Stuart Silverstein

Stuart SilversteinFairWarning Assistant Editor Stuart Silverstein is a veteran reporter and editor who worked on the business, metro and national news staffs of the Los Angeles Times. He covered, among other beats, organized labor, economics and higher education. During his 32-year newspaper career, Stu also worked for dailies in Dallas, Atlanta and Buffalo. Stu has taught business journalism at USC. When he isn’t chasing stories, Stu enjoys seeing foreign films, studying foreign languages, working out and swimming. And he is interested in anything having to do with his hometown, Buffalo, N.Y.

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Johnson & Johnson hit with $4.69 billion loss in baby powder-ovarian cancer case

Myron Levin Stuart Silverstein
July 13, 2018
The legal assault on Johnson & Johnson and its signature baby powder reached new heights today, when a state court jury in Missouri found the company responsible for the ovarian cancers of 22 women, and ordered the drug and consumer products giant to pay $4.69 billion in compensatory and punitive damages to the cancer victims or their survivors.
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California
A FairWarning story

California throttles down pollution from small engines

Stuart Silverstein
November 14, 2017
New California rules aimed at curbing the surprising amount of pollution coming from leaf blowers, lawn mowers and other small gas-powered machines cleared a final hurdle Monday, and are set to take effect on Jan. 1. The requirements mark another step in the state’s long-running battle to reduce emissions from a category of small engines that have come to rival cars as a source of smog-forming pollution.
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autumn
A FairWarning story

Noisy, but that’s not all

Leaf blowers flagged as prodigious polluters -- and possible health threat
Stuart Silverstein Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
September 20, 2017
Five years after starting his first job with a landscaping crew in the suburbs of Seattle, Fredi Dubon decided he had enough and called it quits. The work days were long, sometimes 12 hours, but a bigger problem was having to inhale exhaust from his gas-powered leaf blower.
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OSHA

OSHA’s Wall of Shame

With limited staff, agency targets 'Severe Violators'
Paul Feldman Stuart Silverstein
December 19, 2016
Soon after beginning their cleanup of a fume-filled tanker car at an Omaha, Neb., rail maintenance yard, Adrian LaPour and Dallas Foulk were dead. An explosion that April 2015 afternoon trapped LaPour in a flash fire inside the car and hurled Foulk out the top to his death.
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money
A FairWarning.org story:

Swarms of drug industry lobbyists and campaign cash stymie bid to restrain Medicare prescription costs

Stuart Silverstein
October 21, 2016
When the Republican-controlled Congress approved a landmark program in 2003 to help seniors buy prescription drugs, it slapped on an unusual restriction: The federal government was barred from negotiating cheaper prices for those medicines. Instead, the job of holding down costs was outsourced to the insurance companies delivering the subsidized new coverage, known as Medicare Part D.
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train
A FairWarning story

For big railroads, a carload of whistleblower complaints

Stuart Silverstein Brian Joseph
October 21, 2015
As both a veteran railroad worker and union official responsible for safety, Mike Elliott became alarmed when he learned of trouble-plagued train signals in his home state of Washington. Signals, he said, at times would inexplicably switch from red to yellow to green – potentially creating confusion that could lead to a crash. Elliott raised that and other signal issues repeatedly with his managers at BNSF Railway Co.
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