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Heat News
- 09/09/2024 Tucson Sentinel: Health Secretary Becerra touts extreme heat protections. Farmworkers want more.
- 09/07/2024 Sierra Sun Times: California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas and Legislative Colleagues Deliver Farmworker Protections for Housing and Extreme Heat to Governor Gavin Newsom
- 09/06/2024 The Guardian: Heatwave across US west breaks records for highest temperatures
- 09/04/2024 E&E News: Coroners ignore heat in many deaths. That’s dangerous.
- 09/02/2024 Santa Cruz Sentinel: ‘Brutal’ trade-offs keep some South Bay farmworkers laboring in dangerous heat
- 08/30/2024 Public Comment period now open for first nationwide heat safety rule
- 08/30/2024 NBC News: Experimental sensors aim to detect early signs of heatstroke and warn farmworkers
- 08/27/2024 Mercury News: ‘Brutal’ trade-offs keep some South Bay farmworkers laboring in dangerous heat
- 08/26/2024 NBC Chicago: Farm workers battle extremely hot conditions
- 08/21/2024 Capital & Main: California Legislators Say New Laws Must Protect Farmworkers From Extreme Heat
- 08/20/2024 NBC News: New effort to protect workers who struggle in stifling heat
- 08/17/2024 Wildfire Today: California put wine industry profits above farmworker safety during 2020 wildfires, study finds
- 08/15/2024 Los Angeles Times: California cuts back on safety enforcement as farmworkers toil in extreme heat
- 08/15/2024 Weather Bug: Wildfires are Growing Under Climate Change, and Their Smoke Threatens Farmworkers, Study Says
- 08/15/2024 The Daily Climate: Wildfires expose farmworkers to dangerous smoke as climate change intensifies
- 08/15/2024 PBS: Wildfires are growing under climate change, and the smoke is threatening farmworkers, new study says
- 08/15/2024 Democracy Now: Unions Organize “Heat Week” as Extreme Temperatures Pose Mounting Dangers to Workers
- 08/14/2024 Grist: Workers across the US rally after string of heat-related deaths
- 08/13/2024 The Guardian: US workers launch Heat Week to fight for ‘the right to water, shade and rest’
- 08/13/2024 Rochester Beacon: Workers, farms enter binding arbitration
- 08/12/2024 Politico: Biden admin pushing farmworker regs
- 08/12/2024 KCRA: Lawmaker pushes for stronger agricultural heat safety compliance after firing of 6 Yolo farmworkers
- 08/12/2024 Farm worker Lourdes Cardenas speaks at #HeatWeek kickoff
- 08/09/2024 Stocktonia: Californians say they were fired for leaving their jobs in sweltering heat. Is the state on their side?
- 08/09/2024 Click Orlando: ‘Essential to our society:’ Leaders push for OSHA heat protection standards for workers