Report urges hazmat inspection improvement
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WASHINGTON -- The government needs to do a better job monitoring and inspecting hazardous materials shipped aboard airlines, according to a report released Friday by the Transportation Department&#39;s inspector general.
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By From staff reports  The City Council's housing panel is retooling a proposal to make apart-ment inspections more effective.  The city had considered reinstating regular inspections with a yearly licensing program funded by fees.
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Government lawyers have hampered investigations into suspected waste and fraud at the Department of Homeland Security, officials told a House subcommittee yesterday.
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Coroner investigating deaths of four British soldiers killed in Iraq will press government to improve protection of vehicles
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States have made some improvements in bioterrorism preparedness since 2001, but most remain &quot;woefully unprepared&quot; to respond to a bioterrorist attack or public health emergency, according to a report released on Tuesday by the Trust for America&#39;s Health.
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The California produce company at the center of the recent E. coli outbreak announced steps Thursday to improve its food safety inspections.
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Requiring doctors and hospitals to report publicly on their performance and tying their pay to the results would dramatically reduce avoidable deaths and costs attributable to poor medical care, says a new report from an organization that works to improve
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U.S. regulators have yet to complete  an advanced system for fully analyzing crash data to identify  defects four years after the deadly Firestone tire debacle  prompted an overhaul of federal auto safety oversight, a  government watchdog said on Friday.
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A human rights group says the United States needs to need act faster and more transparently in its investigation into the abuse of prisoners held by the US military in Afghanistan.
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By Carol Eisenberg, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Jun. 13--WASHINGTON -- Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff   yesterday urged operators of water and waste treatment plants to secure chemicals such as chlorine from terrorists, although they're not required to do so.
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LOS ANGELES - The federal monitor overseeing Police Department reform said improvements have been made in internal auditing procedures and investigation techniques into officers accused of using deadly force.
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Communication. Trust. Leadership. A report by the Interior Department inspector general, released this month, provides a glimpse of how these issues can arise in agencies that have to manage a workforce spread across the country.
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MILTON, Ont. (CP) - Manufacturers, importers and other industries are on notice about 17 more toxic substances the federal government wants to better control.
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Top federal safety officials urged the Labor Department in 2006 to adopt critical regulations to prevent deadly dust explosions Â like the one suspected in the deadly blast in a Georgia sugar plant Thursday Â but the government has failed to do so.
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An environmental group says oil and gas wells in five western states aren't being inspected often enough, and the inspections that are done are more likely for production than ecological concerns.
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A preliminary report from the President's Identity Theft Task Force recommends such improvements as a nationally accepted police report for victims to file online, as well as better government data-handling practices and stiffer penalties for thieves.
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The report on performance-enhancing drug use in baseball outlines a general road map for improving its drug testing system, but prescribes no timetable and few specific directives.