Protecting people’s health from environmental hazards, Maricela Mares-Alatorre and her family found out the hard way, is a never-ending fight. She was in high school in the late 1980s when her parents, both farmworkers, organized to help prevent the construction of a toxic waste incinerator in the landfill near Kettleman City, a tiny agricultural community […]
Category: Environment
Our investigations reveal how environmental policy in the U.S. has led to the current state of the climate — and where it’ll go from here.
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Birth of an OSHA policy
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Toxic Labor
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Toxic labor, by the numbers
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