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EPA: “A Corporate Takeover of the Agency”

Jul 2, 2017 Jordan Barab

We read the painful stories in the Sunday papers so you don’t have to. Today a story about the corporate…

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Why Workers Wait So Long For OSHA Standards (And How Trump Is Making It Worse)

Jun 13, 2017 Jordan Barab

Attached here is an article I wrote for Law 360 about OSHA’s painfully slow process for issuing standards that protect…

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Industry calls EPA Proposal to Ban Bathtub Stripper a “Blatant and raw power grab”

Jun 12, 2017 Jordan Barab

Seventeen workers dying between 2000 and 2015 isn’t enough to convince the methylene chloride industry that more is needed than…

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Dead in a Bathtub at 21

Jun 10, 2017 Jordan Barab

On April 28, while thousands of Americans were commemorating Workers Memorial Day, 21 year old Kevin Hartley was hard at…

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Industry Petitions OSHA to Reopen Silica Standard

May 17, 2017 Jordan Barab

Representatives of the construction industry, as well as general industry have petitioned Labor Secretary Alex Acosta to reopen the silica standard,…

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Legal Does Not Mean Safe: The Fate of Chemical Protections for Workers in the Trump Era

Apr 10, 2017 Jordan Barab

The fact that most OSHA chemical standards are old, outdated and don’t protect workers very well is something that government,…