Impacts thefern.org As California wildfires rage, the harvest goes on As California suffers through its worst wildfire season in modern history, agricultural workers are still going to work, risking heat, smoke, and COVID-19 to pick grapes and harvest strawberries.
Politics www.nytimes.com For prisoners in the West, the virus and the wildfires are colliding Prisoners are more vulnerable than ever to the twin crises of the pandemic and a historic wildfire season.
Impacts www.alleghenyfront.org Climate change, COVID make farmworkers' jobs more dangerous Most people have never met a farmworker, and haven’t seen the extraordinary conditions they work in, including smoke from wildfires and heatwaves.
Politics 10 years after the Upper Big Branch disaster, not much has changed in coal mining safety The accident killed 29 miners.
A controversial facility that would process plastic waste to be burned in steel mills has been cancelled
Pennsylvania health advocates say Trump’s first 100 days in office have caused “100 harms” to local communities
