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5G Cancer Risks: Asbestos of a New Generation?

5G implementation is proceeding straightaway despite serious concerns raised by numerous credible researchers and scientists. The next generation of cell phone technology could pose serious cancer risks to the public You have probably already heard about 5G and the plans to roll out the new technology over the next two years. 5G is the new...
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A Review of Recent Damaging Clean Energy Fraud

Clean Energy Fraud All Around Us We have discussed the potential for whistleblower actions grounded in the protection of the environment and compliance with environmental laws here before. Most depend on the unique circumstances of the case and the fraudulent scheme in order to fit within one of the whistleblower programs. With the Trump Administration...
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OSHA Guidelines: Protecting Whistleblowers from Retaliation

Last week, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration offered a set of recommendations for employers to create retaliation-free workplaces. The guidance is directed at employers with employees covered by the 22 whistleblower protection statutes enforced by OSHA. The publication reinforces the broad scope of 22 federal statutes offering anti-retaliation protections concerning hazards or violations of...
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DuPont’s Alleged Failure to Report Health & Environmental Issues

A whistleblower lawsuit filed under the False Claims Act accuses DuPont of failing to report a chemical leak of cancer-causing gas from a plant in Louisiana, according to The Times-Picayune. The Toxic Substances Control Act requires manufacturers, processors and distributors of chemical substances to report when a substance poses a substantial risk of injury to health...
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Whistleblower in a Coal Mine

Whistleblower in a Coal Mine Remember the story of the miners who died in the West Virginia coal mine before the story was overshadowed by the latest fossil fuel debacle? Well, a whistleblower has filed a federal whistleblower complaint claiming that Massey fired him in retaliation for pointing out safety violations at mines in West...
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Independent Watchdogs on OSHA Whistleblowers: A Broken Reflection

Government auditors are blowing the whistle on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the leading investigative branch for workplace safety in the Department of Labor (DOL). The first called foul against OSHA’s whistleblower program came in August, 2010, when the Government Accounting Office (GAO) concluded OSHA functioned as though its field investigators were simply...
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Whistleblower Client Rewarded 50% for Reporting Cover-up

Maximum Recovery as Whistleblower Client Rewarded 50% of Fine As a result of a Whistleblower complaint filed by James Legg of Anchorage, Alaska, on October 23, 2007, Polar Tankers, Inc., a subsidiary of ConocoPhillips, pled guilty to failure to maintain an oil record book aboard the T/V Polar Discovery, an 895 foot crude oil tanker...
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