Tag: Senator Sherrod Brown

Hazardous train spills prompt calls for tougher safety rules

Volume 401, Issue 10383
8 April 2023 

 

WORLD REPORT  New bipartisan legislation has been proposed to protect health and safety following a train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, USA. Susan Jaffe reports from Washington, DC.

A flammable brew of toxic chemicals from a freight train that went off the tracks in the Ohio village of East Palestine is no longer burning but the impact of the wreck is far from over. A massive clean-up continues along with water, soil, and air monitoring. Several government agencies are involved in recovery efforts and are investigating what went wrong. And in a rare show of bipartisanship, Democrats and Republicans in Congress have proposed legislation aimed at closing the gaps in rail safety rules that the accident exposed. The accident’s aftermath has also reached the courts. [Continued here.]…

Trump administration begins to confront the opioid crisis

 Volume 390, Number 10108   
11 November 2017

 

WORLD REPORT    As the Presidential Commission releases its recommendations, Trump moves closer to defining his policies against the opioid epidemic  Susan Jaffe, The Lancet’s Washington correspondent, reports.  

“Having failed to recognise how this epidemic was going to grow in proportion and take vigorous enough action, we need to be willing to be far more vigorous so we don’t continue with that mistake,” said Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb.   [full story here]

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