President Biden is directing the labor officials in his administration to draft a set of rules that businesses would have to follow during extreme heat - a regulation advocates have increasingly clamored for as a warming climate raises new risks for workers.
Florida’s 2 million outdoor workers — more than 20 percent of its workforce — will be at greater risk of losing their lives and $8.4 billion in total annual earnings.
It's clear that extreme heat is a hazard to lives and livelihoods, even indoors, but job sites have haphazard rules, if any, to deal with it. That's due in part to the fact that there is no national workplace safety standard for heat.
If the Biden administration ends up creating solar jobs for hundreds of thousands of Americans, who will train the workers? What might at first seem an inconsequential question has become a Washington power struggle with consequences for the president's energy agenda.
A remote fishing region will soon be flooded with seasonal workers. The hospital is equipped for only four COVID-19 patients and its chief operating officer is out of a job after emailing a coronavirus conspiracy meme. Welcome to Dillingham, Alaska.
As meatpackers rush to meet demand, their employees are starting to get COVID-19. But some workers say they’re going to work ill because they don’t have paid sick days and can be penalized for staying home.
A recent study has found out that the types of indoor contaminants greatly impact the chemistry of the indoor air at the workplace and affect the workers.
It is becoming ever clearer how profoundly the climate crisis is changing everything, and how imperative it is that we act now if we hope to avert an existential disaster.
Wildfire smoke isn't great for anybody, but a new rule California regulators vote on today recognizes that it's particularly dangerous for workers while they're on the job.
An out-of-work Blackjewel employee filed a class action lawsuit Tuesday alleging the bankrupt company violated federal labor law by failing to notify or compensate hundreds of workers before closing down
The Government Accountability Office finds difficult to understand documents may keep ill workers at Hanford nuclear reservation from getting refiled claims approved.
A petition filed by a Los Alamos worker has been in limbo for 10 years. At the Savannah River Site, a petition has lingered for 11 years. At Sandia National Laboratories, workers have been waiting seven years for a final decision.
The manufacturing plant responsible for PFAS-coated fast food packaging pumps out loads of a banned ozone-depleting compound along with "forever chemicals."
