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News Coverage
- 09/03/2018 KPBS (CA): Meet Teresa Romero, The United Farm Workers First Woman President
- 09/02/2018 Winona Daily News (MNhttps://www.winonadailynews.com/news/local/frank-bures-what-is-chlorpyrifos-and-its-controversy/article_7003cf6c-9893-56d5-ba5c-5188eaa6b66e.html): Frank Bures: What is chlorpyrifos and its controversy?
- 09/02/2018 Gainesville Sun (FL): National group pushes to protect heat-exposed workers
- 09/02/2018 Bakersfeld.com (CA): JOSE GASPAR: New UFW president — just the third, and a woman — rolls up her sleeves
- 08/29/2018 KQED FORUM: A Change of Leadership at United Farm Workers Union
- 08/28/2018 NBC News: Teresa Romero, a Mexican immigrant, will be United Farm Workers’ first female president
- 08/28/2018 USA Today: The farmworker union’s president is stepping down. Its new president is an immigrant woman.
- 08/28/2018 Vida en el Valle: UFW selects Teresa Romero first Latina immigrant woman to replace Arturo Rodríguez who is stepping down as president of the union
- 08/28/2018 Ch 23 ABC: United Farm Workers president stepping down, replaced by first Latina and immigrant woman president
- 08/28/2018 LA Times: The longtime head of the UFW is stepping down. His replacement will be the first woman to lead the union
- 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 Northwest Public Broadcasting (NPR): In MeToo Era, A Yakima Valley Dairy Worker Finds Her Voice.
- 08/24/2018 Kansas City Star: Company housed Missouri farmworkers in ‘inhumane and unhealthy’ former county jail
- 08/24/2018 New York Times: Pesticide Studies Won E.P.A.’s Trust, Until Trump’s Team Scorned ‘Secret Science’
- 08/24/2018 Mother Jones: Farmworkers Are Dying from Extreme Heat
- 08/23/2018 NPR: When The U.S. Government Tried To Replace Migrant Farmworkers With High Schoolers
- 08/20/2018 Seattle Times: Darigold says it’s working to improve dairy industry’s safety – Audits, other efforts aim to change an injury rate significantly worse than the state’s agricultural sector as a whole.
- 08/20/2018 High Country News: California’s farmworkers face illness and death in the fields
- 08/17/2018 Salinas Californian: Tanimura & Antle faces fines over care of farmworkers ill in suspected pesticide exposure
- 08/10/2018 KPIX CBS San Francisco Bay Area: Fed Court in S.F. Orders Pesticide Ban, Says EPA Violated Law
- 08/10/2018 Los Angeles Times: Appeals court orders Trump administration to ban pesticide harmful to children’s brains within 60 days
- 08/09/2018 Huffington Post: Huffington Post: Court Orders EPA To Ban Chlorpyrifos, A Pesticide Linked To Brain Damage In Kids
- 08/09/2018 Los Angeles Times: Appeals court orders Trump administration to ban pesticide harmful to children’s brains within 60 days
- 08/09/2018 Kansas City Star: Company housed Missouri farmworkers in ‘inhumane and unhealthy’ former county jail
- 08/09/2018 WRAL: Court Orders EPA to Ban Chlorpyrifos, Pesticide Tied to Children’s Health Problems