The 2016 National Press Club Journalism Contest also awarded the Consumer Journalism, newspapers, award to the Associated Press for its stories about the fishing industry in Southeast Asia’s use of slave laborers.
Columbus plans to deploy three electric self-driving shuttles to link a new bus rapid transit center to a retail district and use data analytics to improve health care access in a neighborhood where the infant mortality rate quadruples the national average.
Police must obtain a search warrant before requiring drivers to submit to blood tests, the court ruled June 23.
The Health Information Technology Standards Committee and one new member to the Health Information Technology Policy Committee allow stakeholders and the public to provide direct input to HHS on the implementation and use of health IT.
A source briefed the Associated Press, saying the money would go mainly to compensate 482,000 owners.
The Annual Meeting of the AMA adopted guidance for selecting LED options to minimize potential risk.
Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, said policies needed to counter declining productivity and labor force participation, as well as income inequality and almost 15 percent of Americans living in poverty, include a higher federal minimum wage, more generous earned income tax credit, and upgraded social programs for the non-working poor.
MVP Plastics out of New York has been cited by OSHA for a repeat violation.
Wegmans Food Market faces $140K in fines.
The Joint Proposal would replace power produced by two nuclear reactors at the Diablo Canyon Power Plant with a cost-effective, greenhouse gas free portfolio of energy efficiency, renewables and energy storage, according to the utility, which has committed to a 55 percent renewable energy target in 2031.
FAA said that, according to industry estimates, the rule could generate more than $82 billion for the U.S. economy and create more than 100,000 new jobs during the next 10 years. The new rule takes effect in late August.
A survey was given to 2,000 employees in high-risk jobs.
One year after the explosion, in November 2013, the federal Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement called for a safety stand-down by offshore oil and gas platforms' crews to discuss the lessons learned from 2012 explosion and fire on platform WD 32 E, operated by Black Elk Energy Offshore Operations.
The meeting took place ahead of Safety 2016, the big ASSE conference taking place this month in Atlanta.
Nancy McWilliams of Virginia Beach, Va., and Kathy Seabrook of Mendham, N.J., will receive the honor of Fellow, recognizing their career-long commitments to worker safety and their leadership in the profession, during the Safety 2016 conference.
NRC said the flood modifications included building new or enhanced flood walls and other features, as well as moving some power lines and equipment to locations less prone to flooding. Duke Energy informed the agency two months ago that those modifications were complete, and a subsequent inspection caused NRC to determine that the company has satisfied the commitments in the 2010 confirmatory action letter.
The event will help improve federal worker safety and health.