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 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 |
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 Eli Wolfe on July 18, 2018
For the third time in six years, a branch of one of the world’s largest cargo-handling companies has been accused by workplace safety authorities of a willful violation linked to a worker’s death.
Posted in FairWarning Reports, Recent Stories | Tagged labor laws, Workplace, 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 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 Eli Wolfe on June 28, 2018
It’s no secret that the waning power of American unions has contributed to stagnant wages. But a new study suggests that this trend hasn’t affected just worker income. It also may have cost thousands of lives. The portion of the U.S. work force covered by unions has fallen for decades, and the labor movement suffered…
Posted in FairWarning Reports, Recent Stories | Tagged Labor Department, labor laws, Workplace, Workplace Safety and Health |
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 |
By Chelsea Conaboy on June 12, 2018
Vodka toasts for gun rights group: Several prominent Russians, including people said to be in Putin’s inner circle or powerful within the Russian Orthodox Church, met with officials of the National Rifle Association in Moscow and elsewhere during the 2016 presidential campaign, according to a McClatchy report.
Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Air Pollution/Toxic Exposure, Consumer Protection, FDA, food safety, Smoking and Tobacco Industry, wage theft, 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 |
