Environmental Health

"Cuomo Orders Emergency Measures to Protect Workers at Nail Salons"

"Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo ordered emergency measures on Sunday to combat the wage theft and health hazards faced by the thousands of people who work in New York State’s nail salon industry.

Effective immediately, he said in a statement, a new, multiagency task force will conduct salon-by-salon investigations, institute new rules that salons must follow to protect manicurists from the potentially dangerous chemicals found in nail products, and begin a six-language education campaign to inform them of their rights.

Source: NY Times, 05/11/2015

Lead Paint Poisons Poor Chicago Kids as City Spends Less on Cleanup

"Alarming levels of brain-damaging lead are poisoning more than a fifth of the children tested from some of the poorest parts of Chicago, even as the hazard has been largely eliminated in more prosperous neighborhoods, a Tribune investigation has found."

Source: Chicago Tribune, 05/04/2015

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