The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it is beginning the process of prioritizing five additional toxic chemicals fo...

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) just announced its plans to engage and inform communities, states, Tribes, Territories, and sta...

Firefighter and public safety officer presumption bill advances and creates a rebuttable presumption of workers’ compensation coverage for ...

The following comment was submitted by Linda Reinstein, President/CEO, Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) in response to the US...

Standing outside a Claire’s Store in Sea Girt, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) called on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to i...

English: The La Oroya train station 1921 (Photo credit:  Wikipedia ) Today's post is shared from Occupational Knowledge Internatio...

Today's post is shared from tuc.org US industry groups are trying to reverse a decision by the U.S. National Toxicology Program to s...

Thinking beyond today and beyond specific employee exposure is critical for the analysis of the consequences of our environment and health...

Exposure to asbestos is known to cause cancers , such as mesothelioma and lung cancer . Despite the knowledge that asbestos companies had...

Today's post was shared by RWJF PublicHealth and comes from www.reuters.com The air we breathe is laced with cancer-causing substanc...

The specialized cancer agency of the WHO, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) , announced that it has classified outdoor...

In a joint statement the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) again declared all fo...

A NJ appellate court upheld a trial court's decision holding an employer liable for workers compensation benefits for renal cancer and...

The US still has not banned asbestos. The recently released US Geological Survey just published the latest statistics reporting that 1,040 m...

Canada's activities at the UN Rotterdam Convention to prevent the listing of chrysotile asbestos as a carcinogen has been internation...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced today that eight substances have been added to its Report on Carcinogens , a sc...

After years of review, the World Health Organization  (WHO) has classified the radio frequencies utilized by cell phones as possibly carcin...

A company that makes a hair straightening product, Brazilian Blowout, has dropped a lawsuit that it had filed against Oregon OSHA ( Occupat...