Author: Jorge Orrantia
- 02/20/2024 Inside Climate News: California Pesticide Regulators’ Lax Oversight Violates Civil Rights Laws, Coalition Charges
- 02/18/2024 Nottingham MD: Attorney General Brown takes steps to protect workers from occupational heat exposure
- 02/17/2024 The Washington Post: These farmworkers created America’s strongest workplace heat rules
- 02/16/2024 Science Direct: “No matter how hot it is, you just have to do the work”: Examining farmworkers’ experiences with heat and climate change in Idaho
- 02/16/2024 Lookout Santa Cruz: Coalition plans federal lawsuit over pesticide exposure across California — including in Santa Cruz County
- 02/15/2024 CA Senator Cortese: Senator Cortese’s bill will provide fast relief for heat-injured farm workers
- 02/15/2024 KION 46: Farmworker activists continue to protest the use of pesticides, claiming these chemicals lead to cancer and other illnesses
- 02/14/2024 RFK Human Rights: N.Y. farm workers are being denied their rights
- 02/13/2024 Beyond Pesticides: EPA’s Worker Protection Standard Fails to Protect Farmworkers’ Health, Report Finds
- 02/13/2024 USA Herald: Farmworkers Union Takes Stand Against Bid To Halt NY Agricultural Law
- 02/09/2024 Jacobin: New York Growers Are Fighting Farmworkers’ Right to Organize
- 02/07/2024 Civil Eats: A Florida Immigration Law Is Turning Farm Towns Into ‘Ghost Towns’
- 02/07/2024 CalMatters: Is California’s workplace safety agency protecting farmworkers? Legislators want to know
- 02/06/2024 Laredo Morning Times: Council gives approval for Laredo street to honor Cesar Chavez
- 02/06/2024 Crosscut: Despite industry pushback, WA farmworkers will keep overtime pay
- 01/30/2024 Earthjustice: EPA Ignores the Science Linking Widely Used Herbicide to Parkinson’s Disease
- 01/30/2024 Daily Kos: Florida GOP wants to block heat protection for workers. Good thing it’s never hot there
- 01/29/2024 Capital Press: Washington farmworkers rally against overtime law
- 01/29/2024 Grist: As summers grow ever hotter, OSHA appears ready to protect workers
- 01/28/2024 The Bakersfield Californian: JOSE GASPAR: Writer continues mission to find families of nameless ‘Deportee’ plane crash victims
- 01/27/2024 AZ Central: Arizona lawmaker files bill to protect workers from heat after Yuma farmworker death
- 01/26/2024 King 5 News: Farm workers fight new overtime law in Washington
- 01/26/2024 Source ONE News: New Bill Aims to Enhance Wage Protection for Farmworkers in WA
- 01/22/2024 KCRA: Modesto mural honors advocates for farmworkers’ rights
- 01/21/2024 23ABC News Bakersfield: César E. Chávez National Monument honors life and legacy of Helen Chavez