United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News and Events
- 01/10/2018 Consortium News: Pesticide Use Threatens Health in California
- 01/10/2018 Huffington Post: Trump’s EPA Could Allow Teenage Workers To Handle Dangerous Pesticides
- 01/10/2018 UFW Foundation: Trump’s promises to Dreamers ‘utterly sabotaged’ by White House aide Miller & new Goodlatte bill
- 01/09/2018 California Health Report: A Common Pesticide Classified as a Developmental Toxicant
- 01/09/2018 Center for Biological Diversity: Court Rejects California’s Blanket Approval for Pesticide Spraying
- 01/07/2018 Don’t let Trump’s radical mass-deportation push hold immigrant youth hostage
- 01/03/2018 Capital and Main: Serfing USA: New ‘Bracero’ Bill Could Cut Agriculture Workers’ Rights and Wages
- 01/02/2018 Los Angeles Times: More workers say their bosses are threatening to have them deported
- 12/28/2017 Esther Uranday was one of the pioneering women who helped build the UFW
- 12/28/2017 Safety+Health Magazine: EPA takes steps to further delay pesticide standard, rule
- 12/28/2017 Common Dreams: America’s Farmworkers Face Poverty, Neglect, and Now Deportation
- 12/27/2017 America: The Jesuit Magazine: The Editors: What we owe America’s farmworkers
- 12/27/2017 KQED (CA): After pesticide incidents sicken farmworkers, advocates push to make penalties stronger
- 12/27/2017 KQED (CA): After pesticide incidents sicken farmworkers, advocates push to make penalties stronger
- 12/21/2017 Mother Jones: Drifting Pesticides Keep Making California Farm Workers Sick
- 12/21/2017 PLOS: Will buffer zones around schools in agricultural areas be adequate to protect children from the potential adverse effects of pesticide exposure?
- 12/20/2017 E&E News: Interior, EPA curb ‘science’ and ‘evidence’ in budget docs
- 12/20/2017 UFW, Gerawan workers ask company not to be a Scrooge
- 12/19/2017 People’s World: Fighting for breath by the dying Salton Sea
- 12/18/2017 Sojourners: Activists March for Dreamers on Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Patroness of the Americas
- 12/18/2017 KQED (CA): Firms Fined for Pesticide Incident That Sickened 92 in Bakersfield
- 12/15/2017 Bloomberg Environment: Farmworker Protection Rule Rewrite Could Stall Pivotal Funding
- 12/15/2017 The Californian: Pesticide chlorpyrifos added to state’s list of harmful chemicals
- 12/15/2017 UFW & UFW Foundation: Trump EPA will once again let children apply hazardous pesticides and deny farm workers information about poisons they work with
- 12/13/2017 Washington Post: Facing Senate rejection, controversial pick to head EPA chemical office bows out