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How Regulation Could Have Helped Prevent Texas Plant Explosion: Mike Elk Discusses with Chris Hayes

Miles Kampf-Lassin April 19, 2013

In These Times Staff Writer Mike Elk talks with Chris Hayes and Celeste Monforton, former policy analyst for OSHA, about how proper regulation would keep more Americans safe at work in the wake of the deadly fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas.

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Miles Kampf-Lassin is Senior Editor at In These Times. Follow him at @MilesKLassin

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