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Pharmaceutical Industry and Drugs

Up to 1,400 Premature Deaths a Year Predicted Due to Trump Plan for Easing Pollution Controls on Power Plants

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Up to 1,400 Premature Deaths a Year Predicted Due to Trump Plan for Easing Pollution Controls on Power Plants

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 | Leave a comment

Johnson & Johnson Hit With $4.69 Billion Loss in Baby Powder-Ovarian Cancer Case FairWarining Reports

Johnson & Johnson Hit With $4.69 Billion Loss in Baby Powder-Ovarian Cancer Case

By Myron Levin and Stuart Silverstein on July 12, 2018

The legal assault on Johnson & Johnson and its signature baby powder reached new heights today, when a state court jury in Missouri found the company responsible for the ovarian cancers of 22 women, and ordered the drug and consumer products giant to pay $4.69 billion in compensatory and punitive damages to the cancer victims…

Posted in FairWarning Reports, Recent Stories | Tagged Asbestos, Environmental Safety and Health, Johnson & Johnson, Pharmaceutical Industry and Drugs, Product Hazards and Recalls, talc | 1 Response

Courtroom Battles Loom Over Climate Change

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Courtroom Battles Loom Over Climate Change

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 | Leave a comment

Mystery Solved? Ozone-Destroying Gas Wafting from Plants in China

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Mystery Solved? Ozone-Destroying Gas Wafting from Plants in China

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 | Leave a comment

VA Uses an Old Trick at Failing Nursing Homes: Hide the Report Card

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VA Uses an Old Trick at Failing Nursing Homes: Hide the Report Card

By Chelsea Conaboy on June 19, 2018

Bad grades? What bad grades?:  Nearly half of all Department of Veterans Affairs nursing homes received the agency’s lowest possible quality ratings as of December. But until very recently that information was hidden from families looking for a home for their loved ones, an investigation by The Boston Globe and USA Today found. The VA…

Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Auto and Highway Safety, Consumer Protection, Environmental Safety and Health, Medical Errors, Pharmaceutical Industry and Drugs, Workplace Safety and Health | Leave a comment

Money, Sex and Fentanyl

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Money, Sex and Fentanyl

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 | Leave a comment

Pay Gap Between CEOs and Employees Growing W-i-d-er

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Pay Gap Between CEOs and Employees Growing W-i-d-er

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 | Leave a comment

J&J Absorbs Another Big Loss in Baby Powder-Mesothelioma Case FairWarining Reports

J&J Absorbs Another Big Loss in Baby Powder-Mesothelioma Case

By Myron Levin on May 24, 2018

Editor's note: See update at bottom of story.

For the second time in less than two months, Johnson & Johnson has suffered a big courtroom loss in a case that blamed a rare asbestos-related cancer on long-term use of contaminated baby powder. A state court jury in Southern California ordered the company to pay $4 million in punitive damages to mesothelioma victim Joanne Anderson and her husband, bringing the total verdict to about $25.7 million.

Posted in FairWarning Reports, Recent Stories | Tagged Environmental Safety and Health, Pharmaceutical Industry and Drugs, Product Hazards and Recalls, talc | Leave a comment

Nearly 5 Million U.S. Children Live With Guns Unlocked and Loaded

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Nearly 5 Million U.S. Children Live With Guns Unlocked and Loaded

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 | Leave a comment

For Big Pharma, Nothing to Fear

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For Big Pharma, Nothing to Fear

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 | Leave a comment

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Labor Department Waters Down Injury Reporting Rule Targeted by Business

By Eli Wolfe

A requirement that employers disclose more information about worker injuries to safety officials and the public has been scaled back by the Trump administration.

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With Smack-Talking Invective, Lawyer Groups Appeal to Public as One Big Jury Pool

By Stuart Silverstein

Athletes are legendary trash talkers. But the business groups that howl about bogus lawsuits and plaintiff lawyers who claim to fight for ordinary folks victimized by corporations aren’t exactly slouches either.

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Law Puts Big Retailers on the Hook for Pay Owed to Truckers

By Eli Wolfe

For years, truck drivers hauling billions of dollars of clothing, appliances and other consumer goods from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have complained about rampant wage law violations by the trucking firms that hire them. The alleged abuses include failing to pay minimum wages and overtime.

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Feds Find Memory Boosters Were Falsely Labeled But Refuse to Say Which Ones

By Stuart Silverstein

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Federal Vaccine Court Quietly Pays Out Billions

By Eli Wolfe

A chickenpox outbreak at a private school in North Carolina drew extensive national news coverage in November. The thrust of most stories was the public health threat of unvaccinated children and superstitious beliefs about vaccine risks.

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