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Dying in the fields as temperatures soar

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.
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Floods may taint more water in California farm towns

Nitrate contamination of well water has been a decades-long problem in the San Joaquin and Salinas valleys — and now stormwater has flushed more fertilizer and manure into aquifers.

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What a deluged California means for farmworkers

As the latest storm associated with a strong atmospheric river sweeps through California, already strained farmworkers across the state are bracing for yet another setback.

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Strange Bedfellows: Farmers and Big Greens square off against Biden and the GOP

In this overwhelmingly Republican part of central Iowa, farmers who sell their crop to ethanol makers have been thrust into Biden’s search for a climate policy that both slashes greenhouse gas emissions and satisfies crosscutting political interests.

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