farmworkers

California Pesticide Regulators Say New Rules Protect Communities as Applications of a Dangerous Fumigant Rise

Regulators insist they’re committed to protecting health and the environment, yet continue to allow growers to use a deadly chemical banned in 40 countries.

By Liza Gross

California Bill Aims to Keep Toxic PFAS off Its Crops

By Liza Gross

A New Wine Label Promotes Workers’ Rights

By Liza Gross

New Analysis Provides More Evidence That Heat Standards Save Lives

By Liza Gross

Farmworkers in the Hottest Part of California Find State Funds to Cool Their Homes and Save on Energy

By Twilight Greenaway

California Updates Pesticide Alert System

By Liza Gross

Violating California Residents’ Right to Water

By Liza Gross

US Labor Advocates Demand Heat Protections for Workers as Planet Warms

By Liza Gross

New Mexico Is the Latest State Developing Standards to Protect Workers in Extreme Heat

By Martha Pskowski

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

By Rambo Talabong

Trump Guts Agency Critical to Worker Safety as Temperatures Rise

By Liza Gross

California Farmworker Communities Win the Right to Be Notified of Pesticide Applications in Advance

By Liza Gross

Agricultural Poisons Tell a Tale of Two Californias

By Liza Gross, Peter Aldhous

New Jersey Is the Latest State to Consider Heat Protections for Workers

By Emilie Lounsberry

EPA Thought Industry-Funded Scientists Could Support Its Conclusion That a Long-Regulated Pesticide Is Not a Cancer Risk

By Liza Gross

Will the Nation’s First Heat Protection Standard Safeguard the Most Vulnerable Workers?

By Liza Gross

First Heat Protection Standards for Workers Proposed by Biden Administration

By Marianne Lavelle

California’s Latino Communities Most at Risk From Exposure to Brain-Damaging Weed Killer

By Liza Gross

Florida Legislators Ban Local Heat Protections for Millions of Outdoor Workers

By Amy Green, Victoria St. Martin