California struggles to protect its health care workers as they fight the pandemic.
Among Future of Work Commission members, there has been more talk about the impact of the gig economy than the implications of artificial intelligence.
Guns spewed lead dust. Child gymnasts trained. California regulators failed to act.
Battery recycling is considered one of the most potentially hazardous industries. Yet Vernon’s Exide workers were routinely being poisoned with nearly nonexistent intervention by Cal/OSHA.
California's Department of Public Health and Cal/OSHA failed to protect workers from lead contamination at a battery recycling plant.
How an agency charged with protecting public health gave talking points to the lead-battery industry.
Health officials took eight days to send letters to parents of children possibly contaminated by lead. And not everyone received a letter.
Guns spewed lead dust. Child gymnasts trained. California regulators failed to act.
The problem in California doesn’t appear to lie with finding out about lead-poisoned workers, but with what happens -- or doesn't happen -- when some state...
Why would Disneyland, which hosts thousands of kids every day, be part of an effort to defeat a bill that simply requires reporting of blood-lead levels...
Battery recycling is considered one of the most potentially hazardous industries. Yet Vernon's Exide workers were routinely being poisoned with nearly nonexistent intervention by Cal/OSHA.
California's Department of Public Health and Cal/OSHA didn't protect workers from lead contamination at a battery recycling plant. A state Assembly member will hold hearings for...
Public records lawsuits are time consuming, requiring an attorney who believes the case is one for which it is worth going to the mat. But occasionally...
Promise after promise was broken when it came to protecting Sacramento's workers and the public from lead hazards from a contaminated gun range housed in an...
A year-long Capital & Main investigation has found substantial evidence to suggest that Sacramento's lead-contaminated public gun range was, at the very least, incompetently run and,...
A Capital & Main investigation has found that state health officials were aware of lead poisoning cases at Sacramento's contaminated Mangan Park Gun Range 13 years...
Today Capital & Main publishes an investigative series on the failure of Sacramento and two state agencies to safeguard the public from the hazards of lead.
On November 15 Mangan Park residents got more bad news. Homes near the neighborhood’s public gun range were discovered to also have been contaminated by lead,...
Last April, residents of Sacramento’s working-class Mangan Park neighborhood were invited by city officials to a meeting to discuss a health scare involving the presence of...
As the June 15th deadline for a California budget approaches, Kevin McCarty finds himself a power broker in a fight over billions of dollars of funding...