For the first time in decades, California is tightening its rules on workplace exposure to lead, a poisonous metal that can wreak havoc throughout the body.
For the first time in decades, California is tightening its rules on workplace exposure to lead, a poisonous metal that can wreak havoc throughout the body.
California regulators adopted emergency rules to try to protect laborers who cut countertops from silicosis, an incurable disease that has killed young workers, and head off "an industrial disaster."
California regulators adopted emergency rules to try to protect laborers who cut countertops from silicosis, an incurable disease that has killed young workers, and head off "an industrial disaster."
Wednesday morning, in a courtroom high atop the city in the Thomas F. Eagleton U.S. Courthouse and 27 floors removed from the reality of the street, a three-judge panel of