strengthen the agency's relationships with businesses, encouraging voluntary compliance. To do so, OSHA has created a new kind of voluntary program, intended to foster "trusting, cooperative relationships" between the government and groups of industries and professional societies, according to an agency fact sheet. These new alliances, as they are known, depart from a central tradition throughout the agency's history: They are allowed to exclude labor unions.