In California, Flawed Air Rules Threaten Farmworkers as Wildfires Pump More Smoke Onto Fields

OXNARD, Calif.—The January wildfires were still raging to the east in Pacific Palisades, torching thousands of homes and painting the Southern California sky a smudgy orange, but Adriana, a farmworker whose name has been changed to protect her identity, recalled trying to get to a strawberry field amid the chaotic response to the fires.  It … Continue reading In California, Flawed Air Rules Threaten Farmworkers as Wildfires Pump More Smoke Onto Fields