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Summer Heat Is Coming: Will New Policies Protect Workers?

Union of Concerned Scientists

That’s why this week, my colleague Juan Declet-Barreto and I were pleased to accept an invitation from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Office of the Assistant Secretary to attend a special event highlighting the administration’s efforts on labor and extreme heat. Here’s my expanded, four-point answer.

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'Badly Broken' Bayer postpones split to improve performance

Corp Watch

Total Penalties $794,315,508 (April 6, 2021) Number of Records 131 Books A Growing Concern: Protecting the Food Supply in an Era of Pharmaceutical and Industrial Crops (Union of Concerned Scientists, December, 2004). Application of Biotechnology for Functional Foods (Pew Initiative on Food & Biotechnology, May 2007).

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Roundup lawsuit: Bayer ordered to pay Pa. man $2.25B after jury finds weed killer caused cancer

Corp Watch

Total Penalties $794,315,508 (April 6, 2021) Number of Records 131 Books A Growing Concern: Protecting the Food Supply in an Era of Pharmaceutical and Industrial Crops (Union of Concerned Scientists ,December, 2004). Application of Biotechnology for Functional Foods (Pew Initiative on Food & Biotechnology, May 2007).

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Monsanto ordered to pay $857 million to Washington school students and parent volunteers over toxic PCBs

Corp Watch

Total Penalties $794,315,508 (April 6, 2021) Number of Records 131 Books A Growing Concern: Protecting the Food Supply in an Era of Pharmaceutical and Industrial Crops (Union of Concerned Scientists ,December, 2004). Application of Biotechnology for Functional Foods (Pew Initiative on Food & Biotechnology, May 2007).

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BP projects have helped fund Azerbaijan military aggression, say campaigners

Corp Watch

In the early 2000s, BP attempted to re-brand itself as climate-friendly oil company by suggesting that its initials stood for “Beyond Petroleum.” This initiative was quietly dropped after the Texas city explosions. Green Words, Dirty Deeds: A PIRG Expose of BP Amoco's Greenwashing by Athan Manuel of the U.S.

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Bayer ordered to pay $1.56 billion in latest US trial loss over Roundup weedkiller

Corp Watch

Total Penalties $794,315,508 (April 6, 2021) Number of Records 131 Books A Growing Concern: Protecting the Food Supply in an Era of Pharmaceutical and Industrial Crops (Union of Concerned Scientists ,December, 2004). Application of Biotechnology for Functional Foods (Pew Initiative on Food & Biotechnology, May 2007).

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Bayer must pay $1.25 million in Roundup cancer trial, jury finds

Corp Watch

Total Penalties $794,315,508 (April 6, 2021) Number of Records 131 Books A Growing Concern: Protecting the Food Supply in an Era of Pharmaceutical and Industrial Crops (Union of Concerned Scientists ,December, 2004). Application of Biotechnology for Functional Foods (Pew Initiative on Food & Biotechnology, May 2007).