Yesterday's presser is perhaps the most glaring example of the discrepancy between the Trump admin's words (gold standard science! rigor! reproducibility!) and their actions (citing a couple correlative studies to make massive policy changes). Placebo RCTs for thee, observational study for me.

Bravo to NYT and @hannahdreier.bsky.social U.S. Wildfire Fighters to Mask Up After Decades-Long Ban on Smoke Protections www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/u...

Ahh yes, those growth promoting investments: microcaptive insurance and basis shifting through complex partnerships

Former #OSHA head David Michaels on why workers and all Americans need the Chemical Safety Board. The Trump administration is threatening to shut the Board down. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

The US Chemical Safety Board investigates fires, explosions, & other workplace disasters, helping prevent future ones. It is supported by industry, unions, first responders, even the American Chemical Council. But Trump wants to shut it down. Check out this @pbsnews.org clip. tinyurl.com/556ahk9e

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After a city employee died in a trench collapse in Milton, WV, the city plans to "opt in" to a voluntary public employee OSHA program. That would make it the only city in the entire state to protect its workers. WV & 22 other states need laws protecting ALL public employees. tinyurl.com/324emjar

450 were napped by ICE at a Hyundai construction site in Georgia, where 3 workers had been killed. Workers complained about the deaths to Trump's OSHA, which did nothing. Instead, ICE showed up in an act viewed as retaliatory. paydayreport.com/450-napped-b...

Check out this post by my colleague, Dr. Andrew Rosenberg. Erasing Evidence open.substack.com/pub/scilight...

Trump's mix of high tariffs and union-busting won't deliver higher wages or new manufacturing jobs for American workers - it will just increase profits for corporations. Check out my new report with @epi.org:

Too bad Florida Republicans and Governor DeSantis passed legislation forbidding Florida localities from passing ordinances protecting workers from heat-related illnesses. Otherwise, Marco Antonio Hernandez Guevara might still be alive. www.wgcu.org/top-story/20...

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

Just as happened during the covid pandemic, the powerful and comfortable can work in safety (during covid at home, during extreme heat in air conditioning) while workers who grow our food & build our cities are exposed to hazards that increase their risk of illness and death. Jeff Goodell nails it

Today would be a good day to give public employees the right to come home safe and alive at the end of the work day.

Almost 55 years after the Occupational Safety & Health Act promised safe & healthful working conditions for "every" working man and woman," public employees in 23 states still have no OSHA coverage, no right to come home safe at the end of the day. And they're dying. jordanbarab.com/confinedspac...

We're killing the workers who protect our homes and our lives. It doesn't have to be this way.

"The ability to tell the truth…is an essential prerequisite for a free society." 🔥

Inquiring minds want to know: which plague did Apple CEO Tim Cook give President Trump? Frogs? Boils? Lice? No need to give darkness since that we’ve had that for 200 days.

Under Trump's misleadingly named "Restoring Gold Standard Science" Executive Order, if federal climate scientists who wrote the National Climate Assessments that will now be altered by climate change contrarians dissent from the alterations, they can be discliplined or fired. tinyurl.com/4hcsyu4m

Tune in today at 1 PM ET / 10 AM PT for an update on ways the federal and local governments are addressing, and failing to address, extreme heat.

Read Lauren McFerran (@tcfdotorg.bsky.social & former NLRB chair) on the dangerous efforts by OSHA to exempt workers in "inherently dangerous" jobs from general duty clause citations. If successful this could be used to allow employers in many industry to willfully expose workers to deadly hazards.

🚨REMINDER: Our Extreme Heat Webinar is tomorrow, August 7 at 10 am PT! You won't want to miss this conversation w/ @alejandrabee.bsky.social @kdyjournalist.bsky.social & @drdavidmichaels.bsky.social 🔥 Register today: bit.ly/XtremeHeatWe... #webinar #extremeheat #climatehealth #journalism

Eliminating the PMF program as President Trump ordered could mean losing a new generation of bright public servants. PMF alums @andrewpmiller.bsky.social and Kelly Razzouk explain in @justsecurity.org:

Working with Peter on this book has been especially rewarding, meaningful...and therapeutic. We had no idea just how sadly relevant #ScienceUnderSiege would be when we set out to write the book a year and a half ago.

The Forever Lobbying Project led by @stephanehorel.bsky.social of Le Monde with support from @corporateeurope.org has won the Helen Darbishire Award. The project exposed lobbying against an EU PFAS ban on a scale "far bigger than anything the tobacco industry have been able to pull together." 🧵 1/2

🎙️Join our webinar 8/7 @ 10am PT w/ @alejandrabee.bsky.social from @npr.org, @kdyjournalist.bsky.social from @kjzzphoenix.bsky.social & @drdavidmichaels.bsky.social (ex-OSHA) to explore the #extremeheat #healthcrisis & what can be done. Don’t miss it: bit.ly/XtremeHeatWebReg

History shows us how scientific empires fall: ideology over evidence. Today, the Trump admin is dismantling our research institutions piece by piece. If we don’t act, we know how this ends. Looking to stand up for science? #31Days of Action is happening now - join us 👉 zurl.co/MeIbs zurl.co/7P8Ov

Very exciting news!

