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June 20, 1977
Oil began traveling through the Alaska pipeline. Seventy thousand people worked on building the pipeline, history’s largest privately financed construction project. 
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Maryland Becomes the First East Coast State to Adopt Worker Heat Protections
Posted On: Oct 01, 2024
Oct. 1, 2024 | HEALTH & SAFETY | Maryland’s newly published and adopted heat standard, which goes into effect Monday, requires all workers to have access to water, shade and rest breaks when temperatures exceed 80 degrees — joining just a handful of other states that have standards protecting workers from extreme heat. Maryland’s heat standard, which is nearly four years in the making, could have saved someone like Ronald Silver II, a Baltimore sanitation worker whose on-the-job death was first reported by WYPR. He died of hyperthermia, or heat exhaustion, as confirmed by the Maryland Office of the Medical Examiner. There is no federal heat standard, although the Biden administration proposed one earlier this year. It could still be months before it is passed — and a new presidential administration could derail it altogether. The Baltimore Banner
 
 
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