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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.
November 26, 2008
Category: Occupational Health & Safety
Nearly 1,300 people have been killed in the Mexican city of Juarez so far this year, and journalists are among those targeted by the mafia. On November 13, Armando Rodriguez, a 40-year-old reporter for El Diaro de Juarez, was gunned...
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November 25, 2008
We've mentioned before that the Obama administration will soon be focusing on developing new approaches to consumer-product safety. It's worth remembering some of the solutions that have been proposed over the past couple of years, as high-profile problems with contaminated...
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November 24, 2008
Category: Regulation
Labor Secretary Chao issued her semi-annual regulatory today, listing allegedly the Department's "regulations that have been selected for review or development during the coming year." It all might seem kind of pointless (given that she won't have a say after Jan 20)...
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November 21, 2008
Category: Blog roundup
The big news in Congress this week is that Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) has replaced John Dingell (D-Mich.) as chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee – a move likely to have big implications for national climate policy, as...
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Category: Occupational Health & Safety
A three-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments today about OSHA's rule on hexavalent chromium. OSHA issued the rule in February 2006, after this same Court of Appeals instructed the Agency in December 2002 to...
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Category: Regulation
An underground coal miner who works in eastern Kentucky took the next step in his legal battle to force the Secretary of Labor to reduce respirable dust levels in our nation's coal mines. It started in March 2008 when Scott Howard of Lechter County, KY...
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November 20, 2008
Category: Occupational Health & Safety
Forty years ago today, a series of explosions ripped through the No. 9 Mine in Farmington, West Virginia and killed 78 workers. For nine days, families and friends of trapped miners waited in the hope that some of the miners...
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Category: Safety
Mr. Rosaulino Montano, 46, an employee of Engineered Construction Products of Smithsburg, MD fell seven stories to his death on Tuesday, Nov 18 on the campus of my workplace, the George Washington University (GWU). Mr. Montano was installing windows at a $75 million residence hall under...
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November 19, 2008
Category: Occupational Health & Safety
Our regular readers are well aware of the product defense tactics pioneered by the tobacco industry and taken to a new level by manufacturers of other dangerous products. Hazards magazine has just put out a new article about a manganese...
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Category: Occupational Health & Safety
by revere, cross-posted at Effect Measure A congressionally mandated independent panel of scientists has just issued a report verifying what many of us have know since the early 1990s. Gulf War Syndrome (GWS) is real:...
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