Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Tesla workers in Germany join union as health and safety issues grow - union Reuters PaulaR Fri, 10/13/2023 - 14:48 Monday, October 9, 2023 Read more Victoria Waldersee GRUENHEIDE, Germany, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Tesla (TSLA.O) workers at the carmaker's Brandenburg plant are joining the IG Metall union in rising numbers over concerns around health, safety (..)

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Nanotech

MARCH 3, 2023

The March 2023 issue of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health’s (NIOSH) eNews includes an item announcing publication of an article entitled “ Results of the 2019 Survey of Engineered Nanomaterial Occupational Health and Safety Practices ” in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 5, 2023

” Despite widespread use of plastics in healthcare, plastic is not benign One of the plastic industry’s favourite pro-plastic arguments is to say that their product is a health care hero. It also ignores some important facts when it comes to plastic’s impact on our health. This argument seeks to shut down the conversation.

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NRDC

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The House majority must do their job before people are forced to pay the price.

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Capaccio

JULY 7, 2022

Capaccio is keeping a pulse on the latest news out of OSHA granting the initial approval to the state of Massachusetts to move forward with a new occupational health and safety plan for both state and local government employers. Learn more in the OSHA Newsroom.

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Nanotech

MAY 1, 2023

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has published the latest edition of the Developments in Delegations on the Safety of Manufactured Nanomaterials and Advanced Materials — Tour de Table. developments on the human health and environmental safety of nanomaterials. The Tour de Table lists U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

The National Council on Safety and Health (COSH) has compiled a detailed database of work-related deaths in 2022. The weekend is in sight, spring is in the air, and there may be some time for a little R&R, even in the crush of chores, kids, and other family matters that need attention. It’s the highest fatality rate (3.6

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 20, 2023

Farmworkers face many hazards while performing the labor that props up the $1.264 trillion US food and farm economy, yet a new analysis by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) found that federal agencies focused on agriculture and health invested an average of only $16.2 The original conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

Industry is attempting some new tactics to undermine independent science and science-based decisionmaking at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). While these strategies are new, they are built upon the old foundations of the corporate disinformation playbook. Political leadership has never been marginalized at agencies.

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Environment + Energy Leader

MARCH 24, 2023

The derailment of two BNSF trains in Arizona and Washington state on the 9th of March are raising awareness of health and safety concerns on U.S The post Train Derailment Leads to Diesel Spill on Tribal Lands appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

EPA has just issued a rule tightening the air quality standard for PM 2.5 — the tiny particles most dangerous to health — from an annual average of 12 μg/m³ (micrograms per cubic meter) down to 9 μg/m³. The version of the rule that was just released has about 200 double-spaced pages analyzing the research on the health impacts of PM 2.5.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 25, 2022

As Thursday dawns, their work week is more than half over and some respite may be in sight. For others with different schedules, shifts, multiple jobs, or work that spills over into their so-called off-time, Thursday is just another day. But this upcoming week, Thursday, April 28, is not just another day. Too many worker deaths.

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Scientific American

APRIL 16, 2024

Reducing the need for car travel is better for health, the environment and public safety

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 24, 2023

Laboring outdoors on the front lines of the climate crisis, farmworkers face disproportionate impacts from extreme weather: recent research from the National Institutes of Health found agricultural workers are 35 times more likely to die from heat than other workers. And those are just the ones that have been reported.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

These risks aren’t hypothetical: A leak from a carbon dioxide pipeline already caused serious health harms in Satartia, Mississippi, where 45 people were hospitalized following a pipeline rupture in early 2020. Or perhaps you know it better as the gas that we breathe out and plants take in.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Safeguards for science in government decision-making are crucial to the health and safety of underserved communities — in fact, they are a matter of life or death. Public health decisions that fly in the face of scientific evidence exacerbate these long-standing inequities. Some have censored or intimidated the experts.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

As we’ve seen during the Omicron wave and throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccines can play a powerful role in protecting people’s health and safety and slowing the spread of infectious disease.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

We’re asking for a bill that reflects the president’s values by centering equity and racial justice; meeting the climate crisis head on; increasing access to healthy food; ending hunger; ensuring safety and dignity for food and farm workers; protecting farms and consumers; and ensuring the safety of our food supply.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 8, 2022

For automobiles, also a major cause of death and injury, research has helped lead to many safety requirements, including airbags, electronic stability control, safety belts and the LATCH child safety seat system. Comprehensive statistics on automobile safety have been collected since the 1960s. Cars vs. guns.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Long hours of work in the sun can result in fatigue, cramps, dehydration, heat stroke, and other health issues. In 2022 alone, cities in Arizona, California, Nevada , Texas , and Utah recorded temperatures of 105°F on multiple days and often over long stretches. California alone is estimated to have about 830,000 farmworkers.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 17, 2024

The draft policy addressed a concern that scientific integrity advocates raised regarding a provision that appeared in the model scientific integrity policy (which was developed by an interagency working group) and used by the Department of Health and Human Services and the National Institutes of Health in their draft policies.

