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Uno de los estudios académicos más grandes de los trabajadores agrícolas de California es cuantificar sus difíciles condiciones laborales y de vivienda en un momento en que la atención sobre esos problemas no podría ser más visible. El Centro Comunitario y Laboral de Merced de la Universidad de California...
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One of the largest academic studies of California farmworkers is quantifying their difficult workplace and housing conditions at a time when the spotlight on those issues couldn’t be brighter. The University of California Merced Community and Labor Center released results of its first California Farmworker Health Study in January. The 110-page...
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BAKERSFIELD, California – Los grupos de trabajadores agrícolas están celebrando el fin de una batalla de al menos una década para prohibir un pesticida tóxico en California luego de que la Agencia de Protección Ambiental del estado anunciara un nuevo acuerdo con los fabricantes de clorpirifos. El pesticida ya...
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BAKERSFIELD, Calif. – Farmworkers’ groups are celebrating the end of at least a decade-long battle to ban a toxic pesticide in California after the state Environmental Protection Agency announced a new deal with manufacturers of chlorpyrifos. The pesticide no longer will be sold to growers in California after Feb. 6....
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Even though pesticides may take an environmental toll, isn’t it worth it given how many more mouths we can feed thanks to their use? Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk The advent of new technologies coming out of World War II led agricultural researchers to start experimenting with new...
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Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. – About 150 farmworkers’ families and their advocates plan to rally tomorrow in front of the California state PEA office in Sacramento. The groups are concerned with the toxicity of pesticides applied near schools, and say they’ve been waiting for the Department...
Uno de los estudios académicos más grandes de los trabajadores agrícolas de California es cuantificar sus difíciles condiciones laborales y de vivienda en un momento en que la atención sobre esos problemas no podría ser más visible. El Centro Comunitario y Laboral de Merced de la Universidad de California...
One of the largest academic studies of California farmworkers is quantifying their difficult workplace and housing conditions at a time when the spotlight on those issues couldn’t be brighter. The University of California Merced Community and Labor Center released results of its first California Farmworker Health Study in January. The 110-page...
BAKERSFIELD, California – Los grupos de trabajadores agrícolas están celebrando el fin de una batalla de al menos una década para prohibir un pesticida tóxico en California luego de que la Agencia de Protección Ambiental del estado anunciara un nuevo acuerdo con los fabricantes de clorpirifos. El pesticida ya...
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. – Farmworkers’ groups are celebrating the end of at least a decade-long battle to ban a toxic pesticide in California after the state Environmental Protection Agency announced a new deal with manufacturers of chlorpyrifos. The pesticide no longer will be sold to growers in California after Feb. 6....
Even though pesticides may take an environmental toll, isn’t it worth it given how many more mouths we can feed thanks to their use? Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk The advent of new technologies coming out of World War II led agricultural researchers to start experimenting with new...
Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. – About 150 farmworkers’ families and their advocates plan to rally tomorrow in front of the California state PEA office in Sacramento. The groups are concerned with the toxicity of pesticides applied near schools, and say they’ve been waiting for the Department...