• info@workplacefairness.org
Facebook-f Instagram Linkedin Twitter Youtube
Donate Now

EPA

Trump’s EPA announces new plan to save the coal industry. Experts say it won’t.

Leave a Comment / Coal Mining / By

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on Wednesday one of President Donald Trump’s biggest efforts yet to rescue coal, even as projections show the industry in a downward spiral largely due to market forces rather than policy. The agency unveiled the long-awaited Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule, designed to repeal and replace the Obama-era Clean …

Trump’s EPA announces new plan to save the coal industry. Experts say it won’t. Read More »

Court Orders EPA To Implement Chemical Plant Safety Rule

Leave a Comment / OSHA / By

In a stinging rebuke to the Environmental Protection Agency, a federal court has called EPA’s delay in implementing the Obama administration’s chemical disaster rule “arbitrary and capricious” and told the agency to implement the rule. EPA had argued that delaying the rule would reduce industry confusion while it figured out whether it wanted to modify …

Court Orders EPA To Implement Chemical Plant Safety Rule Read More »

EPA reportedly ‘distorted’ meeting notes and workers could be more vulnerable to pesticide exposure

Leave a Comment / Agriculture / By

In November 2017, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency met with several groups representing farmworkers to talk about three provisions of the worker protection rules to make farming safer. Organizers walked away feeling like there was some consensus between the groups, even though there was more work to be done on these issues. But when the …

EPA reportedly ‘distorted’ meeting notes and workers could be more vulnerable to pesticide exposure Read More »

Corporate America’s Stealth Campaign to Stop Worker and Environmental Protections

Leave a Comment / OSHA / By

Admit it. If they could, Trump and most Republicans would like to just get rid of OSHA, EPA the Consumer Product Safety Commission and any other agency — or law — that protects workers, consumers or the environment. This is all part of Steve Bannon’s goal of “deconstructing the Administrative State” — making sure that …

Corporate America’s Stealth Campaign to Stop Worker and Environmental Protections Read More »

Environmental groups sue EPA for failing to protect farmworkers from pesticide exposure

Leave a Comment / Farm Workers / By

The delay also prevents the agency from setting an age requirement prohibiting young farmworkers from applying such pesticides. The lawsuit argues that the Trump administration’s decision to postpone the effective date for implementation of the Certification of Pesticide Applicators (CPA) rule could lead to adverse harmful health issues for farmworkers and other people. That revised …

Environmental groups sue EPA for failing to protect farmworkers from pesticide exposure Read More »

Trump’s rollback of environmental rules will fail to bring back coal, report says

Leave a Comment / Coal Mining / By

“Can Coal Make a Comeback?” asks a new report by Columbia University researchers. Spoiler alert: In its first few pages, the report states that President Donald Trump will almost certainly fail to bring jobs back to coal country or dramatically boost coal production. Rolling back environmental regulations, as the Trump administration frantically sought to do during its …

Trump’s rollback of environmental rules will fail to bring back coal, report says Read More »

Unionized Scientists March in Protest of Attacks on Science and Jobs

Leave a Comment / unions / By

Of all the attacks on our civil society, the attacks on evidence-based science pose perhaps the greatest existential threat. Decisions being made about climate science and environmental protection at this critical time will shape the future of our planet. Advances in research are produced by the twin pillars of dedicated scientists and an activated citizenry …

Unionized Scientists March in Protest of Attacks on Science and Jobs Read More »

Leaked Trump administration plan to close Chicago EPA office puts 1,000 jobs at risk

Leave a Comment / EPA / By

President Donald Trump’s proposed cutbacks to the Environmental Protection Agency may include the closure of the agency’s regional office in Chicago, a move that could undermine the agency’s ability to monitor pollution in the Great Lakes and curtail its ability to implement enforcement actions against coal-fired power plant owners in the six-state region. The workforce …

Leaked Trump administration plan to close Chicago EPA office puts 1,000 jobs at risk Read More »

New EPA head takes action—delaying a mining clean-up rule

Leave a Comment / EPA / By

In one of his first acts of business, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt directed his new staff to delay a initiative that would require mining companies to prove they can clean up after themselves. The order would require companies to prove they will be able to clean up the damage caused by routine mining …

New EPA head takes action—delaying a mining clean-up rule Read More »

New Congress on Track to Block Long-Sought Workplace and Public Health Protections

Leave a Comment / workplace safety / By

An estimated 10,000 Americans die from asbestos-caused diseases each year, a figure that’s considered conservative. Asbestos is no longer mined in the United States but it still exists in products here, perpetuating exposure, especially for workers in construction and other heavy industries. In June 2016, after years of debate, the country’s major chemical regulation law …

New Congress on Track to Block Long-Sought Workplace and Public Health Protections Read More »

Copyright © 2023 Workplace Fairness, All rights reserved.

Facebook-f Instagram Linkedin Twitter Youtube
Scroll to Top

Madeline Messa

Madeline Messa is a 3L at Syracuse University College of Law. She graduated from Penn State with a degree in journalism. With her legal research and writing for Workplace Fairness, she strives to equip people with the information they need to be their own best advocate.

  • “New York, NY”