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The EPA has proposed the first Clean Air Act standard for carbon pollution from new power plants.

A massive and highly visible construction project that was outsourced in China is helping kick off a national "Should Be Made in America" campaign by the Alliance for America Manufacturing (AAM).

OSHA has cited janitorial services company ServiceMaster Clean with one willful and four serious safety violations for failing to protect workers from lead exposure and other hazards while they were contracted to clean an indoor firing range in Lancaster.

Would you watch out for my safety? Discover 5 reasons people will want to watch out for your safety and the safety of others Monday, June 4 session 502 at www.safety2012.org in Denver, CO.

The U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) says that federal inspectors issued 253 citations and orders during special impact inspections conducted at 15 coal mines and two metal/nonmetal mines last month.

A nationwide network of consumer groups is mobilizing against BP's bid to use expenses related to the Deepwater Horizon accident and oil spill as tax deductions.

The American Industrial Hygiene Association® (AIHA) has developed a Korean translation of IHSTAT, the multi-language, data interpretation statistical package that computes descriptive statistics, determines if the distributions are normal or log normally distributed, and calculates associated confidence limits on the mean and the tolerance limits of the distribution.

A tunnel accident that resulted in injuries to two workers has earned a NY contractor citations for 11 serious violations of workplace safety standards.

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is asking the construction industry to help advance the science behind spray polyurethane foam (SPF) insulation.