Study points to ways of involving visually impaired people in environmental disaster prevention

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Brazilian researchers show that inclusion is necessary if disaster prevention policy is to avoid the “invisibility” of these people and reduce the barriers that intensify vulnerability. Credit: Giselly Gomes/GPEA According to the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), almost half the world’s population—about 3.3 billion to 3.6 billionContinue Reading

Nebraska Railcar Cleaning Company and its Owners Plead Guilty to Violating Environmental and Worker Safety Laws Related to Workers’ 2015 Deaths | OPA

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Breon Peace, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York and Lisa Garcia, Regional Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 2, announced that the United States has entered into a Consent Judgment settling a civil lawsuit against Genesis Petroleum, Inc. and 20 associated companies (Defendants),Continue Reading

Several Central Michigan University journalism educators were reinstated to full duty in August after an independent investigations determine they did not violate school policy or steer student interns to a Lansing consultant despite knowing of hostile workplace allegations.

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Central Michigan University has reinstated two journalism professors and a staff member after an external investigation determined the three did not violate university policies in relation to interns working at a firm run by TJ Bucholz, a Lansing-based political consultant and CMU alumnus accused of sexual harassment. “We found no evidence that the (CMU professorsContinue Reading