“Our people are dying.” That's what farmworker activist Dolores Huerta said Tuesday before an oversight hearing Calif. legislators held on pesticide regulators. If Calif. is really the green leader it claims to be, why does it allow growers to use pesticides so toxic scores of countries ban them?

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Exactly! I believe in you. You can do anything if you aren't concerned about doing it well.

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Renewable fuel refinery workers aren't covered by CA safety rules for petroleum refineries. But making biofuels is just as dangerous and nearly killed a man at the plant where workers have been striking to get more staff and safer working conditions, so another worker doesn't nearly burn to death.

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“You could have a combustion event that could be pretty catastrophic,” said Joseph E. Shepherd, a professor at the California Institute of Technology. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...

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Catastrophic chemical accidents that kill workers and endanger communities will be the norm if Trump's EPA rolls back critical safety rules. 180M Americans live near one of the country’s 12K facilities likely to produce a worst-case scenario chemical disaster. insideclimatenews.org/news/1404202...

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