Elizabeth Grossman is the author of Chasing Molecules: Poisonous Products, Human Health, and the Promise of Green Chemistry, High Tech Trash: Digital Devices, Hidden Toxics, and Human Health, and other books. Her work has appeared in a variety of publications including Scientific American, Yale e360, Environmental Health Perspectives, Mother Jones, Ensia, Time, Civil Eats, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Salon and The Nation.
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The GOP Just Got One Step Closer to Taking Away Your Overtime Pay
Elizabeth Grossman
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Trump’s Policies Are Already Making Workplaces More Toxic
Elizabeth Grossman
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What Slashing the Labor Department Budget by 21 Percent Would Mean
Elizabeth Grossman
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Republicans Are Racing To Make Workplaces More Dangerous and Unhealthy
Elizabeth Grossman
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House Republicans Vow To Do “Everything We Can” To Roll Back Labor Law Gains
Elizabeth Grossman
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Federal Hiring Freeze To Hit Rural and Minority Communities the Hardest
Elizabeth Grossman
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New Congress on Track to Block Long-Sought Workplace and Public Health Protections
Elizabeth Grossman
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Trump Touts “Pro-Worker” Agenda at Meeting with Union Leaders; Some Waiting for Proof
Elizabeth Grossman
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More U.S. Workers Have Highly Volatile, Unstable Incomes
Elizabeth Grossman
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Will Workplace Safety Survive a Trump Presidency?
Elizabeth Grossman
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New U.N. Report Shows Just How Awful Globalization and Informal Employment Are for Workers
Elizabeth Grossman
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Fire Departments, Airports and Military Bases May Be More Toxic to Workers Than You Think
Elizabeth Grossman
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As Temperatures Climb Across the Country, Workers Will Suffer
Elizabeth Grossman
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New Study Reveals Just How Brutal Meat and Poultry Work Is for Workers
Elizabeth Grossman
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This New Rule Will Make Information About On-the-Job Injuries at Dangerous Workplaces Public
Elizabeth Grossman
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New Report: 90 Percent of the World’s Domestic Workers Lack Social Security Protection
Elizabeth Grossman
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Govt. Report: Even After 2013 Texas Fertilizer Explosion, Hundreds of Communities Still at Risk
Elizabeth Grossman
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U.S. To Increase Worker Protection From Deadly Silica Dust for First Time in More Than 40 Years
Elizabeth Grossman
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The Toxic Chemical Causing Lung Disease Among Both Workers Making and Users Vaping E-Cigarettes
Elizabeth Grossman
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American Hunger-Related Healthcare Costs Exceeded $160 Billion in 2014, According to New Study
Food insecurity, especially for children, remains near record high despite the Great Recession’s official end.
Elizabeth Grossman
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Will the EPA Ban a Pesticide That’s Been Lowering Children’s IQs for Years?
Elizabeth Grossman
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A Farmworkers Bill of Rights in New York May Finally End “Abhorrent and Unacceptable” Treatment
Elizabeth Grossman
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Two Years After West, Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion, Are Workers Any Safer? New Report Says No
Elizabeth Grossman
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Union, Environmental Group Say Dozens of Nuclear Workers Suffering from Toxic Materials Exposure
Elizabeth Grossman