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- 08/20/2020 San Francisco Chronicle: As smoke fills the air, California farmworkers still labor to put food on the table
- 08/20/2020 KPFA – 94.1FM: California wildfire stories: Farmworkers toil in smoke and heat; Cal Fire crews stretched thin battling 23 major fires; Smoke threatens recovery for Covid patients; Thousands evacuate
- 07/07/2020 The New Food Economy: Florida farm workers endure 116 dangerously hot working days every growing season. Laws to protect them have failed three years in a row.
- 05/08/2020 Food & Environment Reporting Network: Unsafe heat for farmworkers to nearly double by 2050, study predicts
- 05/06/2020 UPI.com: Dangerously hot days may double by 2050 for U.S. farm workers
- 05/01/2020 Grist: Study: Rising temperatures will double the risk to farmworkers in the coming decades
- 02/05/2020 Daily Kos: UFW, UFWF leader urges U.S. climate crisis panel to protect farm workers from heat & pesticides
- 02/05/2020 UFW, UFW Foundation leader urges U.S. climate crisis panel to protect farm workers from extreme heat and pesticides
- 11/15/2019 Orlando Political Observer: Outdoor Workers Applaud Florida Heat Stress Protection Bills
- 11/08/2019 Creative Loafing Tampa: Florida legislators are pushing a bill to protect workers exposed to extreme heat
- 11/08/2019 Stock Daily Dish: Amid Thomas fire, farmworkers weather risks in Oxnard‘s strawberry fields
- 11/08/2019 Creative Loafing Tampa: Florida legislators are pushing a bill to protect workers exposed to extreme heat
- 09/30/2019 AG Net West: New 2020 Requirements for Reporting Injuries
- 09/17/2019 KJZZ: Scientific Forum Enumerates Heat Effects On Health, Safety, Infrastructure
- 08/30/2019 KGET:State investigating heat-related death of farm worker in July
- 08/08/2019 Public News Service: Congress Considers New Federal Rules Limiting Excessive Heat in Workplace
- 08/07/2019 Tucson Sentinel: How Arizona’s outdoor workers stay safe in the swelter
- 08/02/2019 Front Porch News: YOUR TEXAS AGRICULTURE MINUTE: Beware of heat stress, exhaustion Presented by Texas Farm Bureau’s Mike Miesse
- 07/24/2019 AOL: Congressional bill introduced in honor of man who died of heat stroke picking grapes in 105-degree weather
- 07/16/2019 Sacramento Bee: As temperatures climb in California and nationwide, a new push aims to keep workers safe
- 07/16/2019 U.S. News: s Temperatures Climb, a Push to Keep Workers Safe
- 07/16/2019 Comstock’s Magazine: Lawmakers Respond to Increasing Temperatures With New Worker Safety Push
- 07/15/2019 Univision: Encuentran muerto a trabajador agrícola mientras limpiaba viñedos en un campo de Kerman
- 07/15/2019 USA Today: As temperatures climb, there’s a new federal push to keep workers safe
- 07/12/2019 ABC Weather: Federal bill would protect workers from heat-related illnesses