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World Health Organization Must Prioritize Workers, Experts Say 

After Trump stopped funding the WHO, the agency retreated even more from occupational safety and health programs, putting millions of workers at risk as the planet warms, advocates contend. They hope its leaders change that when they meet next week.

By Liza Gross

A stone countertop fabricator creates a cloud of dust while wearing a mask to help protect against airborne particles, which can contribute to silicosis, at a shop in Sun Valley, Calif. Credit: Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
A stone countertop fabricator wears a mask to help protect against airborne particles which can contribute to silicosis at a shop on Oct. 31, 2023, in Sun Valley, Calif. Credit: Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

As Artificial Stone Countertops Kill Workers, House Republicans Discuss Protections—for Manufacturers

By Liza Gross

A Los Angeles County crew member hydrates between repaving a road as temperatures reach 100 degrees and above in August 2023. Credit: Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

New Analysis Provides More Evidence That Heat Standards Save Lives

By Liza Gross

A worker stripes an intersection on a hot afternoon in Austin, Texas, on Aug. 6. Credit: Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via Getty Images

Texas Workers Keep Dying in the Heat

By Martha Pskowski, Keerti Gopal

Workers exit the Marathon Galveston Bay Refinery on May 10, 2022, in Texas City, Texas. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

OSHA Just Reduced the Value of a Worker’s Life

By Liza Gross

A road worker drinks water at a construction site in Los Angeles as southern California faces a heatwave on Sept. 4, 2024. Credit: Etienne Laurent/AFP via Getty Images

Will the Trump Administration Save Workers from Preventable Overheating Deaths?

By Liza Gross

A construction worker takes a break to wipe his brow while digging a trench amidst a heat wave in Irvine, Calif., on Sept. 5, 2024. Credit: Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

US Labor Advocates Demand Heat Protections for Workers as Planet Warms

By Liza Gross

Construction workers build a cinder block foundation for a new house on July 2, 2020, in Santa Fe, N.M. Credit: Robert Alexander/Getty Images

New Mexico Is the Latest State Developing Standards to Protect Workers in Extreme Heat

By Martha Pskowski

A sign warns of dangerous hydrogen sulfide gas at a drilling site in the Permian Basin in August 2023. Exposure to high concentrations of the gas can be lethal. Credit: Martha Pskowski/Inside Climate News

Texas Oilfield Company and Executive Plead Guilty in Hydrogen Sulfide Deaths

By Martha Pskowski

A worker adjusts his helmet on a construction site under the sun in Los Angeles as southern California faces a heatwave on July 3, 2024. Credit: Etienne Laurent/AFP via Getty Images

Trump Guts Agency Critical to Worker Safety as Temperatures Rise

By Liza Gross

A construction crew works on a train station during a hot day in Yucatán, Mexico on Aug. 31, 2023. Credit: Rodrigo Oropeza/AFP via Getty Images

Heat Is Claiming Mexico’s Young People

By Humberto Basilio

A vendor sells ice as people try to stay cool during a heatwave on June 19 in Newark, New Jersey. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

New Jersey Is the Latest State to Consider Heat Protections for Workers

By Emilie Lounsberry

The Syncrude oil sands mining complex at night, as drawn by Kate Beaton in her 2022 graphic memoir, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands. Credit: copyright Kate Beaton. Courtesy Drawn & Quarterly.

Q&A: Kate Beaton Describes the Toll Taken by Alberta’s Oil Sands on Wildlife and the Workers Who Mine the Viscous Crude  

President Joe Biden speaks during a conference call on climate change with the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate on Sept. 17, 2021 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Al Drago/Getty Images

Biden Administration Unveils Plan to Protect Workers and Communities from Extreme Heat

By Liza Gross

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