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Reaction to OSHA testimony on PAWA
The subcommittee on Workforce Protections of the House Education and Labor Committee heard testimony today on the “Protecting America’s Workers Act” (PAWA) (H.R. 2067) from OSHA assistant secretary David Michaels. In the Obama/Solis’...
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Tue, Mar 16 2010 11:15 AM
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Nevada Rep. offers bill to improve OSHA State Plan program
Congresswoman Dina Titus (D-NV) introduced the “Ensuring Worker Safety Act” designed to ensure that the federally-(partially)-funded State agencies that run their own OSH programs are at least as effective as federal standards enforcement...
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Tue, Mar 16 2010 8:24 AM
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UCLA (employer) vs Cal-OSHA
On the heels of Ben Elgin’s Business Week story yesterday about employers failing to comply with rules for reporting worker injuries, it appears large public sector employers have trouble obeying the law as well. The LA Times is reporting that the...
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Mon, Mar 15 2010 1:55 PM
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The Katrina chronicles: Formaldehyde-laced trailers set to claim another set of victims
by Richard Denison, PhD, cross-posted from EDF Blog The Washington Post ran a front-page article Saturday, written by Spencer Hsu, which reported the auction sale by FEMA of most of the 120,000 notorious formaldehyde-tainted trailers it had purchased...
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Mon, Mar 15 2010 7:00 AM
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Environmental Protection Agency
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Chemicals Policy
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Cancer
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Reproductive health
DC Environmental Film Fest Starts March 16th
Our DC-readers should check out the many offerings of the annual Environmental Film Festival, which will run from March 16-28. This year, food is a major theme, and the festival’s press release highlights several films about the challenges of feeding...
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Fri, Mar 12 2010 5:39 PM
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Environmental Health
Wherever I look, whistleblower issues abound
I think the ghost of Tony Mazzocchi is haunting me. Every day for the last 10 days, I’ve been presented with narratives, videos, testimony and phone calls about the workers who are compelled or forced to become whistleblowers. It started with a...
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Thu, Mar 11 2010 6:55 PM
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A Bureaucratic Assault on CalOSHA Staff
By Jack Oudiz Pump Handle readers may recall the “Exit Interview” I posted here in June 2009 upon my retirement from Cal/OSHA after nearly 25 years of service. In that letter, I testified about the many ways that Cal/OSHA was failing to carry out its...
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Thu, Mar 11 2010 5:04 PM
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Flu vaccines, herd immunity and randomized trials
by revere, cross-posted from Effect Measure The latest study on flu vaccine effectiveness in children has been well discussed in the MSM and the flu blogs, so I’ll point you to those excellent pieces (Branswell, crof, Mike Coston at Avian Flu Diary...
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Thu, Mar 11 2010 6:32 AM
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Influenza
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Chamber of Commerce and their snowstorm excuse
Yesterday OSHA announced a 15-day extension on the due date to submit comments on its proposed changes to the OSHA 300 injury/illness log. In the agency’s Federal Register notice, OSHA says it: “received requests from several entities, including...
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Wed, Mar 10 2010 3:11 PM
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Better Stoves for Better Health
Two recent articles (via the Above the Fold newsletter) have encouraging news about the respiratory and climate problems caused by polluting stoves used in much of the developing world. In Environmental Health Perspectives, Tina Adler focuses on a new...
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Wed, Mar 10 2010 1:25 PM
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Environmental Health
A Year Later, What’s Happening with the Scientific Integrity Memo?
Exactly one year ago, President Obama issued a memorandum on scientific integrity that gave the Office of Science and Technology Policy 120 days to “develop recommendations for Presidential action designed to guarantee scientific integrity throughout...
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Tue, Mar 09 2010 12:54 PM
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Systematising the evidence base: a key strategy for bringing more environmental health science into clinical practice and public health policy
By Paul Whaley As a society we could do much better at incorporating environmental health science into clinical advice and policy recommendations. Take formaldehyde: In the early 1980s multiple studies in rats were showing that exposure to formaldehyde...
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Tue, Mar 09 2010 7:18 AM
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Environmental Health
Agenda available for Latino Action Summit on Worker Health and Safety
Earlier this week, I wrote about the countdown on OSHA’s website to the National Action Summit for Latino Worker Health and Safety (April 14-15) but noted the paucity of information about the what will actually occur at the event. I’m pleased...
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Fri, Mar 05 2010 3:33 PM
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Federal No. 2 Coal Mine: Hilda Solis and Joe Main speak
by Ken Ward Jr., cross-posted from Coal Tattoo After she visited Patriot Coal’s Federal No. 2 Mine in Monongalia County, W.Va., last year, Obama Labor Secretary Hilda Solis couldn’t say enough about the operation, its great labor-management relations...
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Fri, Mar 05 2010 6:16 AM
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OSHA Listens
Today, OSHA is holding “a public meeting to solicit comments and suggestions from OSHA stakeholders on key issues facing the agency.” Judging by the event web page, OSHA thinks one of the key problems to address is the inexcusable fact that...
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Thu, Mar 04 2010 7:39 AM
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