Producer: Gary Bentley, Source: The Ring of Fire Network, Originally Published: 4.21.17 Via America’s Lawyer: Mike Papantonio discusses why there are 4,000 deaths a year on average from trucking accidents and speaks with attorney, Stewart Guss, about how deregulation has led to more accidents.
By: Eric Levitz, Source: New York Magazine, Originally Published: 4.19.17 In 2012, the Environmental Protection Agency passed a rule limiting the amount of heavy metals that coal-fired power plants could spew into the air. The agency’s research suggested that the rule would prevent 11,000 deaths, 4,700 heart attacks, and 130,000 asthma attacks every year. These
A review of 205 inspection reports, 63 lawsuits and 105 police reports dating to 2011 found that the quality of nursing homes in Anderson, Greenville, Oconee and Pickens counties varies widely. Although nursing homes here have, on average, fewer deficiencies than those around the nation, care is inconsistent, and when quality suffers patients can be
By: Eric Levitz, Source: New York Magazine, Originally Published: 3.30.17 In 2015, scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency advised the Obama administration to ban one of the nation’s most popular pesticides, chlorpyrifos, after concluding that the chemical impaired fetal brain and nervous-system development. Specifically, the children of farm workers exposed to heavy doses of the
As part of Obamacare, the federal government increased payroll taxes to help pay for the Medicare Trust Fund. That fund is used to reimburse hospitals when seniors come in and need treatment. Trump’s bill does away with those new taxes. As a result, the Medicare Trust Fund would go broke about four years earlier than
“A trucker was stranded on the side of the road, late at night, in cold weather, and his trailer brakes were stuck,” wrote appeals court judge Neil Gorsuch, last August, in a dissenting opinion that is apt to come up at his confirmation hearings next week for the open seat on the U.S. Supreme Court.