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$30 million jury award in fracking explosion case reignites debate over caps on monetary damages
26 Feb 2024 12:10 GMT
A neurophysiologist compared the fracking tank explosion — which blew Steven … to determine, consistent with the OSHA investigation and one of the …
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2024 Upton Sinclair Memorial Lecture Examines Silicosis Epidemic Among Artificial-Stone Fabricators during AIHA Connect
16 Apr 2024 14:20 GMT
… investigation resulted in Cal/OSHA issuing an emergency rule requiring … support of the Cal/OSHA rule. “We reached more potential … , and toxic air emissions from hydraulic fracturing. Morris has worked for newspapers …
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A Slow-Rolling Disaster in Fracking Country
07 Dec 2023 19:00 GMT
… began treating, cleaning and recycling fracking wastewater, the Kentucky Department … 3 milliRoentgen per hour, above Occupational Safety and Health Administration limits, and high enough that … Protection did not visit the fracking waste treatment plant very …
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Hollowed out
21 Mar 2024 12:20 GMT
… , both commonly used in hydraulic fracturing. All showed exposure to … relationship between hazardous air pollutants, fracking and poor health.
“Kick … exposure limit set by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
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Around two weeks later, …
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Well Blowouts in West Texas Flood Landscape with High Levels of Salt Water
04 Mar 2024 23:13 GMT
… Read: Leaky Gas Wells, Not Fracking, Are to Blame For Dirty … to the US government agency Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). The operation includes activities that … well blowouts.
On its website, OSHA provides some of the tasks …
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How Pittsburgh-based EQT’s expansion in West Virginia set four families reeling, while state regulators trusted the company to answer their complaints
04 Mar 2024 11:21 GMT
… phthalates, both commonly used in hydraulic fracturing. All showed exposure to … relationship between hazardous air pollutants, fracking and poor health.
“Kick … exposure limit set by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
The pattern of neighbor …
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Earth Matters: No technological miracles needed to address climate; Green New Deal push relaunches
03 Mar 2024 17:08 GMT
… financier Marco Krapels and anti-fracking activist Mark Ruffalo) The Solutions … protections. “OSHA failed us,” she said, referring to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration that regulates …
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Former North Dakota oilfield manager gets probation for lying to OSHA after employee's death
14 Oct 2021 22:04 GMT
… , pleaded guilty to obstructing an Occupational Safety and Health Administration proceeding after the death of … carrying water, not the produced fracking water they were actually hauling … that compelled him to mislead OSHA investigators. Under his sentence, …
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A Texas community is being bombarded by cancer-causing benzene. State officials have known for nearly two decades.
08 Jan 2024 20:08 GMT
… team. A process known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, made extracting deeply buried … complaints about benzene emissions from fracking operations in and around Fort … the fire, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration began an inspection of K …
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A Texas Community Is Being Bombarded by Cancer-Causing Benzene. State Officials Have Known for Nearly Two Decades
22 Dec 2023 15:14 GMT
… team. A process known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, made extracting deeply buried … complaints about benzene emissions from fracking operations in and around Fort … the fire, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration began an inspection of K …