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Efforts to Deliver "Kill Shot" to Paid Sick Leave Tied to ALEC
Business  (tags: children, babies, family, ethics, health, humans, illness, protection, risks, safety, women, society, prevention, investments, labor, law, consumers )

JL
- 45 days ago - prwatch.org
In a victory for working families, New York is poised to become the largest U.S. city to require businesses offer paid sick days to workers
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Video: Brazil Lab Aims to Eradicate Leprosy
Business  (tags: disease, ethics, health, illness, medicine, prevention, protection, safety, science, society, treatment, business, GoodNews, society, world )

JL
- 87 days ago - aljazeera.com
OrangeLife medical laboratory in Rio de Janeiro is pioneering a new test to help early disease detection.
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Action Needed on Two Year Anniversary of Delayed Worker Safety Rule
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JL
- 91 days ago - citizenvox.org
Two years ago today, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) submitted a proposal to update the standard that protects workers from exposure to crystalline silica dust.
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Big Pharma Ups Its Game in Providing Drugs to People in Poor Countries
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JL
- 171 days ago - guardian.co.uk
Access to Medicines Index shows pharmaceutical companies improving on pricing, neglected diseases, lobbying and trials
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Orange Shadow Over Olympics
Business  (tags: Olympics, Daw Chemical, dioxin, herbicide, War, Agent Orange, London, US, Vietnam War, environment, habitat, habitatdestruction, illness, death, ethics, money )

Naoko
- 300 days ago - ipsnews.net
Agent Orange (AO) often called the "last regacy" of the United States war in Vietnam (1955-1975), has popped up again thanks to its manufacturer Daw Chemical's controversial sponcership of the Olympic Games.
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Charles Moore: Sailing the Great Pacific Garbage Patch Theonlytruecate   video
Business  (tags: pollution, nature, humans, environment, death, world, animals, wildanimals, wildlife, crime, warning, illness, environment )

EcoWorrie
- 922 days ago - youtube.com
Capt. Charles Moore of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation first discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch -- an endless floating waste of plastic trash. Now he's drawing attention to the growing, choking problem of plastic debris in our seas.
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BP Threatens to Fire Cleanup Workers Who Wear Respirators
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Al
- 1049 days ago - bpmakesmesick.com
Join experts, political leaders, and thousands of Americans in signing the statement: We cannot let the denial of protective gear that hurt so many 9/11 clean-up workers happen again with the Gulf clean-up workers.
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New Non-Profit Energy Company Launches Its Website.
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Stuart
- 1182 days ago - atcostenergy.com
The organization believes that keeping warm and such should be a right and not a luxury and therefore should not be used for profit. Checkout the website and register your interest to give them an idea of the level of custom they need to prepare for.
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Getting Real About the High Price of Cheap Food
Business  (tags: research, risks, safety, illness, health, environment, ethics, animals, animalwelfare, animalcruelty, lies, abuse, ethics, money )

Susan
- 1365 days ago - time.com
Somewhere in Iowa, a pig is being raised in a confined pen, packed in so tightly with other swine that their curly tails have been chopped off so they won't bite one another. To prevent him from getting sick in such close quarters, he is dosed with antib
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What's So Great About Private Health Insurance?
Business  (tags: business, consumers, corporate, lies, corruption, dishonesty, money, politics, ethics, insurance, universal, single, payer, healthcare, americans, prevention, protection, medicine, illness, humans, healthcare, disease )

Tom
- 1389 days ago - latimes.com
The firms take billions of dollars out of the U.S. healthcare wallet as profits, while imposing enormous administrative costs on doctors, hospitals, employers and patients. They've introduced complexity into the system at every level. Why protect them?
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Speak Out Against Walmart's Slashed Drug Coverage
Business  (tags: treatment, warning, study, medicine, illness, health, healthcare, drugs, risks, safety, wal-mart, corruption )

Susan
- 1394 days ago - wakeupwalmart.com
Walmart is playing politics again, and in a big way. When it comes to health care reform, Walmart claims to support "an employer mandate [for health care] which is fair and broad in its coverage." Ironically, if you're a Walmart associate, "fair" and "br
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Fla. Smoker Widow Gets $8 Million Damages
Business  (tags: news, money, goodnews, environment, ethics, consumers, society, marketing, humans, business, dishonesty, illness, protection, risks )

Susan
- 1554 days ago - news.yahoo.com
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Philip Morris was ordered by a jury to pay $8 million in damages to the widow of a smoker who died of lung cancer in a case that could set a standard for some 8,000 similar Florida lawsuits.
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Bilderberg Company That Puts Pesticide in Their Product Boasts of Being Among Top 50 Best Companies
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- 1880 days ago - care2.com
Pepsico who puts Pesticides in their products to help the pharmaceutical trade by causing cancer, and other health issues with their product boasts of being among the top 50 best companies in America. I guess with a death rate like theirs it would be noti
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FDA: Contaminated Feed Could Affect Farms Nationwide
Business  (tags: contamination, diet, health, illness, risks, animal, birds, petfoodrecall, farming, farm animals, Farm Animals, agriculture, food, profit, consumer, china )

Heather
- 2212 days ago - cnn.com
Contaminated feed found in 38 Indiana chicken farms; more farms likely affected o Feed contains recalled pet food with tainted wheat gluten o No human illnesses have been reported related to tainted poultry feed o Reports of 4,150 dog and cat deaths
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