Trump’s Dangerous “Gold Standard” for Science
Under threat: scientists’ independence to do research and tell the truth; public health science; and science at universities Likely outcome:…
Trump Pardons Another Toxic Chemical
The Trump administration is on a crusade to deregulate toxic chemicals. These substances are so harmful that they landed on…
Republicans Work to Gut Toxic Chemicals Law: Bad for People, Worse for Workers
Tracking the activities of President Trump and his people makes me feel like I am standing in the path of…
Donald Trump’s Mad Love of Coal Versus the Miners Who Pay for It with Their Lives
This past April, President Donald J. Trump issued one of the wackiest, fact-challenged and ineffective executive orders of his second…
Appeals Court Opens the Way—Someday—to OSHA Regulation of Ergonomics
In an important, but almost un-noticed opinion last month, the federal Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (covering Michigan,…
Heat Dome Covers the Right Half of the Country
I am an environmental lawyer who came to the challenge of ensuring worker safety and health midway through my career.…
Trench Death: Bright Red State, Deep Blue Prosecution
Texas has the second largest percentage of Latinx voters in the country. Yet despite Donald Trump’s deep-seated racism toward brown…
As Election Nears, Teamsters Still Refuse to Endorse Harris
For the first time in three decades, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters announced that it would not endorse a presidential…
MAGA Plans to Capture the Civil Service
Soon after James Garfield was inaugurated in 1881, a disgruntled job seeker shot him at the train station in Washington,…
Coping with Hot
The planet is migrating toward heat waves too intense for humans to survive. In July 2024, scientists logged the four…