Despite the recession and recent cutbacks in some benefit programs, companies continue to add wellness and health management programs to promote healthier behaviors among their workers, according to a new survey by Watson Wyatt, a global consulting firm, and the National Business Group on Health (NBGH), an association of more than 300 mostly large employers.
DuPont and Lucite International Inc. have agreed to pay a $2 million civil penalty to settle Clean Air Act violations at a sulfuric acid plant in Belle, W. Va., EPA, the U.S. Justice Department, and the state of West Virginia announced yesterday.
General Motors continues its work to reduce the environmental impact of its worldwide manufacturing operations, according to a press statement from the company.
After a thorough scientific review ordered in 2007 by the U.S. Supreme Court, EPA issued a proposed finding last Friday (April 17) that greenhouse gases contribute to air pollution that may endanger public health or welfare, according to an EPA press statement.
Responding to the sentencing of the first of four N.J. executives of the Birmingham, Ala.-based McWane Corp. in Federal District court, Change to Win Health and Safety Coordinator Eric Frumin urged Congress to make “fundamental changes in the federal Occupational Safety and Health Act” that created OSHA in 1970.
Many U.S. healthcare facilities are not prepared to protect healthcare workers from exposures to pandemic influenza, according to a new report compiled by six major labor unions and the AFL-CIO. At more than 104 health care facilities nationwide, a “pandemic flu preparedness survey” was administered over the course of 2008 to determine the level of worker safety and health preparedness on a facility basis.
A January inspection of the Fieldale Farms Poultry LLC processing plant in Gainesville, Ga., has resulted in the agency proposing two repeat violations with $27,500 in proposed penalties, 18 serious violations with $45,775 in proposed penalties, and two other-than-serious violations with no monetary penalties.
With Earth Day only a few days away, the EPA is kicking off the 2009 “Change the World, Start with Energy Star” campaign to educate kids and their families about how to save money and fight climate change through energy efficiency.
On April 18–20, 2009, EPA will hold the 5th Annual National Sustainable Design Expo, which will display new sustainable or green technologies. More than 40 college teams and other exhibitors from across the country will show their innovative solutions for an environmentally sustainable future, including generating ethanol from coffee production wastewater, embedding small glass spheres in house paint to deflect heat in the summer, and the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to maximize prairie switch grass ethanol yield.
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