safety
ATU: “A Common-Sense Bus Safety Proposal”
August 26, 2015Putting intercity bus drivers under federal overtime pay laws would raise their pay, lower their fatigue, and cut fatal bus crashes and deaths.
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Rail workers score big safety win in California
August 26, 2015Rail unions have been pushing for two-person crews while rail carriers have been pushing for just one, an engineer.
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First tar sands mine to open for business in Utah
August 21, 2015"It's heartbreaking. It's impossible to reclaim and rehabilitate the land once they do what they are planning to do with it."
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Here’s why close collaboration between NSA and AT&T matters
August 20, 2015New disclosures about the NSA's partnership with AT&T could reignite constitutional challenges to the spy agency's efforts to wiretap the Internet.
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OSHA proposes cutting worker exposure to beryllium by 90 percent
August 19, 2015Beryllium is a heavy metal whose inhalation causes a chronic lung disease and may lead to lung cancer.
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