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 July 10, 2018
Coming to blows over “breast is best”: In one of the more bizarre international incidents involving the Trump administration, U.S. officials strong-armed would-be sponsors of a World Health Assembly resolution that called for supporting breastfeeding and limiting misleading marketing of substitutes, Andrew Jacobs of The New York Times writes. The U.S., in a possible concession…
Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Air Pollution/Toxic Exposure, Climate Change, Environmental Safety and Health, Firearms, food safety, Government ethics, Plastic pollution, wage theft |
By Chelsea Conaboy on July 3, 2018
The Ocean State v. Big Oil: Rhode Island, which has more than 400 miles of coastline, has become the first state in the country to sue oil companies for the cost of protecting itself from rising seas. More than a dozen cities and counties in four other states have filed similar lawsuits that aim to hold…
Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Air Pollution/Toxic Exposure, Auto and Highway Safety, Climate Change, Firearms, Off-Road Vehicles, Pharmaceutical Industry and Drugs, Vaccine Safety, Workplace Safety and Health |
By Myron Levin and Stuart Silverstein on June 26, 2018
Outlawed emissions: A mysterious increase in emissions of a banned industrial gas that destroys the atmosphere’s protective ozone layer has been traced to a province in China where manufacturers have kept using it to make foam insulation. According to The New York Times, the spike in emissions of CFC-11 is undermining the success of the…
Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Air Pollution/Toxic Exposure, Consumer Protection, Firearms, Pharmaceutical Industry and Drugs, Smoking and Tobacco Industry, wage violations, Workplace |
By Chelsea Conaboy on June 5, 2018
It’s hard to know where to begin with this story about how Insys executives — several under federal indictment — allegedly lured doctors willing to risk their patients’ lives for a trip to a strip club. The allegations are in whistleblower complaints filed by former sales reps and two people who worked for a company that processed insurance claims.
Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Auto and Highway Safety, Consumer Protection, Firearms, OSHA, Pharmaceutical Industry and Drugs |
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 Chelsea Conaboy on May 15, 2018
Drugmakers, investors buoyed by Trump speech: Even as President Trump, during a much anticipated speech, promised to “derail the gravy train” in health care, Big Pharma stock prices were rising. Carolyn Y. Johnson of The Washington Post writes that Trump’s 44-page blueprint, dubbed “American Patients First,” was long on policy ideas and light on how to…
Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Firearms, food safety, Pharmaceutical Industry and Drugs, wage theft |
By Paul Feldman and Stuart Silverstein on June 16, 2016
California lawmakers have agreed to spend $5 million to open a first-in-the-nation gun violence research center, a move intended to circumvent a ban on federal firearm studies. The research center, which would be based at a campus in the University of California system, would take over a job the federal government dropped 20 years ago….
Posted in FairWarning Reports | Tagged Firearms |
By Leah Bartos on March 10, 2016
Editor's note: See update at the bottom of this story.
A new battlefront has emerged in the nation’s struggle over gun control: a proposed firearm violence research center at the University of California. In a move being closely watched by advocates on both sides, California lawmakers are pushing for the state to study gun violence, taking over a job the federal government dropped 20 years…
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By Stuart Silverstein on January 20, 2015
After being thwarted in Congress following the 2012 school shooting rampage in Newtown, Conn., gun control activists have scored some important victories in states around the country. One of the biggest wins came in Washington State. In November, voters by a wide margin approved a state ballot measure extending, to gun shows and other private…
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