safety
“La Bestia” victims call for immigration reform
July 27, 2015Hernández lost his left leg and arm and part of his right hand when he fell from the top of a moving freight train while trying to reach the U.S. - he was desperate.
Read moreWill damaged vessel put the freeze on Shell’s Arctic drilling?
July 14, 2015This incident offers further vindication for what environmentalists have been saying all along: that accidents are unavoidable in this ecologically sensitive region.
Read moreD.C. council committee OKs nurse safe-staffing bill
July 10, 2015"Nurse-to-patient ratios is sound public policy, raising the bar for public safety."
Read moreVigil held for explosion victims as criticism of oil trains broadens
July 7, 2015Held by 350.org and the Sierra Club, the event marked the two-year anniversary of the disaster, the Lac-Megantic, Quebec, oil train explosion that killed 47 people.
Read moreCoal industry win is temporary, fate of plants still in air
June 30, 2015A divided Supreme Court ruled against the Obama administration's attempt to limit power plant emissions of mercury and other hazardous air pollutants.
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