The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a consent judgment ordering an Auburn, N.Y., commercial laundry and its owner to compensate an employee who was fired for filing a complaint with OSHA about potentially unsafe conditions at the 46 South Lewis St. laundry.
The Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers (AHAM) issued a press statement in which it applauds Congress on assembling a final stimulus bill which will provide $300 million to fund the Energy Efficient Appliance Rebate Program.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is challenging electronics retailers and television manufacturers to increase the collection and responsible recycling of discarded TVs, according to a recent press release.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) invites the public to submit creative projects to the 3rd annual Rachel Carson intergenerational “Sense of Wonder” contest, the agency announced in a recent press release. There are four categories: photography, essay, poetry and dance. Dance is a new category this year.
OSHA has proposed $302,000 in fines against Sunfield Inc. in Hebron, Ohio, for alleged violations of federal workplace safety standards including three willful, 21 serious and one repeat.
Reps. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Peter King (R-NY), and Michael McMahon (D-NY) have reintroduced legislation to address what Maloney’s office called in a press release “the health crisis” caused by the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. H.R. 847, the “9/11 Health and Compensation Act,” would provide medical monitoring and treatment for those exposed to toxins released by the collapse of the World Trade Center towers. The bill would also provide compensation for economic losses due to illnesses or injuries caused by the attacks.
U.S. Rep Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, has introduced legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives that will “undo EPA regulations weakening toxic reporting requirements that have been in place for nearly two decades,” according to a press statement issued by his office.
U.S. Rep. George Miller (D-CA), chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, Rep. John Barrow (D-GA), and Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-CA), chair of the Workforce Protections Subcommittee, reintroduced legislation to prevent workplace explosions timed with the anniversary of the Imperial Sugar refinery disaster in Port Wentworth, Ga., which killed 14 workers and injured dozens. The day prior to the bill being reintroduced, six workers were injured when a coal dust collector at a power plant in suburban Milwaukee exploded while it was being cleaned, according to a news release issued by the Workforce Protections Subcommittee.
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