The president announced the choice Thursday, saying Berrien "has spent her entire career fighting to give voice to underrepresented communities and protect our most basic rights."
Released June 29, EPA's list of 44 ponds nationwide that are assigned a high hazard potential rating, meaning a failure probably would cause fatalities, included 12 North Carolina sites -- the most of any state.
One case involved alleged machine guarding and other violations against Crucible Specialty Metals following an investigation sparked by a worker's death Jan. 15.
As is happening in the United States, the proposed UK regulations now open for comments were prompted by high-profile incidents and deaths in the past decade.
NHTSA's first roadside survey to test for drugs as well as alcohol found 16.3 percent of nighttime weekend drivers were drug positive, most commonly from marijuana, cocaine, and OTC or prescription drugs.
A small turnout of voters made the Democrat the first Chinese-American woman elected to serve in Congress. President Obama called her with congratulations, the White House said Wednesday.
The Paterson, N.J.-based companies promised to make corrections, but they failed to do so, DOJ said. The government’s complaint requests a court order to stop the companies and its officer from manufacturing and distributing the products until needed corrections are made.
OSHA published a notice in the July 10 edition of the Federal Register to approve a new Illinois state public employee protection plan.
In the course of redeveloping the property for residential reuse, a sludge lagoon area containing arsenic, cadmium, chromium, lead, and silver was excavated, and the contaminated material was improperly sent to a landfill in Rochester, N.H., that was not licensed or designed to accept hazardous waste.
The site in Agawam, Mass., was admitted for three years of participation at the star level following an OSHA team’s three-day onsite review, which included an examination of the facility’s safety and health management system, interviews with employees, and a complete tour of the plant.
Experts at the event Wednesday will discuss older workers’ ability to keep their jobs during layoffs or to find work afterward and the effect of recent controversial Supreme Court decisions on enforcement of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act.
The agency estimates it will take three to four months to clean the four-acre site that once held both an auto salvage shop and a gas station, situated a half mile from the center of town in a mixed residential and commercial area.
Training programs will be offered on a monthly basis and are normally conducted jointly by personnel from both the Delaware Safety Council and OSHA.
In a suit filed this week in New York, the government says the company has an extensive history of operating under unsanitary conditions and producing cheese contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, a foodborne pathogen that can cause serious illness and death.
If Brian Hayes is confirmed by the U.S. Senate, the five-member board will again have a quorum. The issue of whether hundreds of decisions issued by the two-member board are valid has been heated since the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on May 1 that one such order was invalid.
"The identified violations leave employees at the refinery vulnerable to accidents that could result in injury or possible death," said Al D'Imperio, area director of OSHA's Philadelphia Office.
The Food and Drug Administration on July 7 announced a regulation expected to prevent each year 79,000 cases of foodborne illness and 30 deaths caused by consumption of eggs contaminated with the bacterium Salmonella enteritidis.
The Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans (also known as the ERISA Advisory Council) will meet July 21-23, 2009, in Washington, D.C., at the U.S. Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Ave., Room N-3437A-B.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) recently announced that nine children's product manufacturers, importers, and sellers have agreed to pay more than $500,000 in civil penalties for violating the federal lead paint ban.
On Tuesday, FDA Commissioner Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg announced Michael R. Taylor, a former administrator of the Food Safety and Inspection Service and acting under secretary for Food Safety, is returning to FDA as her senior advisor.