Tag: asbestos
10,000 Palestinians buried beneath Gaza’s rubble as families dig by hand
With more than 10,000 bodies still trapped under the ruins of Gaza, families search with shovels and bare hands while aid agencies warn that recovery could take years amid explosives, disease, and ongoing destruction.
US bans asbestos after decades of industrial resistance
The chlor-alkali industry, which utilizes asbestos in diaphragms for chemical synthesis, is now compelled to transition towards safer alternatives.
Tell Johnson & Johnson to take responsibility for asbestos in their...
Johnson & Johnson must be held accountable for their failure to disclose that asbestos was found in their products.
Johnson & Johnson knew for decades there was asbestos in its...
The company "fretted over the problem and how to address it while failing to disclose it to regulators or the public."
EPA is failing to protect school children from asbestos, internal watchdog...
"Without compliance inspections, the EPA cannot know whether schools pose an actual risk of asbestos exposure to students and personnel."
ALEC’s deadly asbestos agenda benefits Koch Industries, Nationwide
Instead, Koch and its allies are working hard to pass laws that run out the clock.
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US workers average 10 paid vacation days a year, and 33 million get none
Twenty-five OECD countries require employers to provide at least 20 days. The US legal minimum is zero, and 57 percent of the lowest-paid tenth of workers get no vacation at all.
Chris Hedges and Albert Raboteau on ‘American Prophets’ importance in an age of radical...
Watch the two thinkers talk about Raboteau’s book, which discusses the work of religious figures such as Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Justice Department drops multiple corporate crime investigations
A reported decision to abandon several major corporate crime cases has raised concerns that the federal government is easing pressure on corporate misconduct.
The Mexicanization of the United States
The destruction caused by neoliberalism is global. The patterns of economic, social, cultural and political assault that Mexico has suffered are afflicting countries from Greece to the United States. Only a worldwide anti-capitalist resistance movement will save us.
The dark and sinister ideology driving Elon Musk’s actions
The stakes are higher than they’ve ever been, and their power as elected officials sworn to uphold the Constitution is far greater than an unelected billionaire’s artificial power as Donald Trump’s hatchet man.