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A select subcommittee is examining whether OSHA failed to act to protect meatpacking during the pandemic.

Meat-processing plants, where thousands of workers have fallen ill with COVID-19, are facing scrutiny from a U.S. House subcommittee for reportedly failing to follow worker safety laws.

Workers are shown leaving the Tyson Foods pork processing plant in Logansport, Ind., in May. A House subcommittee is investigating the Trump administration's handling of COVID-19 outbreaks at meatpacking plants, focusing on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration as well as major companies Tyson, Smithfield and JBS. A U.S. House subcommittee is investigating coronavirus outbreaks at meatpacking plants, citing the deaths of more than 250 employees nationwide and accusing the Trump administration of failing to enforce worker safety laws. Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., chairman of the Sel...

In a Major Move Away From Fossil Fuels, General Motors Aims to Stop Selling Gasoline Cars and SUVs by 2035 The corporation’s zero emission goal is based on technological advances that have lowered the cost of electric vehicles and policies requiring emissions cuts, analysts say. January 29, 2021 General Motors Chairman and CEO Mary Barra speaks on March 22, 2019 in Lake Orion, Michigan. The company announced on Thursday it aims to stop selling gasoline and diesel vehicles by 2035. Credit: Bill Pugliano/Getty Images Related Share this article General Motors, the largest U.S. automaker and lo...

Inside Clean Energy: What Lauren Boebert Gets Wrong About Pueblo and Paris Pueblo, Colorado, is already a leader in the transition from fossil fuels. January 28, 2021 An employee walks in front of two smoke stacks at the Comanche Power Station on Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011. Credit: AAron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post via Getty Images Related Share this article There is a trope among U.S. opponents of the Paris agreement that former President Trump helped to popularize in 2017 when he said, “I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris.” It would be easy to brush off Trump’s...