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Better Guidelines for Funding Transit Projects
Yesterday, US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood proposed new guidelines that would make it easier for worthwhile new public transit projects to receive federal funding. Back in 2005, the Bush administration issued budget restrictions requiring that...
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Thu, Jan 14 2010 7:51 AM
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North Carolina to get new State Lab. Hope it isn’t a public health hazard.
by revere, cross-posted from Effect Measure Congratulations, North Carolina. You are getting brand new $52 million facility for your State Public Health Laboratory and Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, each in separate wings of a 220,000 square foot...
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Wed, Feb 17 2010 6:23 AM
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Labor Secretary announces regulatory priorities for worker health and safety
Last week Labor Secretary Solis released in the Federal Register on April 26, 2010, her Spring 2010 regulatory agenda for the Department, including her rulemaking priorities for MSHA and OSHA. As required by the Regulatory Flexibility Act it was published...
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Tue, May 04 2010 5:26 PM
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As We Rush To Protect the Gulf Coast Environment, are Responders Being Protected?
We’re delighted to welcome journalist Elizabeth Grossman as a new writer for The Pump Handle. Elizabeth Grossman is the author of Chasing Molecules: Poisonous Products, Human Health, and the Promise of Green Chemistry, High Tech Trash: Digital Devices...
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Fri, May 14 2010 11:45 AM
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Using Facebook to react to MSHA chief’s latest on Massey investigation
I can’t keep up with Ken Ward Jr.’s coverage of the trouble brewing, battle, strong difference of opinion between Secretary Hilda Solis/MSHA Asst. Secretary Joe Main and the United Mine Workers (UMWA), family members of deceased coal miners...
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Fri, May 07 2010 3:27 PM
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Green Jobs and You, Perfect Together
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is currently soliciting comments on the definition they will use in measuring green jobs, the industry list of green jobs, or any other aspect of the information provided in the Notice of solicitation of comments published...
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Fri, Apr 16 2010 11:56 AM
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The flu pandemic: the last time and the next time
by revere, cross-posted from Effect Measure We are now almost through the period considered to be the traditional flu season (to the end of March in the temperate northern hemisphere) and so far the amount of documented influenza infection is at a relatively...
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Wed, Mar 24 2010 5:54 AM
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Lights in dark corners: what the new science of epigenetics is revealing about cancer prevention
By Paul Whaley and Dr John Newby, PhD; cross-posted from Health & Environment To understand the importance of the new science of epigenetics for health, we have to visit cell development and the cellular processes which, if they go wrong, lead to...
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Wed, Mar 17 2010 10:04 AM
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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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Lesson #1: Don’t hang up on Ken Ward Jr
The Charleston Gazette’s Ken Ward Jr. caused my jaw to drop several times this morning with his story ”Mine hailed as model of safety faces federal probe.” At the Patriot Coal company’s Federal No. 2 mine—the underground...
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Tue, Feb 23 2010 12:28 PM
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Asbestos: Cover Up of a Century
During National Asbestos Disease Awareness Week (April 1-7), we’ll be cross-posting a piece every day from the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization. By Kenneth A. Cook, Co-founder and President, Environmental Working Group; cross-posted from Asbestos...
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Sat, Apr 03 2010 11:13 AM
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NIOSH scientists say political pressures inhibit them from ‘controversial’ research
The Pump Handle is pleased to provide the full text of an article, published in the Bureau of National Affairs’ “Occupational Safety & Health Reporter,” on SKAPP’s Scientists in Government project report.* by Stephen Lee A...
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Sat, Apr 03 2010 12:51 PM
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When an OSHA “national” emphasis program isn’t
I’ve been following the news coverage of the catastrophe at the Tesoro refinery in Anacortes, Washington (here, here, here, here). Mr. Daniel Aldridge, 50, Mr. Darrin J Hoines, 43, Ms. Donna Van Dreumel, 36, Mr. Matt Bowen, and Ms. Kathryn Powell...
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Sun, Apr 04 2010 10:21 AM
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Perplexed by OSHA’s latest reg agenda
Beginning in December 2006, I’ve written five blog post commenting on the content of the Department of Labor’s (DOL) regulatory agenda for worker health and safety rulemakings. Most of my posts [see links below] have criticized the Labor Secretary...
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Tue, May 04 2010 5:09 PM
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Puzzled by MSHA’s latest reg agenda
As I noted in “Perplexed by OSHA’s reg agenda,” I’ve made a habit of commenting on the content of the Dept of Labor’s semi-annual regulatory agenda [see links below]. I’ll be the first to admit that our system for protecting...
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Wed, May 05 2010 4:45 PM
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