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Heat News
- 02/29/2024 Marketplace: Farmworkers are making — and enforcing — the strongest heat protection rules in the country
- 02/27/2024 Scientific American: Florida Considers Banning Local Heat Protections for Workers
- 02/27/2024 Politico: Florida Republicans’ war on the war on heat
- 02/20/2024 Environmental Health News: Florida farmworkers spearhead nation’s most stringent heat safety measures in agriculture
- 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
- 02/15/2024 CA Senator Cortese: Senator Cortese’s bill will provide fast relief for heat-injured farm workers
- 01/30/2024 Daily Kos: Florida GOP wants to block heat protection for workers. Good thing it’s never hot there
- 01/29/2024 Grist: As summers grow ever hotter, OSHA appears ready to protect workers
- 01/27/2024 AZ Central: Arizona lawmaker files bill to protect workers from heat after Yuma farmworker death
- 01/10/2024 Blue Book Services: Pollution increases heat-related farmworker danger
- 01/07/2024 Medpage Today: It’s High Time to Protect Farmworkers From Heat-Related Illness and Death
- 12/31/2023 Mother Jones: Excessive Heat and Air Pollution Are Putting Farmworkers’ Lives at Risk
- 12/30/2023 AZ Central: In Yuma, farmworkers’ struggle with heat is worsened by inadequate housing
- 12/18/2023 Earth Beat: Bishop says climate change affects farms, migrants in Washington state
- 12/16/2023 King 5: New rules protecting Washington workers from wildfire smoke will start in January
- 11/19/2023 NC Health News: Migrant worker’s death prompts calls for extreme heat labor laws
- 11/14/2023 WFAE 90.7: Migrant worker’s death prompts calls for extreme-heat labor laws
- 11/13/2023 Workers Are Dying From the Heat: Why Is It so Hard to Protect Them?
- 11/13/2023 North Carolina Health News: Migrant worker’s death prompts calls for extreme heat labor laws
- 11/13/2023 KQED: How Central Valley Farmworker Communities Are Tackling Climate Change
- 11/06/2023 The Washington Post: This county could create the strictest workplace heat rules in the U.S.
- 11/02/2023 Islander News: After death of two farmworkers, Miami-Dade could be first County to mandate heat-related protections for outdoor workers
- 11/02/2023 Earthjustice: In Shocking Decision, 8th Circuit Sends Chlorpyrifos Food Use Ban Back to EPA