Elizabeth Grossman - In These Times

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.

The GOP Just Got One Step Closer to Taking Away Your Overtime Pay

Trump’s Policies Are Already Making Workplaces More Toxic

What Slashing the Labor Department Budget by 21 Percent Would Mean

Republicans Are Racing To Make Workplaces More Dangerous and Unhealthy

House Republicans Vow To Do “Everything We Can” To Roll Back Labor Law Gains

Federal Hiring Freeze To Hit Rural and Minority Communities the Hardest

New Congress on Track to Block Long-Sought Workplace and Public Health Protections

Trump Touts “Pro-Worker” Agenda at Meeting with Union Leaders; Some Waiting for Proof

More U.S. Workers Have Highly Volatile, Unstable Incomes

Will Workplace Safety Survive a Trump Presidency?

New U.N. Report Shows Just How Awful Globalization and Informal Employment Are for Workers

Fire Departments, Airports and Military Bases May Be More Toxic to Workers Than You Think

As Temperatures Climb Across the Country, Workers Will Suffer

New Study Reveals Just How Brutal Meat and Poultry Work Is for Workers

This New Rule Will Make Information About On-the-Job Injuries at Dangerous Workplaces Public

New Report: 90 Percent of the World’s Domestic Workers Lack Social Security Protection

Govt. Report: Even After 2013 Texas Fertilizer Explosion, Hundreds of Communities Still at Risk

U.S. To Increase Worker Protection From Deadly Silica Dust for First Time in More Than 40 Years

The Toxic Chemical Causing Lung Disease Among Both Workers Making and Users Vaping E-Cigarettes

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.

Will the EPA Ban a Pesticide That’s Been Lowering Children’s IQs for Years?

A Farmworkers Bill of Rights in New York May Finally End “Abhorrent and Unacceptable” Treatment

Two Years After West, Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion, Are Workers Any Safer? New Report Says No

Union, Environmental Group Say Dozens of Nuclear Workers Suffering from Toxic Materials Exposure