On the picket line
Nurses organize
National Nurses United reported the nurses at Maine Medical Center successfully voted to unionize. The 2,000 nurses will be represented by Maine State Nurses Association (MSNU) and NNU. Maine Medical Center is the largest health care facility in the state.
Meanwhile, St. Vincent nurses in Worcester, Mass., are still on the picket line. The nurses’ strike began March 8 and is presently the longest strike in the country. The top demand of the nurses is safer staffing.
The current staffing ratio at St. Vincent is often 1 nurse to 5 patients or (1-5). The patient load is above the NNU recommended staffing ratio and would be deemed unsafe by current best practice standards. For example, a nurse should only be caring for one critical care patient (1-1), while a nurse can be assigned multiple patients who are less acutely ill.
Scottsboro is stated to operate a secondary aluminum processing facility (“Facility”) in Jackson County, Alabama.
The Facility includes an aluminum scrap dryer operated pursuant to the authority of Air Permit No. 705-0030-X006 (“Permit”). Emissions from the aluminum scrap dryer are stated to be controlled by a baghouse.
ADEM is stated to have conducted an inspection of the Facility on September 29, 2020. The CO provides that Scottsboro was operating the aluminum scrap dryer without its associated baghouse and without temporary authorization to operate as required by certain provisions of the Permit.
Scottsboro is stated to have responded to an ADEM Notice of Violation indicating the Facility had operated the aluminum scrap dryer for a total of 289 hours without the associated baghouse and without temporary authorization to operate between June 27, 2020, and September 29, 2020. The scrap dryer was stated to have been shut down on September 29, 2020, and began operating with
Alabama Coal Mine Seems to Be Leaking Pollution While Its Workers Are on Strike
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A drone photo shows dark pollution in Davis Creek. (Photo: John L. Wathen, Hurricane Creekkeepe)
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It’s sunny and in the mid-70s in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama right now. Normally, that would be prime conditions for a swim in Davis Creek or Texas Creek. But right now, both are running black, full of thick wastewater runoff.
Photo: John L. Wathen, Hurricane Creekkeepe
It’s sunny and in the mid-70s in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama right now. Normally, that would be prime conditions for a swim in Davis Creek or Texas Creek. But right now, both are running black, full of thick wastewater runoff.
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The Alabama Department of Environmental Management has been receiving complaints about the pollution in the water bodies and is currently investigating the cause of it. The Alabama Surface Mining Commission has sent environmental regulators to check it out, too. But Nelson Brooke the riverkeeper for the Black Warrior River, which both creeks flow into has done his own investigation, and is sure he knows where the pollution is coming from.
The Rainsville City Council on Monday held public hearings to discuss the rezoning of Ranch Road, Peaceful Acres subdivision and Britany Owens subdivision.
Mayor Rodger Lingerfelt said notices were sent out to adjoining land residents and opened the floor for discussion.
Housing partners John McCallie and Carlton W. Edwards of Scottsboro attended the hearing with an interest in the rezoning of Ranch Road from M-1 Industrial to R-3 Residential.
âWe have a contract to purchase this property and have requested the rezoning,â said McCallie. âOur purchase of the properties contingent with the Alabama Boys and Girls Sheriff Ranches.
He said they plan on building a âlittle bit more upper scale homesâ on larger size lots.