Farm Bill Drops OSHA Language that Would Have Endangered Chem Plant Workers
Workers in chemical facilities and those living nearby can sleep easier after the US Congress declined to include language in…
Weekly Toll: Human Statistics Who Won’t Be Coming Home
A list of a few of the workers in this country who died on the job last week.
Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Battle for Workplace Safety: Short Stuff
Your job or you unborn child. Your job or your bladder. Your job or your life. These are the choices…
Cheer Up: More Bad News
The sorry attempt to place Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court isn’t the only bad news depressing us here at…
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Workplace Violence
Dispatches From the Front Lines of the Battle for Workplace Safety: Short Stuff
“They Treat Us Like Mules”: “They will break you down and then throw you away.” That’s what construction worker Ernesto Rivera…
Agriculture
Brett Kavanaugh
Deconstructing the Administrative State
Enforcement
Environmental Protection Agency
Short Stuff
Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Battle for Workplace Safety: Short Stuff
Poison Food, Poisoned Workers: Eyal Press of The Intercept writes about chronic health problems that have plagued Jessica Robertson since she began…
Agriculture
Deconstructing the Administrative State
Environmental Protection Agency
Regulations and Standards
“Stop Poisoning Children and Farm Workers” Court Tells EPA
Every day we read about how EPA or OSHA announced their intention to roll back this protection, or failed to…
US to Workers Killed on Small Farms: We Don’t Care
SOUTH SIOUX CITY, NE — A man who suffered severe burns when a grain elevator exploded in South Sioux City…
House Farm Bill Threatens Chemical Plant Safety
Last week, the House of Representatives narrowly passed the Farm Bill. And a little noticed sentence in this this gigantic…
USDA Lets Foxes Guard The Hog House
The US Department of Agriculture has always struggled to balance a split personality: on one hand it’s supposed to “Provide…