by #KatieMyers in @grist:

"The Mine Safety and Health Administration oversees mine safety and operates under different rules than the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Under its guidelines, miners can be exposed to twice as much silica dust as workers in any other industry. After decades of protest by coal miners and their families demanding a stricter exposure standard, MSHA has introduced some preventative measures, including increased inspections, miner education, and greater dust sampling. But many workers and their allies find the agency’s response wanting, and they want the acceptable level of silica exposure cut from 100 micrograms per cubic meter of air to 50, bringing it in line with OSHA’s regulation."

https://grist.org/energy/a-rule-that-could-help-save-coal-miners-lives-is-mired-in-red-tape/

#coal #miners #OSHA #regulation #safety #Appalachia #lungs

by #KatieMyers in @grist:

"Even if we don’t think of our jobs as climate-related, most industries have climate impacts, and workers have used that fact to push their workplaces toward a more responsible relationship with the environment. Among that number are healthcare workers like McLaren, Amazon employees and Uber drivers working to reduce their companies’ emissions, steel workers pushing for a green transition, and many, many more who have seen their workplaces as sites of agitation for climate justice, and as opportunities to create a healthier world."

https://grist.org/looking-forward/looking-to-join-a-climate-community-try-your-workplace/

#unions #workers #GreenEnergy #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #climate #ClimateJustice #Grist

by #KatieMyers in @grist:

"Meteorologists expect the pattern to remain for 10 to 15 days, affecting 25 million people in the Southern United States. Looking beyond the South, a huge swath of North America is feeling the repercussions of the unusually high heat, with massive storms and outages. All of this is happening in conjunction with a marine heatwave, which experts have linked to El Nino — essentially, the supercharged heating of the oceans that is causing unusually high land temperatures and increased energy in the atmosphere. Experts warn that the pattern is taking us into potentially record-shattering weather, with temperatures soaring above 100 degrees earlier than usual."

https://grist.org/extreme-weather/storms-and-searing-heat-grip-mexico-and-southern-states/

#GlobalWarming #heatwave #heat #weather #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #climate #ElNino #Mexico #South