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Heat News
- 09/04/2018 Union of Concerned Scientists: Heat Waves and Climate Change: What the Science Tells Us about Extreme Heat Events (2018)
- 09/02/2018 Gainesville Sun (FL): National group pushes to protect heat-exposed workers
- 09/01/2018 Quartz: Extreme heat is killing America’s farm workers
- 08/27/2018 Nexus Media: Extreme Heat Is Killing Farm Workers. The Government Doesn’t Have a Plan to Protect Them. (VIDEO)
- 08/24/2018 Mother Jones: Farmworkers Are Dying from Extreme Heat
- 08/20/2018 High Country News: California’s farmworkers face illness and death in the fields
- 08/03/2018 Street Roots News: The hands that feed us
- 07/18/2018 EcoWatch: Protect Workers From Extreme Heat, Advocates Urge OSHA
- 07/17/2018 NY Daily News: Put the heat on the feds: OSHA must do more to protect workers from rising temperatures
- 07/17/2018 Remarks by UFW President Arturo S. Rodriguez on National Heat Stress Campaign teleconference, July 17, 2018
- 04/23/2018 Scientific American: Precarious Life of Texas Farmworkers Becomes Riskier with Warming
- 08/08/2017 The Nation: Over 3000 New Yorkers Could Die From Summer Heat Each Year by 2080
- 06/26/2017 California Ag Today: Heat Wave Puts Renewed Focus on Worker Safety
- 06/22/2017 Stockton Record (CA): Searing temperatures pose risks for farmworkers
- 06/16/2017 KWEQ (CA): High temperatures affecting local workers outside
- 12/01/2015 The Desert Sun (CA): Our Voice: Officials must protect farmworkers from heat
- 11/25/2015 The Desert Sun: Farmworker safety: Cal/OSHA responds
- 11/20/2015 Daily Kos: Heat kills California farmworkers, but the state won’t always admit it
- 11/19/2015 Desert Sun: Death in the Fields, Part 3
- 11/19/2015 The Desert Sun: Death in The Fields, Part 2
- 11/19/2015 The Desert Sun: Death in The Fields — CALIFORNIA FARMWORKERS SUFFER MORE HEAT DEATHS AND ILLNESSES THAN ANY OTHER WORKERS IN OUTDOOR INDUSTRIES
- 09/09/2015 Manteca Bulletin (WI): You think It’s hot? Ask a farmer worker
- 09/03/2015 Think Progress: A Whole Lot Of California Farmworkers Are Landing In The Hospital. Why?
- 07/28/2015 Univision, Despierta America: ¡Qué calor! Recomendaciones para trabajar en condiciones climáticas extremas (video)
- 06/23/2015 Presidente de la UFW a la Casa Blanca: El cambio climático no puede ser más importante que cambiar las vidas de lo que nos alimentan