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    29 Dec 2020

    The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, at now 50 years old, is asleep at the wheel—abandoning rule-making & safety initiatives at nearly every turn. "The longer this goes," said a lawmaker, "the more endangered the public is.” Our latest:

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  2. 4 hours ago

    In case you missed it: Pesticide, colloidal silver and fake contact tracers--scam artists are still finding ways to fleece consumers during the pandemic:

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  3. Jan 29

    Vaccines vs. variants, the forthcoming fleet of EV charging stations, environmental racism charges in a Chicago scrapyard fight—all that and more in our end-of-week by :

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  4. Jan 27

    Black Plague tea. Biomagnetism treatment. Ozone therapy. As authorities try to crack down, bogus Covid-19 promotions like these are still going strong, with consumers falling prey to sham treatments and cures. From :

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  5. Jan 26

    Biden orders limits on travel as global covid cases near 100 million, vaccine chasers cut the line, Trump's clemency picks are a "kick in the teeth," and more in this week's by :

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  6. Jan 25

    Biden's stimulus plan would end the tipped minimum wage. Last year, covered the restaurant workers organizing to end the practice.

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  7. Jan 23

    In case you missed it: Curious whether your city is park- poor? Check out FairWarning's story on the cities that scored best and worst in 2020:

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  8. Jan 22

    Biden issues executive orders to bring the pandemic under control, white patients are getting vaccinated at a higher rate than Black patients, monarch butterfly population at an all time low—all that and more in Friday's by :

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  9. Jan 21

    Pete Buttigieg, nominee for Secretary of Transportation, appeared today before a Senate committee to outline his plans for the agency. ICYMI, FairWarning investigated problems plaguing one of the DOT's most important arms--NHTSA:

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  10. Jan 19

    400,000 deaths from COVID-19 by the end of today, NHTSA loosens safety standards for autonomous vehicles, a potential danger hiding in the disinfectants that purify our drinking water—all that and more in this week's by :

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  11. Jan 16

    Biden's stimulus plan would end the sub-minimum wage for disabled workers. In 2019, we covered the 82-year-old law that allows certain employers to pay disabled workers less than minimum wage—and in some cases, far less.

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  12. Jan 15

    1 in 3 LA County residents affected by Covid, former Michigan gov indicted over Flint water crisis, a multi-million Clean Air penalty for Toyota—all that and more in this week's by :

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  13. Jan 15

    News: Toyota is paying $180 million for neglecting to report emissions-related defects in its cars. Since 2017, the EPA has also cracked down on a cottage industry of players deliberately deleting vehicle emissions controls—but much is unresolved:

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  14. Jan 14

    Over the last decade, one California company has been implicated in a string of incidents where pesticide has landed off target on dozens of people, plants, and animals. Pesticide drift is, one expert said, "endemic" to pesticide use. Read more:

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  15. Jan 13

    The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, now 50 years old, has been asleep at the wheel—abandoning rule-making & safety initiatives at nearly every turn. "The longer this goes," said one lawmaker, "the more endangered the public is.” Read on:

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  16. Jan 12

    Disneyland as vaccination station, Covid infects more Congress members, environmental woes in the pipeline—all that and more in this week's by :

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  17. Jan 8

    Billions of dollars in unemployment relief lost to fraudsters, Boeing settles criminal charge of conspiracy to defraud the FAA, Biden addresses police bias in aftermath of siege on Congress—all that and more in our Friday by :

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  18. Jan 6

    Ratings issued by The Trust for Public Land vividly illustrate a nationwide struggle to improve city parks.

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  19. Jan 5

    One Covid death every 33 seconds in December, the U.K. variant spreads across the globe, the DOL busts employers who shorted wages for nurses and ambulance drivers—all that and more in by :

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  20. 31 Dec 2020

    What happens when one company is implicated in spraying pesticide on dozens of unintended targets? We found out. “It’s like, ‘Ok it’s that time of the year, we’re going to just have to shut our windows and not go outside,’” said one farmworker advocate.

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  21. 30 Dec 2020

    Democracy depends on informed citizens, and that's why we do what we do. At FairWarning, we put all we’ve got into stories that matter and might otherwise never get told. But we can’t do it without you. Just $12K left to our goal. Help us reach it here:

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