Has #OSHA become the "Optional" Safety and Health Administration where voluntary programs are prioritized over enforcement, where regulations are weakened so that employers don't have to experience the discomfort of a citation for endangering workers? jordanbarab.com/confinedspac...

Absolutely right!

Making Silicosis Great Again Protecting the economic interests of mine owners but not the lungs of coal miners, House Republicans claim the Mine Safety and Health Administration's new silica exposure standard "places undue and excessive burdens on the mining industry" and should be redone. 1/2

Big chicken company slammed for hiring children in prohibited dangerous jobs. Mar Jac - the same company where a 16 year old was killed in a prohibited job- was found to hire even younger kids 13 and 14 in these dangerous jobs. The Biden DOL began this investigation. www.dol.gov/newsroom/rel...

OSHA is making up for enforcement cuts by boosting VPP and Onsite Consultation - programs designed for good employers who want to do better. Meanwhile, enforcement -- targeting low road employers who cut corners on safety and kill workers -- is suffering. content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USD...

OSHA claims that they are lowering penalties "to help employers address safety issues more quickly, come into compliance faster, and minimize financial burdens" and to "put resources where they matter most to better protect workers." But is #OSHA ... 1/2 www.osha.gov/quicktakes/0...

“Restoring Gold Standard Science” is a move from the same toolbox as RFK, Jr.’s “radical transparency.” That is to say, it will do the exact opposite of what it says it will do. Excellent piece from @drdavidmichaels.bsky.social and Wendy Wagner.

Excellent piece articulating how the provisions of the Trump Administration's Gold Standard Standard will be weaponized to weaken the role of science in policy, given the long history of use of these tactics by political and industry actors. www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

President Trump’s Executive Order “Restoring Gold Standard Science” is designed, of course, to do the exact opposite. @progressivereform.bsky.social scholar Wendy Wagner and I show how the Trump Administration is weaponizing "scientiifc integrity" in @theatlantic.com It truly is fool's gold. 🧵

New law cuts budget at agency that enforces American employees' rights to safe and healthy workplaces: $ cut 8% & staff cut 12%. Now it would take OSHA 266 years to inspect all U.S. workplaces, up from 185 years before budget law & 84 years in 1991. insideclimatenews.org/news/1607202...

A recent study shows even the wealthiest Americans have higher mortality than the poorest Europeans. Researcher Atheendar Venkataramani weighs in, in an article for @nbcnews.com: READ MORE:

Some people dismiss ghost-writing as inconsequential. In our latest paper, Sasha Kaurov & I show that is NOT the case. Thanks to @sfoucart.bsky.social @stephanehorel.bsky.social who first alerted me to the #Monsanto Papers and also Paul Thacker. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Trump's militarized immigration enforcement is increasing health and safety hazards for immigrant workers: more violations, more injuries and fewer OSHA complaints. The remedy: a union jordanbarab.com/confinedspac...

White House again attempts to kill the Chemical Safety Board, despite industry support. Even the American Chemistry Council says ""We value the work of the CSB and want to see it continue." The CSB also has strong labor union support. cen.acs.org/safety/indus...

My profile of Ken Kies, the lobbyist behind the biggest, most lucrative tax dodges of the past 30 years -- and is now the top tax policy official in Trump's Treasury Dept: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/b...

OSHA drastically reduces the already low penalties for employers that violate the law. DOL further aims to conduct among the lowest number of inspections in OSHA’s 50 yrs-taking over 180 yrs to inspect all workplaces once. There will be no more fear of OSHA to motivate employer to comply.

Skip the editorial by the director of Trump's Office of Science and Technology Policy on "sound science." Read the letter by John Holdren instead: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

“The Senator’s wake-up calls about government inaction take on a new urgency in Trump 2.0.” Link in bio.

How workers died last week: Fireworks explosion, flash flood, tanker explosion, electrocution, tree care, shootings, vehicle incidents. On average, over 100 workers are killed every week in the United States due to traumatic injuries suffered at work. jordanbarab.com/confinedspac...

“We’ve heard some of the representatives of employers say that a voluntary standard is all that’s needed; that with training and better guidance, employers will ensure workers will be protected from extreme heat,” @drdavidmichaels.bsky.social said. “That’s fantasy.” /end

📣 OFFICIAL STATEMENT from our Founder & Executive Director @cdelawalla.bsky.social on the unfolding situation at the #EPA. Stand with the brave EPAers here➡️ act.standupforscience.net/forms/epa-ad... #DeclarationofDissent

After several heat-related deaths, 13 regions in Italy have prohibited all outdoor work from 12:30 to 16:00. Meanwhile, in the U.S., we have no heat rules in most states & the business community says drop the #OSHA proposal. Just trust employers to do the right thing. watchers.news/2025/07/02/f...