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NIOSH has laid off or put on leave two-thirds of its staff, potentially risking valuable biological samples and research due to lack of maintenance and instructions.
Most Americans learned what an N95 mask was during the COVID-19 pandemic. But what many still don’t know is that every one of them was certified by a single, government-run lab in Bruceton, Allegheny ...
Workers who recently lost their jobs at the National Institute for Occupational Safety say they’re concerned that there’s no ...
The lab has halted almost all of its regular work and is preparing to shut down in June. That’s because of the most recent ...
NIOSH has punched far above its weight. It has done its work on a budget of less than $2 per year per worker, making it one of the nation’s most cost-effective and efficient agencies in all of ...
Former NIOSH employees are continuing to speak out against federal cuts that will negatively impact coal miner safety in West ...
Protesters gathered last Wednesday afternoon near the beleaguered National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) in Morgantown to protest the recent layoff of 200 people from the ...
The Trump administration and DOGE laid off 25 federal workers who were responsible for the one program America's coal miners ...
As a physician who specializes in occupational health, I have worked closely with colleagues at the National Institutes of ...
The Trump administration’s feckless business-first, workers-last approach is leaving the nation’s coal miners to die—and now ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — West Virginia Second District Congressman Riley Moore says the Trump administration made a mistake in ...