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Category: Unequal Risk

Workers in America face risks from toxic exposures that would be considered unacceptable outside the job — and in many cases are perfectly legal.

Posted inUnequal Risk

Three families vowed to stop a killer chemical. Here’s how they did it.

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins May 16, 2023May 16, 2023

A bathtub. A floor. A bike. The items Kevin Hartley, Drew Wynne and Joshua Atkins had been working on at the time of their deaths less than 10 months apart varied, but what cut their lives short was the same: a chemical in paint strippers and other products sold in stores nationwide. This story also […]

Paint strippers are displayed on a shelf in a hardware store.
Posted inUnequal Risk

The EPA wants to broaden a ban on a deadly chemical on store shelves

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins April 26, 2023April 26, 2023
Posted inUnequal Risk

EPA restricts sales of deadly paint strippers after years of delays

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins March 15, 2019January 6, 2023
paint stripper safety
Posted inUnequal Risk

Restrictions on deadly paint strippers near the finish line

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins January 8, 2019January 28, 2022
Posted inUnequal Risk

Some paint strippers are killing people. The EPA promised to act — but hasn’t.

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins December 14, 2018January 6, 2023
Posted inUnequal Risk

Lowe’s says it will stop selling deadly paint removers

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins May 29, 2018January 6, 2023
Posted inUnequal Risk

Methodology of Unequal Risk investigation

by The Center for Public Integrity May 29, 2018January 6, 2023
Posted inUnequal Risk

Reversing course, the EPA will regulate a deadly paint stripper

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins May 10, 2018January 6, 2023
Posted inUnequal Risk

Members of Congress to EPA: Act now on deadly chemical

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins March 29, 2018January 6, 2023
Posted inUnequal Risk

The EPA planned to ban a deadly paint-stripping chemical. Will it follow through?

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins March 26, 2018January 6, 2023
Posted inUnequal Risk

EPA wants to restrict sometimes-deadly paint stripper chemical

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins January 12, 2017January 6, 2023
Posted inUnequal Risk, Worker Health and Safety, Workers’ Rights

Commentary: Update of Toxic Substances Control Act a worthy step that’s long overdue

by Jim Morris May 27, 2016January 7, 2022
Posted inWorkers’ Rights

Dying depositions

by Jie Jenny Zou March 28, 2016January 28, 2022
Posted inWorkers’ Rights

Length of depositions not widely regulated

by Jie Jenny Zou March 28, 2016January 28, 2022
Posted inWorkers’ Rights

Forty-two years later, OSHA OKs rule protecting workers from silica

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins March 24, 2016January 28, 2022
Posted inWorkers’ Rights

Compensation program for sick nuclear workers plagued by problems, ombudsman finds

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins March 21, 2016January 28, 2022
Posted inWorkers’ Rights

Report underlines recent worker hazards at old weapons plants

Avatar photo by Jim Morris and Jamie Smith Hopkins January 7, 2016January 28, 2022
Posted inWorkers’ Rights

Commentary: The unseen toll of workplace disease in America

by Jim Morris December 23, 2015January 28, 2022
Posted inWorkers’ Rights

Upended by America’s ‘third wave’ of asbestos disease

by Jim Morris, Maryam Jameel and Eleanor Bell Fox December 17, 2015January 6, 2023
Posted inUnequal Risk

Ailing, angry nuclear-weapons workers fight for compensation

Avatar photo by Jim Morris and Jamie Smith Hopkins December 11, 2015January 6, 2023
Posted inUnequal Risk

Disease victims often shut out of workers’ comp system

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins November 4, 2015January 6, 2023
Posted inUnequal Risk

Common solvent keeps killing workers, consumers

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins September 21, 2015January 6, 2023
Posted inWorkers’ Rights

‘Samsung is to blame’ for cancers

Avatar photo by Sandra Bartlett September 11, 2015February 20, 2019
Posted inWorkers’ Rights

Report: cause for ‘alarm’ on possible work-related causes of breast cancer

by Jim Morris August 6, 2015January 28, 2022
Posted inWorkers’ Rights

OSHA seeks to reduce exposure to highly useful, highly toxic metal

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins August 5, 2015January 28, 2022
Posted inUnequal Risk, Worker Health and Safety, Workers’ Rights

How government, business and labor can better protect workers

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins and Maryam Jameel July 6, 2015January 7, 2022
Posted inUnequal Risk

After 44 years, halting progress on workplace disease

by Jim Morris July 6, 2015January 6, 2023
Mark smiles at his mother as she brushes his hair. They're in the bathroom, posters in the background.
Posted inUnequal Risk

The impenetrable world of Mark Flores

by Jim Morris July 1, 2015January 6, 2023
Posted inWorkers’ Rights

In his own world: Legacy of a toxic workplace

by Maryam Jameel July 1, 2015January 28, 2022
Posted inUnequal Risk

Slow-motion tragedy for American workers

Avatar photo by Jim Morris, Jamie Smith Hopkins and Maryam Jameel June 29, 2015January 6, 2023

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