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Liz Borkowski is a Research Associate at the George Washington University School of Public Health's Department of Environmental and Occupational Health. She lives in Washington, DC and loves public transportation and pumpkin empanadas.
Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH is a Professorial Lecturer at the George Washington University School of Public Health's Department of Environmental and Occupational Health. She also spent a decade working for the US Department of Labor, and has served on the teams investigating the 2006 Sago mine disaster and 2010 Upper Big Branch mine disaster for the state of West Virginia.
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December 21, 2007
Who's Looking After the Cooks' Lungs?
Category: Regulation
OSHA? No. It's Andrew Schneider and his colleagues at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. In "Flavoring Additive Puts Professional Cooks at Risk," the reporter describes a study commissioned by the newspaper to determine how much of the butter-flavoring agent diacetyl becomes airborne when used in...
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Friday Blog Roundup
Category: Blog roundup
With so much attention focused on the energy bill, it’s easy to forget some of the other important legislation coming out of Congress these days. Revere at Effect Measure reports on the NIH and CDC funding figures in the latest...
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Looking for caskets instead of holiday gifts
Category: Safety
The families of the workers killed at the T2 Lab are now planning memorial services instead of holiday celebrations. "With Christmas next week, we're not shopping for gifts--we've got to go look at caskets," said a relative of Parrish Ashley, 36, one of...
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December 20, 2007
EPA Administrator Ignores Law, Science, and Consistency
Category: Regulation
EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson has denied California’s petition to limit greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks—against the advice of technical and legal staff, reports the Washington Post’s Juliet Eilperin. Governor Schwarzenegger says his state will sue over the decision,...
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Tony Mazzocchi Book Events in DC
Category: Occupational Health & Safety
The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor: The Life and Times of Tony Mazzocchi is one of the Pump Handle’s top book recommendations this year (here’s an excerpt, to whet your appetite). On Monday January 7th, the book’s author,...
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December 19, 2007
Explosion Kills 4 Workers at Florida Lab
Category: Safety
Updated 12/20: See below Four workers were killed and at least 14 people were injured in a violent explosion at the T2 Labs in Jacksonville, Florida. The firm manufacturers Ecotane®, the gasoline additive "methylcyclopentadienyl manganese tricarbonyl" (i.e., MMT® or MCMT), which increases the octane rating...
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Energy Bill: a little good news for public health
Category: Environmental Health
The "Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007" (H.R. 6) has passed the House and Senate, and is making its way to President Bush for a signing ceremony today at DOE headquarters. Richard Simon of the Los Angeles Times reports that...
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Occupational Health News Roundup
Category: Occupational Health & Safety
Nurses, construction workers, and cleaning industry employees have some new resources available to them: The American Nurses Association launched a “Safe Staffing Saves Lives” website to help nurses become advocates for safe levels of staffing in hospital units (via Occupational...
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December 18, 2007
Asking Too Much of Pigs and Bees - and Workers and Waterways
Category: Environmental Health
Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma, writes in the latest New York Times Magazine about two stories that “may point to an imminent breakdown in the way we’re growing food today.” The first is the rise of community-acquired MRSA...
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