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“However commendable [the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s] desire to improve mental health in the workplace, like all agencies, OSHA’s authority to regulate toward that end is constrained by the limits of power Congress delegated to the agency,” wrote Judge Cory Wilson of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, … “OSHA’s reading of [the Occupational Safety and Health Act] to encompass the power to regulate workplace mental illnesses may be plausible. But the best reading of the statute is narrower: that ‘illnesses,’ as used there, refers to physical, and not mental, work-related ailments and conditions.”