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Heat News
- 01/19/2021 Orlando Sentinel: In Florida, worsening heat puts more people at risk
- 12/15/2020 CAP Radio: Farmworkers Need Stockpile of N-95s For Wildfire Season, California Lawmakers Say
- 12/09/2020 Cal Matters: New bill pushes California to stock, distribute masks to farmworkers during wildfires
- 12/01/2020 Mail Tribune: Local farm workers get housing help after Almeda fire
- 11/18/2020 Agri-Pulse: More work needed to protect farmworkers from heat stress
- 10/25/2020 StarNews Online: ‘Your body can’t handle the work’: They make a living outside in dangerous North Carolina heat
- 10/23/2020 Capital Press: Washington to write rule on working in smoky air
- 10/20/2020 The Charlotte Observer: With no AC where they sleep, NC farmworkers risk the heat even after the sun goes down
- 10/20/2020 The Charlotte Observer: They make a living outside in dangerous NC heat. ‘Your body can’t handle the work.’
- 10/18/2020 Raleigh News & Observer: NC farmworkers risk the heat even after the sun goes down with no AC where they sleep
- 10/06/2020 Crosscut: During wildfires, West Coast farmworkers forced to put harvest over health
- 10/06/2020 Here And Now: Migrant Farmworkers Face Twin Risks: Wildfires And COVID-19
- 10/03/2020 Sierra Sun Times: U.S. Senators Kamala D. Harris and Sherrod Brown Introduce Heat Stress Legislation to Protect Workers
- 10/01/2020 Harris bill to protect all U.S. farm & other workers from heat
- 10/01/2020 News Advisory from Senator Harris: Harris, Brown Introduce Heat Stress Legislation to Protect Workers
- 10/01/2020 Ask your Senators to support new national heat regulation bill
- 09/29/2020 KIMA CBS 29: Union demands state do more to protect workers specifically from wildfire smoke
- 09/29/2020 Prescott News: Heat, smoke, pandemic: Dangers multiply for farmworkers in 2020
- 09/28/2020 RFD TV: California needs masks to protect farm workers and to stay safe during wildfires
- 09/28/2020 Cronkite News: Heat, smoke, pandemic: Dangers multiply for farmworkers in 2020
- 09/25/2020 The Salinas Californian: Are Salinas farmworkers protected from wildfires?
- 09/24/2020 The Week: Amid wildfires, U.S. farmworkers labor with few protections
- 09/22/2020 Food and Environment Reporting Network: As California wildfires rage, the harvest goes on
- 09/21/2020 InvestigateWest: Government, employers do little to protect outdoor workers from smoke
- 09/21/2020 Food Tank: Farm Workers Are Facing Two Crises as Wildfires Burn in the West