Jim Morris
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Washington, DC, United States
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Big Oil's Black Mark on California's Climate Record
The state's oil regulator has the dual burden of facilitating oil development while protecting the environment and public health. Can it do both? → Read More
Death in the Trench
Jim Spencer suffocated under a pile of dirt in Nebraska — a grim reminder of the weakness of America’s worker-safety law.. → Read More
'The Fear of Dying' Pervades Southern California's Oil-Polluted Enclaves
As the state wins praise for its progressive climate policies, refinery emissions vex people in low-income communities. Things may get worse. → Read More
Ford spent $40 million to reshape asbestos science
Since 2001, Ford has spent nearly $40 million on consultants to defend lawsuits filed by former brake mechanics with cancer → Read More
Report underlines recent worker hazards at old weapons plants
A compensation program for former workers at Energy Department sites assumes safety improved significantly after 1995. That may not be true. → Read More
Commentary: The Unseen Toll of Workplace Disease in America
Guns take more than 30,000 lives in America each year. But there’s a less-visible, even deadlier scourge that’s been mostly lost in an era of mass shootings and terrorism scares: work-related illness, which kills 50,000 annually, according to the best government estimate. Hundreds of thousands more are sickened by job-related exposures to toxic substances. Continue reading → Read More
Ailing, angry nuclear-weapons workers fight for compensation
Critics say U.S. program to compensate sick nuclear-weapons workers relies on bad data and is too quick to reject claims. → Read More
Recipe for journalistic impact: Time, dogged analysis and human contact
What matters most to the reporter behind 'Breathless and Burdened'? Giving voice to the voiceless. → Read More
Recipe for journalistic impact: Time, dogged analysis and human contact
What matters most to the reporter behind 'Breathless and Burdened'? Giving voice to the voiceless. → Read More
'Sweeping reforms' proposed for black lung benefit program
Legislation introduced Tuesday aims to address injustices in the federal compensation program for victims of the deadly lung disease → Read More
Murmurs of change at the troubled EPA civil-rights office
The EPA has announced plans to make its Office of Civil Rights more responsive to discrimination claims. → Read More
Report: cause for 'alarm' on possible work-related causes of breast cancer
A report by the Breast Cancer Fund says a review of studies by an expert panel makes a case for occupational causes of the disease. → Read More
Report: cause for 'alarm' on possible work-related causes of breast cancer
A report by the Breast Cancer Fund says a review of studies by an expert panel makes a case for occupational causes of the disease. → Read More
After 44 years, halting progress on workplace disease
Hindered by court decisions, the White House and Congress, OSHA's war on health hazards has faltered. → Read More
The impenetrable world of Mark Flores
For three decades of her son's life, Yvette Flores assumed his developmental problems were merely bad luck. Then she learned otherwise. → Read More
Slow-motion tragedy for American workers
An epidemic of work-related disease in America is the predictable result of a bifurcated system of hazard regulation → Read More
On Workers' Memorial Day 2015, an appeal to control toxic substances
Work-related disease kills far more people in the U.S. and other countries than traumatic injury. → Read More
Much room for improvement in flawed black lung benefits program, audit finds
A growing case backlog, staff shortages and other problems are hampering the federal system designed to compensate black lung victims. → Read More
Chairman of 'grossly mismanaged' Chemical Safety Board resigns
Under pressure from the White House and Congress, Rafael Moure-Eraso announced his resignation Thursday evening. → Read More
Special issue of journal looks at fracking's effects on people, animals
The Journal of Environmental Science and Health has devoted its current issue to the potentially harmful side of the drilling boom. → Read More