By Nate Seltenrich on June 27, 2019
Growing cannabis indoors requires a huge amount of energy, but states are doing little to limit or monitor usage.
Posted in FairWarning Reports, Recent Stories | Tagged Environmental Safety and Health, Government accountability |
By Lynne Peeples on June 12, 2019
The death of filmmaker Andrew Nisker’s father, Harold, of cancer in 2014 led him on a search for truth about golf courses and pesticide use.
Posted in FairWarning Reports | Tagged Air Pollution/Toxic Exposure, Consumer Protection, Environmental Safety and Health |
By Eli Wolfe and Myron Levin on June 5, 2019
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has directed people to destroy information it says it inadvertently gave them, but some have refused.
Posted in FairWarning Reports | Tagged Consumer product safety, Consumer Protection, Government accountability, Product Hazards and Recalls |
By Phil Zahodiakin on May 8, 2019
The Department of Energy is struggling to clean up the country’s “biggest and scariest” radioactive waste sites, says the GAO
Posted in FairWarning Reports, Recent Stories | Tagged Air Pollution/Toxic Exposure, Environmental Safety and Health, Workplace Safety and Health |
By Eli Wolfe on April 11, 2019
887 workers were killed in falls in 2017, the highest number reported by the government in nearly 30 years.
Posted in FairWarning Reports, Recent Stories | Tagged Government accountability, Labor Department, labor laws, OSHA, Workplace, Workplace Safety and Health |
By Christopher Jensen on April 10, 2019
The federal government’s 1995 decision to allow states to set speed limits higher than 65 mph caused almost 14,000 additional deaths over 25 years on interstates and freeways.
Posted in FairWarning Reports, Recent Stories | Tagged Auto and Highway Safety, Consumer Protection |
By Myron Levin on April 1, 2019
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.
Posted in FairWarning Reports, Recent Stories | Tagged Consumer product safety, Consumer Protection, Government accountability, Product Hazards and Recalls |
By Eli Wolfe and Myron Levin on March 20, 2019
Federal officials concede that the death toll is an undercount. Fatalities involving some trail machines are not included.
Posted in FairWarning Reports, Recent Stories | Tagged Auto and Highway Safety, Consumer product safety, Off-Road Vehicles, Product Hazards and Recalls |
By Eli Wolfe on March 7, 2019
When sued for withholding records, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has fared poorly in court.
Posted in FairWarning Reports, Recent Stories | Tagged Auto and Highway Safety, Consumer Protection, Gadgets and Distracted Driving, Government accountability |
By Myron Levin on February 27, 2019
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…
Posted in FairWarning Reports, Recent Stories | Tagged Auto and Highway Safety, Cell Phones, Consumer Protection, Gadgets and Distracted Driving |
