Dying in the Fields as Temperatures Soar

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By By Liza Gross, Peter AldhousDec 31, 2023, 5:00 am281 pts
Scores of California farmworkers are dying in the heat in regions with chronically bad air, even in a state with one of the toughest heat standards in the nation. By Liza Gross, Peter Aldhous For most of July 2019, stifling heat hung over the agricultural fields of California’s Central Valley, as farmworkers…

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