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Harvey: What Will OSHA Do?

August 30, 2017 Jordan Barab

The rain finally seems to be stopping in Texas, but the struggles there are just beginning as the huge job…

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Doubt Grows Concerning ATF Conclusion that West Fertilizer Fire was Deliberately Set

August 2, 2017 Jordan Barab

Sometimes blogging is like shouting into the wind. All you hear are echos of your own voice. Then silence. But,…

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Dispatches From the Front Lines Of Worker Safety and Health: Short Stuff

August 2, 2017 Jordan Barab

EPA Suffers From Shortage of Common Sense: Attorneys General from 11 states — New York, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts,…

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

July 19, 2017 Jordan Barab

“We need to be protecting our workers as much as protecting our shores.” So says former OSHA head Dr. David…

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EPA, Climate Change and Regulatory Certainty

July 4, 2017 Jordan Barab

A federal appeals court has blocked EPA’s delay of its methane pollution rule. The court says that the reasoning EPA…

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EPA: “A Corporate Takeover of the Agency”

July 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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Save Harwood, War on Workers, War on the Earth: This Week’s Short Stuff

June 30, 2017 Jordan Barab

Save Harwood, Save Workers: The Trump Administration’s plan to scrap the Susan Harwood Worker Training Grant program has been getting…

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California Makes Major Move to Protect Refinery Workers (and communities in their shadow)

June 20, 2017 Jordan Barab

It’s not all bad news out there. While Washington sucks workers down into an abyss of corporate anarchy, the State…

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EPA “Reconsiders” Whether to Protect Communities Surrounding Chemical Plants

June 14, 2017 Jordan Barab

But as the ….government has promoted the sector’s rapid growth, it has struggled with its impact on the environment. The…

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

June 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…