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Brian Joseph

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Once meek agency flexes its muscles, but likely to face pushback under Trump

Brian Joseph
December 21, 2016
The Consumer Product Safety Commission is trying to change its image, one civil penalty at a time. For decades, the federal agency largely was seen as a doormat with few resources and a toothless enforcement record. But over the past few years, under its chairman, Elliot Kaye, the CPSC has dramatically increased the penalties imposed on wayward companies, including multi-million dollar settlements with firms accused of failing to make timely disclosures of product hazards.
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Furniture tip-over deaths and injuries spur threat of federal action

Brian Joseph
October 10, 2016
The chairman of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission threatened Wednesday to hit furniture makers with mandatory federal rules if the industry doesn’t strengthen its voluntary standards to prevent its products from tipping over and killing children.
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FairWarning Reports

Growing momentum for self-driving cars worries safety advocates

Brian Joseph
June 3, 2016
On Valentine’s Day in Silicon Valley, one of Google’s experimental, self-driving cars sideswiped a city bus at 2 miles an hour. The incident marked the first time an autonomous car contributed to an accident on a public road, but did nothing to diminish the Obama administration’s enthusiasm for driverless vehicles.
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ambulance
A FairWarning story

Recycling is a feel good activity, but not for workers hurt or killed on the job

Brian Joseph
April 12, 2016
Darkness had enveloped the Newell Recycling yard by the time Erik Hilario climbed into a front-end loader on a cold evening in January 2011. Just 19 years old, Hilario, an undocumented immigrant, had followed his father from Mexico to an industrial park in East Point, Ga., near Atlanta, where they worked as low-skilled laborers amid jagged piles of scrap metal bound for the smelter.
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FairWarning Reports

Dueling labels seek to anoint products free of toxic chemicals

Brian Joseph
March 1, 2016
Internet entrepreneur and branding consultant Amy Ziff says she had to become a “weekend toxicologist” five years ago when she discovered her twins were allergic to diapers, baby wipes, creams and lotions.
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truck

Critics fault new highway law for concessions to trucking industry

Brian Joseph
December 9, 2015
A $305 billion highway bill approved by Congress and signed by President Obama last week includes several provisions aggressively sought by the trucking industry that, critics say, will undermine traffic safety.
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Big trucks, big bucks

Heavy-spending trucking industry pushes Congress to relax safety rules

A FairWarning Story
Brian Joseph
November 10, 2015
Big rig crashes kill nearly 4,000 Americans each year and injure more than 85,000. Since 2009, fatalities involving large trucks have increased 17 percent. Injuries have gone up 28 percent. Given these numbers, you might expect Congress to be agitating for tighter controls on big rigs.
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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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A FairWarning story

Study: Cancer risk high for firefighters, but higher for minority firefighters

Brian Joseph
June 3, 2015

Posted with permission from Fairwarning.org: A new study has found that firefighters have a greater than average risk of developing some types of cancer, and that black and Latino firefighters face the highest risk of all.


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