Tell Congress: Protect farm workers now!
Environmental News
- 04/26/2023 Direct Relief: Health Centers Become First Responders During California’s Pajaro and Watsonville Flood
- 04/04/2023 abc 7: CA farmworkers struggle to recover from January’s devastating storms
- 03/22/2023 Civil Eats: Paraquat, the Deadliest Chemical in US Agriculture, Goes on Trial
- 03/21/2023 Lookout: Growers and farmworkers face long recovery process following Pajaro floods
- 03/18/2023 KQED: ‘We Have Nothing’: Pajaro Farmworkers Face the Prospect of No Income at Start of Harvesting Season
- 03/08/2023 CBS San Francisco: Gilroy Farm Workers Devastated By January Storms Worry About Approaching Atmospheric River
- 03/02/2023 WBUR: Rural communities of color and farmworkers are most vulnerable to pesticide exposure
- 02/27/2023 abc 23 Bakersfield: Advocates ask California to ban cancer-causing pesticide Talon
- 02/18/2023 Napa Valley Register: Disasters show California needs bigger safety net for farmworkers, advocates say
- 02/17/2023 Cap Radio: Floods, fires, droughts show California needs bigger safety net for farmworkers, advocates say
- 02/16/2023 The Hill: Biden EPA proposes restoring pesticide protections for farmworkers rolled back under Trump
- 02/13/2023 KION 5/46: Farmers and farmworkers forced off farmland for weeks after storms flooded crops
- 02/08/2023 Environmental Health News: Mobilizing against pesticides from the ground up
- 02/06/2023 KALW One Planet: What will it take to improve the health and safety of farmworkers?
- 02/04/2023 Union-Bulletin: California’s ‘most disadvantaged’ workers have widespread chronic health issues, study finds
- 02/04/2023 CalMatters: California farmworkers cope with wildfire smoke, pesticides, roaches and rodents, survey says
- 01/28/2023 KION 46: California hopes to eliminate high-risk pesticides by 2050
- 01/21/2023 Los Angeles Times: Storm flooding compounds misery for California farms and workers
- 01/19/2023 Indybay: Farmworker communities call on the State to Rewrite Regulation of Cancer-Causing Pesticide
- 12/31/2022 Daily Kos: Support for farmworkers is an essential part of climate change policy
- 12/23/2022 KION 5/46: Paraquat considered deadliest pesticide used by farmworkers in Monterey County
- 12/08/2022 KION 5/46: SPECIAL REPORT: Organization fights to increase protection against pesticides near schools on the Central Coast
- 11/28/2022 Food Tank: Current Laws Fail to Protect Farm Workers from Pesticides
- 11/22/2022 CalMatters: Why California must end the use of herbicide linked to cancer, Parkinson’s
- 11/03/2022 KVPR: Amid California’s three-year drought, a San Joaquin Valley farmworker considers seeking work outside the region