NPPC Applauds Regan for EPA Admin and Tyson Fires 7 for COVID Betting
Tuesday Dec 22nd, 2020 From the Ag Information Network, I’m Bob Larson with your Agribusiness Update. The nomination by President-Elect Biden Thursday of Michael Regan as the next EPA Administrator is being hailed by the National Pork Producers Council.
NPPC President Howard “AV” Roth says as Department of Environmental Quality secretary in North Carolina, he always had an open door, valued diverse points of view, and worked to find solutions that ensured science and data were guiding decisions.
Regan’s nomination will be considered by the Senate in January.
“Tyson is flagrantly misrepresenting its poor pandemic response,” Comptroller Scott M. Stringer said.
Dec 17th, 2020
New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer
In this May 7 file photo, workers enter and leave the Tyson Foods pork processing plant in Logansport, IN.
AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File
NEW YORK
On Dec. 15, New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer called on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to open an investigation into Tyson Foods Inc. for making misleading disclosures to investors, including the New York City Retirement Systems, regarding its worker health and safety protections, and resulting risks, amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Tyson’s slow and minimal pandemic response and the resulting infections, hospitalizations, and deaths among its workforce are well-documented; however, Tyson’s annual disclosure paints an inaccurate and misleading picture of the company’s safety culture and its claims that it continues to implement safety