By Chelsea Conaboy on November 27, 2018
The latest National Climate Assessment projects a rise in heat-related deaths and billions of dollars in economic damage by century’s end.
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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,
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By Chelsea Conaboy on October 2, 2018
In the year after the slaughter that killed 58 people on the Las Vegas strip, state lawmakers have had mixed success in passing new gun control measures.
Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Climate Change, Consumer Protection, Environmental Safety and Health, Firearms, food safety, Food Supply, Government accountability, Smoking and Tobacco Industry, Workplace Safety and Health |
By Chelsea Conaboy on September 4, 2018
California lawmakers have passed a bill pledging to make 100 percent of the state’s electricity carbon-free by 2045. That could solidify the state’s status as a world leader on clean energy and send a message that it is serious about facing the realities of more intense wildfires, drought and sea level rise caused by climate change.
Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Climate Change, Environmental Safety and Health, Firearms, Food Supply, Government accountability |
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 14, 2018
Internal emails reveal concerns raised by agency experts about the Trump administration’s ideas for regulating the carcinogen.
Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Air Pollution/Toxic Exposure, Climate Change, Consumer Protection, e-cigarettes, Environmental Safety and Health, FDA, Food Supply, Government accountability, Smoking and Tobacco Industry, wage theft, Workplace Safety and Health |
By Paul Feldman on May 9, 2018
Farmers in California, the nation’s top agricultural state, are applying near-record levels of pesticides despite the rising popularity of organic produce and concerns about the health of farmworkers and rural schoolchildren. The latest figures, released in April by the California Department of Pesticide Regulation and covering 2016, show that 209 million pounds of pesticide active…
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By Paul Feldman on April 19, 2018
Dicamba, an herbicide sold by agribusiness giants Monsanto, BASF and DowDupont, doesn’t just kill weeds. Last year, according to a University of Missouri survey, dicamba damaged an estimated 3.6 million acres of soybeans across 25 states when it drifted from farms planted with seeds genetically engineered to resist the chemical onto regular soybean fields. That…
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Big Companies in Legal Scrapes Turn to Science-for-Hire Giant Exponent
By Myron Levin and Paul Feldman on December 13, 2016
The Fall of Icarus is the Greek myth about a youth who gets a pair of wax-and-feather wings but soars too close to the sun–melting the wings and casting him into the sea. In the 1990s, a consulting firm called Failure Analysis Associates ran tongue-in-cheek ads aimed at corporate lawyers that retold the myth as…
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