health and safety
Worries mount on oil spill health effects
June 4, 2010As oil washes up on Florida beaches, scores of cleanup workers are falling ill.
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Oil cleanup workers fight back against BP
June 2, 2010Workers struggling to stem the oil flow on the Gulf Coast are falling ill and some are filing class actions suits against BP.
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Cheney blasted for blocking oil well safety valve
May 4, 2010Women who have spent their lives fighting oil company pollution and profiteering denounced Dick Cheney and the company he once headed for their role in the oil spill spreading across the Gulf of Mexico.
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Obama at miners’ memorial asks ‘How can we fail them?’
April 27, 2010"How can a nation that relies on its miners not do everything in its power to protect them?" the president said to the thousands at Sunday's memorial in Beckley, W.Va.
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Far-right Massey CEO pal runs for Congress
April 20, 2010Former West Virginia Judge Eliott Maynard is enlisting Tea Party backing for his campaign to unseat miner-friendly Democratic Rep. Nick Rahall.
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