United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Heat News
- 07/23/2023 The New York Times: Rising Heat Deaths Are Not Just About the Temperature
- 07/23/2023 CBS News: Brutal heat wave tests farm workers, many of whom lack legal protections
- 07/21/2023 The Wall Street Journal: When Is It Too Hot to Work Outside?
- 07/21/2023 WAPT ABC 10: Excessive summer heat putting stress on Mississippi farmers, livestock, crops
- 07/21/2023 WFLA News Channel 8: South Florida heat protection ordinance passes after farmworker’s death
- 07/20/2023 Calls for change after Florida farmworker, 29, dies in heat. ‘Is that what we deserve?’
- 07/20/2023 NBC News: South Florida mourns death of another farmworker as advocates fight for heat protections:
- 07/20/2023 CNN: Texas troopers told to push back migrants into Rio Grande and ordered not to give water amid soaring temperatures, report says
- 07/19/2023 CBS News Miami: Homestead farmworker dies because of extreme heat
- 07/17/2023 Miami Herald: This heat is deadly. Miami-Dade agricultural workers deserve water, shade, rest | Opinion
- 07/17/2023 Miami Herald: Business Labor contractor could’ve prevented worker’s heat-related death in Broward, OSHA says
- 07/14/2023 KVPR: As California heat wave intensifies, farmworkers are bearing the brunt
- 07/12/2023 Oregon Public Broadcasting: It’s hot. For farmworkers without federal heat protections, it could be life or death
- 07/12/2023 The White House: FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Takes Action to Protect Communities from Extreme Heat Fueled by the Climate Crisis
- 07/11/2023 BE Latina: Farm Workers Continue To Be In Danger: Battling Extreme Heat in the Fields
- 07/11/2023 ABC Action News: Florida farm workers take extra steps to stay cool on the job
- 07/10/2023 NPR: It’s hot. For farmworkers without federal heat protections, it could be life or death
- 07/10/2023 KQED: California’s Farmworkers Are on the Front Lines of Climate Change
- 07/10/2023 WOUB: It’s hot. For farmworkers without federal heat protections, it could be life or death
- 07/08/2023 Spectrum News NY1: Climate change ratchets up the stress on farmworkers on the front lines of a warming Earth
- 07/08/2023 The Goshen News: Climate change ratchets up the stress on farmworkers on the front lines of a warming Earth
- 07/07/2023 Herald Chronicle: Heat-Farmworker Exposure
- 07/05/2023 The Washington Post: Heat is a mortal threat to farmworkers. A nurse may have found a way to protect them.
- 07/05/2023 Occupational Health & Safety: Death of Worker, Who Spoke of Heat-Illness-Related Symptom, Could Have Been Prevented, OSHA Says
- 07/04/2023 KSBW 8: For farmworkers in California, a hot day in the fields can be a dangerous one