By Chelsea Conaboy on October 16, 2018
Labor Department recovers $304 million in illegally underpaid wages in the last fiscal year, up from the previous high of $281 million
Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Auto and Highway Safety, Climate Change, Consumer Protection, Environmental Safety and Health, FDA, Firearms, Government accountability, Labor Department, wage theft, Workplace Safety and Health |
By Eli Wolfe on October 15, 2018
Despite mounting casualties from crashes of recreational off-highway vehicles, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has shot down a proposal to track injuries and deaths involving the popular trail machines.
Posted in Recent Stories | Tagged Auto and Highway Safety, Off-Road Vehicles |
By Chelsea Conaboy on October 9, 2018
The world’s leading body of climate scientists has issued a report saying that climate change is altering the planet more rapidly than previously thought and that things will have to change rapidly to moderate the effects,
Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Air Pollution/Toxic Exposure, Auto and Highway Safety, Cell Phones, Climate Change, Consumer Protection, Environmental Safety and Health, Food Supply, Government accountability, wage theft |
By Chelsea Conaboy on September 18, 2018
Authorities told JUUL and four other makers of e-cigarettes that they have 60 days to submit a plan addressing the problem, while also sending more than 1,300 warning letters to retailers that it said illegally sold e-cigarette products to teens.
Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Auto and Highway Safety, Climate Change, Consumer Protection, Environmental Safety and Health, FDA, OSHA, Pharmaceutical Industry and Drugs, Smoking and Tobacco Industry, wage theft, Workplace Safety and Health |
By Myron Levin on September 13, 2018
Consumer advocates are attacking a bill heading for a vote soon in the U.S. Senate that would clear legal obstacles for the deployment of driverless cars.
Posted in FairWarning Reports, Recent Stories | Tagged Auto and Highway Safety, Consumer Protection, Gadgets and Distracted Driving, Government accountability |
By Chelsea Conaboy on August 28, 2018
There’s a new Marlboro Man, and she’s an Instagram influencer: Actually, there are many, according to a petition filed by public health advocacy groups asking the Federal Trade Commission to investigate tobacco companies’ use of social media campaigns to lure young customers. “The tobacco companies are engaging in the same marketing tactics they used in the…
Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Air Pollution/Toxic Exposure, Auto and Highway Safety, Climate Change, Environmental Safety and Health, FDA, Firearms, Government accountability, Smoking and Tobacco Industry, Workplace, Workplace Safety and Health |
By Chelsea Conaboy on August 21, 2018
Proposal to rewrite pollution rules for coal-fired power plants would increase greenhouse gas emissions and harm public health, according to the EPA’s own analysis.
Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Air Pollution/Toxic Exposure, Auto and Highway Safety, Climate Change, Environmental Safety and Health, EPA, Firearms, Government accountability, Pharmaceutical Industry and Drugs, Workplace Safety and Health |
By Eli Wolfe on August 20, 2018
For the second time in recent months, the U.S. Department of Labor has extracted penalties from a California farm business blamed for the deadly crash of a vehicle transporting migrant field workers to their jobs.
Posted in FairWarning Reports, Recent Stories | Tagged Auto and Highway Safety, Food Supply, Government accountability, labor laws, wage theft, Workplace, Workplace Safety and Health |
By Chelsea Conaboy on August 7, 2018
Food-borne diseases cause about 9.4 million illnesses in the U.S. each year. When it comes to outbreaks of things like salmonella, listeria and E. coli, chicken is the leading culprit, with pork and seeded vegetables close behind.
Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Air Pollution/Toxic Exposure, Auto and Highway Safety, Consumer Protection, Firearms, food safety, Government accountability, Wildfires |
By Chelsea Conaboy on July 31, 2018
President Trump tweeted that selling 3-D printed guns to the public “doesn’t seem to make much sense!” But his administration agreed to a settlement in June allowing online publication of gun blueprints by a company called Defense Distributed.
Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Air Pollution/Toxic Exposure, Auto and Highway Safety, Climate Change, Consumer Protection, Firearms, food safety, Workplace Safety and Health |
