Hiroko Tabuchi
Pollution and Environmental Costs Reporter at The New York Times
New York Times climate and environment reporter | Kobe native, Harlem transplant | I also tweet about Japan | ニューヨーク・タイムズ記者 地球温暖化・環境問題 担当
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nytimes.com | Hiroko Tabuchi
For years, UPS truck drivers asked the delivery giant to install air-conditioning in its ubiquitous brown vans. The company resisted, even as temperatures climbed and drivers suffered from heatstroke. Now, David Keeling, a former health and safety executive at UPS who some workers blame for the inaction, is President Trump’s pick to lead the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the federal agency that regulates workplace safety.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Hiroko Tabuchi
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI, which runs the Grok chatbot, is facing a legal challenge led by the NAACP over air pollution from its supercomputer facility in Memphis. xAI’s South Memphis data center, near predominantly Black neighborhoods, has been operating natural-gas-burning turbines without the proper permits, the NAACP alleged in a notice of an intent to sue filed on Tuesday.
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1 week ago |
pressdemocrat.com | Hiroko Tabuchi
The Trump administration plans to reconsider a ban on the last type of asbestos still used in the United States, according to a court filing Monday. The move, which could halt enforcement of the ban for several years during the reconsideration, is a major blow to a decades-long battle by health advocates to prohibit the carcinogenic mineral in all its forms.
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1 week ago |
flipboard.com | Hiroko Tabuchi |Ken Belson
2 hours agoMy sister had only been gone for a few hours and the AI afterlife had already devoured her. Jamie went into the hospital with stomach pain on a Friday last January. By Tuesday morning, she had passed away from an aggressive lymphoma at 36. Later that afternoon, my mom got a text about a suspicious …
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nytimes.com | Hiroko Tabuchi |Ken Belson
The seminar seemed straightforward enough. Four experts planned to talk about whether artificial grass, which is used on playgrounds and sports fields nationwide, has health risks for children. But January’s seminar never happened, after the four speakers were sued for defamation by Polyloom, an artificial-turf maker, based on promotional material for the seminar.
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