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Multiple safety failures identified in chemical explosion

By Jim Morris

A new report on a 2008 explosion at a West Virginia pesticide factory offers a chilling account that raises questions about safeguards at th

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Chemical that killed thousands in Bhopal finally abandoned by U.S. producer

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Quarter-century after Bhopal, a deadly chemical’s U.S. production to end

By Jim Morris

25 years after Bhopal, U.S. plant still using same toxic chemical

By M.B. Pell and Jim Morris

Surrogates for their agenda

By Alexander Cohen

Senate bill aims to tighten regulation of oil spill dispersants

By Chris Hamby and Jim Morris

Reacting to health worries about chemical dispersants used in the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Democratic Sen. Frank Lautenberg intro

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Internal e-mails suggest doctoring of oil spill information by White House

By Laurel Adams

After oil spill cleanup, mystery surrounds oil remaining in Gulf

By Laurel Adams

BP spill report underscores government complacency

By Aaron Mehta

$163 million spent on oil pollution research — with no coordination

By Laurel Adams

25 years after Bhopal, U.S. plant still using same toxic chemical

By M.B. Pell and Jim Morris

Earlier this week, seven former executives of Union Carbide India Ltd. were convicted of “death by negligence” and sentenced to two-year jai

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Multiple safety failures identified in chemical explosion

By Jim Morris

Chemical that killed thousands in Bhopal finally abandoned by U.S. producer

By iWatch News

Quarter-century after Bhopal, a deadly chemical’s U.S. production to end

By Jim Morris

Surrogates for their agenda

By Alexander Cohen

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Renegade Refiner: OSHA says BP has “systemic safety problem”

By Jim Morris and M.B. Pell

Two refineries owned by oil giant BP account for 97 percent of all flagrant violations found in the refining industry by government safety i

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BP to pay $13 million for safety violations at Texas refinery

By Alice Su

Sen. Franken asks BP to explain OSHA violations

By Jim Morris

Regulatory flaws, repeated violations put oil refinery workers at risk

By Jim Morris, Chris Hamby and M.B. Pell

OSHA urged to get tough with BP in $90 million fine negotiations

By M.B. Pell

Expert: New toxic chemicals report “unprecedented”

By Jim Morris

In a new report, the President’s Cancer Panel emphatically reinforced what public health officials and activists have been saying for decade

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'Chemicals of concern' list stuck at OMB

By Chris Hamby and Jim Morris

New scrutiny of worker safety excludes some chemical plants

By Chris Hamby

EPA agrees to reveal secret identities of potentially risky chemicals

By Chris Hamby

California's 'safe' workplaces include employers with spotty records

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Local officials say they’re in the dark on dangerous freight rail traffic

By Jim Morris

Sixty-two cities in the United States have been deemed “high threat urban areas” by the Department of Homeland Security, meaning they’re sus

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Buffett’s new company sure knows how to lobby

By Matthew Lewis

Winter ends for the high-speed rail lobby

By Matthew Lewis

Senate prepares for new battle over chemical plant security

By Jim Morris

Financial reform moves forward, with many loopholes

By Rachel Leven and Maria Zilberman

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Quarter-century after Bhopal, a deadly chemical’s U.S. production to end

By Jim Morris

The last major U.S. producer of the chemical that killed thousands in Bhopal, India, 26 years ago – and was nearly released in a 2008 explos

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Multiple safety failures identified in chemical explosion

By Jim Morris

Chemical that killed thousands in Bhopal finally abandoned by U.S. producer

By iWatch News

25 years after Bhopal, U.S. plant still using same toxic chemical

By M.B. Pell and Jim Morris

As soda tax bubbles up, food lobby mobilizes

By Christine Spolar and Joe Eaton

Congressman says 10-mile policy on iodine pills is irresponsible

By Jeremy Borden

The nuclear crisis in Japan has renewed a decade-long fight over how many Americans would receive iodine pills in the aftermath of a nuclear

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Nine states don’t deploy radiation safeguards

By John Aloysius Farrell and Laurel Adams

A science panel's curious end

By Marina Walker Guevara

Food safety labs may not have capacity to handle a crisis like Japan's

By Aaron Mehta and Laurel Adams

Radiation panel fairness questioned

By Jim Morris, Brendan McGarry and Marina Walker Guevara

Early in crisis, Senator helps nuclear industry sway colleagues on safety

By Ronnie Greene

The U.S. industry’s powerful lobbying arm has wasted no time quietly making its case to Congress — with a little help from Sen. Jeff Bingama

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Nuclear miscalculation: Why regulators miss power plant threats from quakes and storms

By Susan Q. Stranahan

Court clash in Vermont might alter balance of power over nuclear plants

By Mark Clayton / MinnPost.com

U.S. regulators opening up on flawed nuclear power plant policing

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A more likely nuclear nightmare

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Republican duo supported by energy industry seek to rein in EPA on coal ash

By Kristen Lombardi

Two recipients of congressional campaign dollars from the energy industry seek to stymie environmental protections on coal ash. Their method

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IMPACT: Environmental groups sue EPA over lack of coal ash regulation

By Emma Schwartz

IMPACT: House committee limits EPA ability to regulate coal ash

By Evan Bush

Democrats join fight against coal ash regulation

By Kristen Lombardi

Dispute in Pennsylvania town highlights EPA's coal ash dilemma

By Amy Biegelsen

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