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OSHA seeks to reduce exposure to highly useful, highly toxic metal
The metal beryllium is an engineer’s dream: Lightweight yet strong, capable of handling harsh environments underwater and out in space.It’s also a medical nightmare. Minute amounts of its dust and...
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Drunk on power: Booze distributors ply statehouses to keep profits flowing
Rhinegeist Brewery invested $250,000 in trucks and employees to bring its beers into Kentucky, just a few miles from its fledgling brewery in downtown Cincinnati.Sales boomed in the “thirsty” Kentucky...
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Report: cause for 'alarm' on possible work-related causes of breast cancer
A new summary of the science makes a strong case for occupational links to breast cancer and calls on Congress, regulators and researchers to pay more attention to chemical exposures and other risk...
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In Republican debate, little talk about big money
Super PACs running presidential shadow campaigns? Nary a word.“Dark money” nonprofits pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into politics? Nada.Seventeen Republican presidential candidates — 10 in a...
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Thirteen years and counting: anatomy of an EPA civil rights investigation
SANTA FE, New Mexico— On June 26, 2014, Deborah Reade got a certified letter from the Environmental Protection Agency that was nearly a decade in the making.“During the course of the EPA’s...
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Candidates without a clue
If folks who watched Thursday night’s Republican presidential debate were expecting the candidates to tell us what they’d do to replace Obamacare if they could get rid of it, those folks would have...
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In California, an unsatisfying settlement on pesticide-spraying
OXNARD, California– It was the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s first and only preliminary finding of discrimination in a civil rights case. The agency saw it as a clear victory for people like...
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Civil Rights and the environment plus money in politics
An environmental front in Civil RightsJim Morris and his team on the environment beat have delivered an epic package on the failure of the Environmental Protection Agency to fulfill its mission to...
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Medicare Advantage plans padded charges on home visits, whistleblower says
A new whistleblower case accuses a Texas medical consulting firm and more than two dozen health plans for the elderly of ripping off Medicare by conducting in-home patient exams that allegedly...
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Ohioans to vote on marijuana legalization in November
A controversial measure to legalize marijuana in Ohio will go before voters this fall.Ohio’s elections chief on Wednesday confirmed the measure would make the Nov. 3 ballot, approving the signatures...
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'They figured our neighborhood is black, so they'll do it'
SYRACUSE, New York— Aggie Lane made her neighborhood’s pitch on July 11, 2005. Flanked by eight colleagues from the Partnership for Onondaga Creek, a citizens’ voice for the south side of Syracuse, New...
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Federal Election Commission finally names top lawyer — sort of
After 767 days without anyone leading its legal department, the Federal Election Commission has a new top lawyer.Sort of.Daniel A. Petalas, associate general counsel for enforcement, will serve a...
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Residents of Ohio town see 'environmental justice' as empty promise
EAST LIVERPOOL, Ohio– When President Bill Clinton deemed environmental justice an administration priority 21 years ago, Alonzo Spencer felt an odd sensation: optimism.The steel-mill crane operator...
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Center punches above its weight in journalism awards
Punching above our weightThe Center has a history of punching above its weight in the rich field of journalism awards in the United States. Last year’s Pulitzer for the Breathless and Burdened package...
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The marijuana legalization movement begins in the states
This project was produced by News21, a national investigative reporting project involving top college journalism students across the country and headquartered at the Walter Cronkite School of...
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Colorado profits, but still divided on legal weed
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States find their own path on medical marijuana policy
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Health insurers working the system to pad their profits
One of the reasons the health insurance industry worked behind the scenes in 2009 and 2010 to derail Obamacare was the fear that changes mandated by the law would cut their Medicare Advantage profits....
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High expectations for business of marijuana
As marijuana prohibition falls in one state after another, cannabis sales are shifting from street corners to storefronts as opportunists line up to cash in on what optimists say is the biggest...
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Growers look for sustainability in resource heavy weed industry
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