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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.
February 27, 2009
Category: Blog roundup
Bloggers have lots of thoughts on Obama’s budget: Merrill Goozner at GoozNews gives us the big picture Maggie Mahar at Health Beat explores the challenges of the budget’s approach to healthcare Ezra Klein explains how it addresses the question of...
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Category: Regulation
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued a decision this week on legal challenges to OSHA's 2006 rule to protect workers from exposure to hexavalent chromium. In the simpliest terms, Public Citizen's Health Research Group and the Steelworkers argued that...
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Category: Nanotechnology
The latest piece from Rick Weiss at Science Progress is a must-read for anyone concerned about the safety of nanotechnology. Weiss attended a conference sponsored by the Food and Drug Law Institute where lawyers provided advice about avoiding nanotech-related lawsuits, and learned...
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February 26, 2009
Category: Safety
Last August 28, Bill Oxley and Barry Withrow, 45 were working at the Bayer CropScience’s plant in Institute, WV when a massive fireball erupted in an area where methomyl for the carbamate insecticide thiodicarb (Larvin) is produced. Mr. Withrow was killed immediately in the blast, and Mr. Oxley died...
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Category: Occupational Health & Safety
By a vote of 80-17, the Senate on Tuesday confirmed Hilda Solis as the 25th Secretary of Labor. The Department of Labor’s website has posted photos of her arrival at agency headquarters. Solis served in Congress from 2001-2009, representing California’s...
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February 25, 2009
Category: Environmental Health
A week after President Obama signed the stimulus bill into law, the Department of Housing and Urban Development has allocated $10 billion of its funding. The agency’s press release explains why the speed was possible: The funding announced today is...
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Yesterday, the Institute of Medicine warned that employment-based health insurance coverage is eroding, and that the safety net (clinics and emergency rooms that provide charity and uncompensated care) won’t be able to handle the demand from the uninsured. IOM’s new...
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February 24, 2009
Category: Occupational Health & Safety
(Updated 3/2/09 below) The U.S. economy is in the tank----the national unemployment rate for January was 7.6% and 46 States are facing serious budget shortfalls-----but these hard times are NO EXCUSE to roll-back worker safety protections. Yet, that is exactly what some Kentucky...
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Category: Confined Space @ TPH
On Sunday in China’s Shanxi Province, an explosion rocked a coal mine where 436 people were working underground. Seventy-four of the workers died, and 114 were hospitalized with carbon monoxide poisoning. The New York Times’ Edward Wong puts this terrible...
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February 23, 2009
by revere, cross-posted from Effect Measure DemFromCT continues his public health series over at DailyKos, thus also continuing to make my early week blogging easier. This week is a brief look at this year's flu season, already in full swing,...
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