Note to Journalists: This is not a FREAK work accident.

Hundreds of workers are killed every year getting trapped in machinery. There are #OSHA standards to prevent workers from getting trapped in machinery.

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LA Considers Safety Rules To Combat Rising Silicosis Rates laist.com/news/la-city-s…

Thanks to students and faculty Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Boston College who heard me talk last week about 'The Cancer Factory,' which lays bare one of America's worst outbreaks of occupational disease.
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Over 20% of people w/ #multiplesclerosis wait more than year to receive their diagnosis. That's a problem. Check out my latest commentary for Public Health Watch about the delays & what we can do. National MS Society #MS
You’re fine.’ Why Delays in MS Diagnosis Matter publichealthwatch.org/2024/03/28/you…

New, district-level maps from Public Health Watch & Texas Community Health News: Texas lawmakers and the uninsured they represent. #TheHoldouts publichealthwatch.org/2024/03/26/tex…

Rep. Dade Phelan, who's facing a runoff, has made health care a priority as Texas House speaker. But he hasn't supported Medicaid expansion.

Back in his district—House District 21—the needs for affordable health care are high.

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EPA Gives 'Minor' Polluters a Free Pass publichealthwatch.org/2024/03/25/epa…

Wilhelm Hueper, a DuPont scientist ostracized in the 1930s for talking frankly about chemicals and cancer, knew the score: 'The only thing [corporations] understand is jail and bad publicity.' Read more: beacon.org/The-Cancer-Fac…

During and immediately after World War II, Niagara Falls, NY, was an industrial powerhouse. But the boom had a dark side: The chemical plants that flocked to the city for cheap hydropower left behind a legacy of death and disease. Read more: beacon.org/The-Cancer-Fac…

The Cancer Factory: A Book Review. By Jim Morris

When chemical companies put profits over workers' lives.

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via Jordan Barab

In his final days, bladder-cancer victim Joe Nicastro was punctured by tubes and suffered extreme diarrhea and nausea. Lawyers for #DuPont , which made the carcinogen Joe worked with for decades, tried to blame anything but the chemical for his agony. beacon.org/The-Cancer-Fac…

In 2021, Goodyear’s CEO made $21.4 million. Ray Kline – octogenarian, bladder-cancer survivor and loyal Goodyear employee in Niagara Falls for 39 years – made $13 an hour delivering auto parts. Read Ray’s story in “The Cancer Factory.”
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And here's a link to the book:
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Rod Halford’s introduction to bladder cancer came one day in 1992, when his toilet bowl filled with blood as he was urinating. His life was forever changed. He's among at least 78 workers from the Goodyear plant in Niagara Falls to develop the disease. Per “The Cancer Factory.”

The Goodyear plant in Niagara Falls was a two-headed beast. On one side, vinyl chloride, a liver and brain carcinogen, was turned into PVC resin. On the other, ortho-toluidine, a bladder carcinogen, was used in a tire antioxidant: Scores of workers died, per 'The Cancer Factory.'

Americans who run small family farms and ranches often lack health insurance. A journalist from a Texas farming family writes of her uninsured relatives' struggles to find affordable care without a helping hand from the state. #healthcare #TXMedicaid publichealthwatch.org/2024/03/04/tex…

By the mid-1950s, #DuPont knew that a smelly chemical called ortho-toluidine caused bladder cancer in lab animals and began protecting its own workers. But it didn't warn its customers, including #Goodyear , for two decades. Result: an outbreak detailed in 'The Cancer Factory.'

Harry Weist, a longtime employee at the Goodyear chemical plant in Niagara Falls, NY, has endured four bouts of bladder cancer. He’s among at least 78 plant workers to develop the disease. 'Damn that Goodyear, man,' Harry says. Read more in “The Cancer Factory.”

Two of Ray and Dottie Kline’s infant children died of birth defects in the 1960s. Dottie blames Ray’s exposure to vinyl chloride at the Goodyear chemical plant in Niagara Falls, NY. Read about the Klines’ crushing losses – and inspiring resiliency -- in “The Cancer Factory.”

BREAKING: Environmental health scientists have been saying this for a while. It's time for our regulatory process to catch up.

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