In 1917 a young female right out of high school started working at a radium factory in Orange, New Jersey. The job was mixing water, glue and radium powder for the task of painting watch dials, aircraft switches, and instrument dials. The paint is newly inventive and cool so without hesitation she paints her nails and lips with her friends all the while not knowing that this paint that is making them radiant, is slowly killing them. This was the life of Grace Fryer. Today there are trepidations
effective on February 4, 1989 (Department of Labor, 2013). Unlike other laws that are enforced by certain government or federal agencies, the WARN Act in which an employee, their representative, or a government official has the right to sue in a United States District Court in order to enforce the act. The Department of Labor (DOL) has no authority to enforce the WARN Act, but does have authority to disseminate the regulations. There are many implications that has been mandated under the WARN Act where
In 1925 the first charges were levied against the United States Radium Corporation by a small group of five radium girls. “A few had already settled; more were afraid to take on a big corporation; sure that they’d lose the jobs they held now, that they’d lose in the courts anyway” (Blum). These thoughts were justified, as the Radium Corporation did not kindly react to accusations. They used political red tape to extend negotiations, which led to a trial date in 1928, three years after the initial
Radium, once thought of as an elixir of health, masks unknown and deadly dangers. In “The Poisoner's Handbook: Killer Chemistry”, it discusses the case of the Radium Girls, specifically Amelia Magia. Amelia was one of the workers employed by the United States Radium Corporation in the 1920s. She and her co-workers were tasked with painting watch dials with radium-based paint. Unfortunately, they did not know about the dangers of radium and were encouraged to lick their paint brushes to keep them
The United States as well as the rest of the world are dealing with the issue that the world supply of oil is dwindling. Ever since our peak consumption year in 2005 the United States has been a major consumer of crude oil and petroleum products. As of 2012 according to the U.S Energy Information Administration “The United States consumed 18.6 million barrels per day of petroleum products, making us the world’s largest petroleum consumer.” The U.S. has long been dependent on foreign petroleum products
Introduction The Navajo Nations geology makes it one of the riches deposit sites for uranium and other nonrenewable resources. Uranium is a naturally occurring element in trace amounts in the earth’s crust and has been used for many different purposes. In the last century the uranium ore was used extensively by the federal government for atomic energy defenses. Uranium mine operators removed nearly four million tons of ore from 1944 to 1986 resulting in 520 abandoned uranium mines on the Navajo
that can affect the population. There is some history behind how fracking first started. It doesn’t just happen via machine or man, it can happen through a natural geological process (Hyder). In this article, it states, “In the late 1940s, geologists at Stanolind Oil and Gas Corporation investigated the use of hydraulic fracturing to release oil and gas trapped in source rock.” While this first process was unsuccessful, Hydraulic Fracturing is a relatively new technique that has been around for roughly
advantages to using natural gas but the way in which it is being extracted has caused many people to become sick. The detrimental environmental impacts caused by hydraulic fracturing continue to rise. Not to mention the political pull on big corporations and water quality standards. Currently in the Marcellus shale in Pennsylvania and the Barnett shale in Texas, the air and water quality have diminished over the past years since drilling sites ran rampant. Natural gas is natural in terms of how