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Grade inflation in school makes it difficult to distinguish who is actually achieving in the classroom. The federal government’s vehicle safety rating system suffers the same problem. Today, 98 percent of all vehicles tested receive four or five stars for crashworthiness. Consumer advocates and safety experts say it’s time to raise the bar for the New Car Assessment Program, which hasn’t been updated in nearly 10 years.
For a huge swath of Northern California, the air suddenly became hazardous last November. Thick smoke from the most destructive wildfire in state history was delivering a secondary blow to nearly ten million Californians, some of whom turned to a new class of consumer air monitors to help keep them safe. Public-health experts say such…
There’s a broad scientific consensus that alcohol is a carcinogen. Now some advocates want alcoholic beverages to come with cancer warning labels.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has directed people to destroy information it says it inadvertently gave them, but some have refused.
A safety standard created by the lawn mower industry hasn’t stopped riding mowers from backing over and seriously injuring small children.
Editor's note: Correction and update April 11. See note at end of the story.
Members of Congress are demanding information about the CPSC chair’s ties with industry, citing FairWarning’s report on Bracewell lobbyists.
Federal officials concede that the death toll is an undercount. Fatalities involving some trail machines are not included.
Editor's note: Story was updated April 11. See clarification at end of the story.
Business groups call on well-connected lobbying firm to help thwart unwanted federal standards. They have not been disappointed.
When sued for withholding records, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has fared poorly in court.
Editor's note: See update at end of story.
Garrett Wilhelm was chatting with the Facetime app on his Apple iPhone, police say, as he sped along an interstate highway northwest of Dallas on the day before Christmas in 2014. He crashed his SUV into a sedan carrying a young family, killing five-year-old Moriah Modisette and injuring her parents and sister. Ashley Kubiak was…
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