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Amazon Workers’ COVID-19 Workplace Safety Lawsuit Dismissed
On November 2, 2020, Judge Cogan of the U.S. District for the Eastern District of New York dismissed the amended complaint of workers at Amazon’s Staten Island JFK8 fulfillment center (“JFK8”) against their employer over its alleged non-compliance with state and federal public health guidance and law during the COVID 19 pandemic. Continue reading
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Exploring the E-Suite with Elizabeth Anderson, Ph.D., Fellow ATS, Chief Science Officer and Senior Fellow, Exponent, Inc.; formerly, Carcinogen Assessment Group and Office of Health and Environmental Assessment, U.S. EPA
I led the health sciences assessment work for the first 14 years after U.S. EPA was formed in December 1970. At the time, U.S. EPA was a very small agency. I was the only health scientist in an eight-person Office of Technical Analysis, reporting directly to U.S. EPA’s first Administrator, Bill Ruckelshaus. Continue reading
and Rodenticide Act, Bill Ruckelshaus, Carcinogen Assessment Group, Carcinogen Assessment Group and Office of Health and Environmental Assessment, Chief Science Officer, Clean Air Act, Clement Associates, Distortion of scientific foundations and fact to achieve economic or political gain is deplorable and should be rejected, Dr. Roy Albert, Earth Day, Elizabeth Anderson, Exponent, Federal Insecticide, Federal Water Pollution Control Act, Fungicide, Health risk assessment, honest science, Inc., mechanism of action, National Academy of Sciences, prove safety, public health protection, Radiation Authorities, RCRA, science as applied to public health protection, Sciences International, Synthetic Organic Chemistry, The Red Book, toxic tort litigation, U.S. EPA, U.S. EPA Alumni Association, zero-risk tolerance carcinogen -
Exploring the E-Suite with Jonah Greenberger, Co-founder and President, Bright, Inc. (San Francisco, CA, and Mexico City, Mexico)
Exploring the E-Suite with Jonah Greenberger, Co-founder and President, Bright, Inc. (San Francisco, CA, and Mexico City, Mexico) Continue reading