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Energy & the Law

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Federal receivers must comply with state law and cannot abandon property if doing so would violate a state law reasonably calculated to protect public health or safety from immediate and identifiable harm. Securities and Exchange Commission v. The Heartland Group Ventures LLC et al.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Getting vaccinated against these illnesses is the smart thing to do, both for your own health and especially because it makes you a good neighbor helping to protect others from getting seriously ill, including older people or those who are immunocompromised. and the common cold. What’s going on with Florida?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 15, 2023

No one knows the hazards of a job better than the people who face them on every shift,” said Steve Sallman , director of the United Steelworkers (USW) Health, Safety and Environment Department, in a blog he wrote for UCS. “No However, many of these measures will take years to be implemented and workers need protections today.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 17, 2023

This gives patients and health providers full access to the drug until then, but these measures are woefully temporary and it is uncertain what access patients can expect to have to mifepristone in the weeks ahead. Because of that decision, patients’ ability to receive mifepristone through the mail now stands in jeopardy.

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Nanotech

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

On February 1, 2024, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) posted a NIOSH Science Blog item entitled “NIOSH Global Collaborations on Workplace Safety of Nanomaterials.”

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The climate crisis is a public health crisis, and it finally seems global leaders have recognized that fact. With the backdrop of the first-ever Health Day at the annual UN climate conference, air quality in Dubai soared, as PM2.5 The World Health Organization states the annual average concentrations of PM2.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 3, 2024

The triumph is that after decades of Sisyphean advocacy by public health groups and scientists, chrysotile asbestos, a known carcinogen, is finally facing an assorted set of deadline s for import and use in this nation. It should be clear that it is only a step, and therein lies the disgrace.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 18, 2023

Consumer Product Safety Commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. ignited the controversy last Monday when he said his agency, which regulates dangerous household products, should consider banning gas stoves because of the threat they pose to public health and the environment. At least one fossil fuel-friendly Democrat stoked the fire, too.

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AUGUST 19, 2022

The rule’s substance will show how serious the EPA is about its stated priorities of environmental justice, climate change, and worker and community safety. Nine years ago, President Obama issued an executive order asking federal agencies to modernize chemical safety rules in? When will companies be expected to comply with the rule?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 29, 2022

The current RMP rule needs urgent and long-overdue reform to prevent chemical disasters and protect human health and the environment. Facilities operating under this rule contain chemicals that are known to be dangerous to human health. In the aftermath, OSHA fined the facility , but also pointed out that the accident was preventable.

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Nanotech

APRIL 2, 2024

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Nanotechnology Research Center’s (NTRC) Field Studies Team (the Team) evaluates advanced materials and processes in workplaces ranging from large manufacturers, research and development labs, and government facilities, to schools, libraries, and other non-industrial settings.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 16, 2023

The Brightmark “plastics renewal” plant can’t get past the startup phase, as former employees raise environmental, health and safety concerns. Read the full story at Inside Climate News.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Last month, we sent a letter , signed by more than 500 public health experts and scientists, to the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and FDA calling on the agencies to support EPA’s efforts to strengthen these standards. It is critical that these agencies work together to protect public health from EtO exposure.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 13, 2021

House of Representatives Oversight Subcommittees launched an investigation into the safety of these weapons, requesting internal documents and product information from manufacturers. Despite the well-documented human health impacts of […].

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 17, 2024

But PFAS lobbyists show callous disregard for our health by continuing to stand in the way of necessary regulations. Lucy Grey, Public Health Inuit Research Advisor: “Accessing safe and uncontaminated country food is a matter of Inuit rights. Wildlife health is directly connected to Inuit health and well-being.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 15, 2021

That’s why UCS joined Earthjustice, United Steelworkers, National Council for Occupational Safety and Health (COSH) and 19 additional organizations last week to send a letter advocating for reforms to the Chemical Safety and Hazards Investigation Board (CSB) that would ensure the agency is […]. We think it can.

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