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Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Battle for Workplace Safety: Short Stuff

November 15, 2018 Jordan Barab

OSHA: The Incredible Shrinking Agency: The number of OSHA inspectors has hit an all-time low according to data compiled by…

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Dispatches from the Front Lines of Workplace and Environmental Safety: Short Stuff

October 18, 2018 Jordan Barab

The High Price of Clean Rooms: Thousands of Marriott hotel workers are on strike in 23 hotels in Detroit, Boston,…

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Dispatches From the Front Lines of the Battle for Workplace Safety: Short Stuff

September 20, 2018 Jordan Barab

“They Treat Us Like Mules”: “They will break you down and then throw you away.” That’s what construction worker Ernesto…

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Court Orders EPA To Implement Chemical Plant Safety Rule

August 17, 2018 Jordan Barab

In a stinging rebuke to the Environmental Protection Agency, a federal court has called EPA’s delay in implementing the Obama…

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Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Battle for Workplace Safety: Short Stuff

August 15, 2018 Jordan Barab

Poison Food, Poisoned Workers: Eyal Press of The Intercept writes about chronic health problems that have plagued Jessica Robertson since…

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“Types” of Racism in the United States Today

August 13, 2018 Jordan Barab

As the nation’s capital was about to be overrun by more than two dozen American Nazis yesterday, President Trump issued…

Agriculture Deconstructing the Administrative State Environmental Protection Agency Regulations and Standards

“Stop Poisoning Children and Farm Workers” Court Tells EPA

August 9, 2018 Jordan Barab

Every day we read about how EPA or OSHA announced their intention to roll back this protection, or failed to…

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Scott Pruitt: RIP

July 5, 2018 Jordan Barab

MARLEY was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed…

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Arkema Chemical Plant Investigation Results in Weak CSB Recommendations

May 30, 2018 Jordan Barab

The Chemical Safety Board released its report on the Arkema chemical incident last week. You may recall that during the…

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EPA Proposes to Rescind Obama Chemical Plant Protections; Puts Residents At Risk

May 21, 2018 Jordan Barab

Five years after a catastrophic ammonium nitrate explosion in West, Texas killed 15 persons, destroyed much of the city, and…