By Chelsea Conaboy on December 18, 2018
An epidemic of advanced black lung disease spread over Appalachia, killing more and more coal miners, while regulators sat on their hands
Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Climate Change, Consumer Protection, Drinking Water, Environmental Safety and Health, FDA, food safety, Food Supply, Government accountability, Pharmaceutical Industry and Drugs, Smoking and Tobacco Industry, Workplace Safety and Health |
By Chelsea Conaboy on September 11, 2018
A hat-trick for the energy industry: The Trump administration is once again turning energy industry hopes into reality, with a plan to make it easier for oil and gas wells to leak methane, one of the most potent greenhouse gases. Coral Davenport of The New York Times reports that the Environmental Protection Agency will put…
Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Air Pollution/Toxic Exposure, Climate Change, Consumer Protection, Drinking Water, Environmental Safety and Health, Firearms, Government accountability, immigration, Smoking and Tobacco Industry |
By Chelsea Conaboy on July 24, 2018
For the fourth time since 2011, a government audit has found that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is failing in key oversight roles meant to reduce injuries and deaths on the nation’s roads. The new audit criticized the agency’s handling of the massive recall of faulty Takata air bag inflators.
Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Auto and Highway Safety, Climate Change, Consumer Protection, Drinking Water, Endangered Species Act, Government accountability, Product Hazards and Recalls, Smoking and Tobacco Industry, Workplace Safety and Health |
By Chelsea Conaboy on July 17, 2018
There’s a lot to digest from Helsinki this week. But don’t miss this story happening not in Finland but in Washington. Mariia Butina, a 29-year-old Russian gun enthusiast, was arrested Sunday ….
Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Consumer Protection, Drinking Water, Firearms, food safety, Government accountability, wage violations, Whistleblowers, Workplace Safety and Health |
By Chelsea Conaboy on May 29, 2018
CEOs living large – really, really large: The New York Times has published an accounting of the highest paid CEOs at American companies in 2017 and how their compensation compares to median pay for their workers. It’s painful to read. A Walmart employee would have to work more than 1,000 years at the company’s median salary…
Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Auto and Highway Safety, Consumer Protection, Drinking Water, Pharmaceutical Industry and Drugs, wages, Workplace Safety and Health |
By Chelsea Conaboy on May 22, 2018
About 4.6 million children in the United States live in homes where guns are kept unlocked and loaded, as more people come to believe – despite scientific evidence to the contrary – that a home with a gun is a safer home, according to a new analysis …
Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Air Pollution/Toxic Exposure, Auto and Highway Safety, Consumer Protection, Drinking Water, Environmental Safety and Health, Firearms, Pharmaceutical Industry and Drugs, Product Hazards and Recalls, Workplace Safety and Health |
By Dan Ross on December 14, 2017
In the early 1900s, a young dentist named Frederick McKay moved to a Colorado town where the residents’ teeth — though in some cases stained chocolate brown — had far less decay than was typical back then. He and other researchers eventually linked the phenomenon to fluoride in the town’s drinking water – a eureka moment that would usher in what is often called one of the 10 great public health achievements of the 20th century.
Posted in FairWarning Investigates | Tagged Consumer Protection, Drinking Water, Environmental Safety and Health |
By Paul Feldman on October 16, 2017
Scientists have known for decades that drinking water contaminated by fertilizer nitrates can pose a threat to infants by undermining the ability of their blood to carry oxygen. The condition, known as ‘blue baby syndrome,” led federal regulators to impose an environmental standard of no more than 10 parts per million, or ppm, for nitrates in…
Posted in FairWarning Reports | Tagged Consumer Protection, Drinking Water |
By Dan Ross on July 25, 2017
Want to know what hazards might be lurking in your local water supply? An updated online database launched today by the Environmental Working Group, a research and advocacy organization, provides some answers. The online resource is known as the EWG’s Tap Water Database. It lists contaminants as well as their levels and likely sources, and…
Posted in FairWarning Reports | Tagged Consumer Protection, Drinking Water, Environmental Safety and Health |
By Dan Ross on February 28, 2017
At toxic cleanup sites across the country, environmental agencies have allowed groundwater contamination to go untreated and slowly diminish over time—a strategy that saves money for polluters but could cost taxpayers dearly and jeopardize drinking water supplies. The strategy is called monitored natural attenuation, or MNA. With little public awareness or debate, it has come…
Posted in FairWarning Investigates | Tagged Air Pollution/Toxic Exposure, Drinking Water, Environmental Safety and Health |
