On Sunday, March 31, The New York Times published a dramatic indictment of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Written by Ian Urbina...
Category: EPA
On Sunday, March 31, The New York Times published a dramatic indictment of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Written by Ian Urbina, the story revealed OSHA to be essentially powerless in dealing with working conditions that threaten workers' health and lives. Much of the story dealt with Royale Comfort Seating in North Carolina, and its unwillingness to stop using a dangerous chemical known as n-propyl bromide, or nPB.
Dean Starkman, who runs The Audit, the business-news section of the Columbia Journalism Review, found the series "magisterial" and "a great example of agenda-setting public-interest reporting of a kind that, sad to say, is becoming increasingly scarce among mainstream business news outlets...
14Aug 2012
Science Times reports that the EPA is now beginning to tackle some of the toughest toxic waste sites on its to-do list, sites that are such a mess that the agency is not sure how to proceed.
What interested me about the story,...
Science Times reports that the EPA is now beginning to tackle some of the toughest toxic waste sites on its to-do list, sites that are such a mess that the agency is not sure how to proceed.
What interested me about the story, a solid piece of reporting by Anthony DePalma that does a good job of recapping the history of Superfund clean-up legislation, is that it's a local story--very unusual for the Times, and especially for Science Times. The story leads with efforts to clean up the Passaic River, in New Jersey not far from New York City, and talks about efforts to clean up the Hudson River, the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, and Newtown Creek on the Queens-Brooklyn border. (That last one is so local I've never heard of it, and it's probably five miles from here.)
...
...
The Times's big series on natural gas recovery with the help of hydraulic fracturing of deep shale formations turned from evidence of lax regulation and potentially serious pollution hazards to a deeper and, for these eyes, more engrossing topic today: reporter...
Robert McClure, erstwhile...
Robert McClure, erstwhile Seattle Post-Intelligencer environment writer and now a mainstay of the non-profit InvestigateWest news agency in Seattle, has a disturbing barn-burner of a story out. Only it's not about barns, but about barn owls disappearing, and much more. It's getting picked up in many outlets including, at brief glance, the Seattle Times, Scientific American, and San Francisco Chronicle.
The story is about a new class of "super-toxic" rat poisons and the havoc they may be causing in nature, and among people as well....
©2010 Knight Science Journalism at MIT. All Rights Reserved.