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Monica Samayoa/The rules require access to shade, water and cool-down breaks for farmworkers and other laborers. Proponents say they are the most protective in the nation. -
Oregon Department of TransportationAir quality monitoring by the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality in 2020 detected elevated levels of chemicals known to cause cancer. A new agency analysis suggests these compounds could be connected to wildfire smoke.
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President Joe Biden’s pick to lead the nation’s worker health and safety efforts largely failed in his previous job to enforce protections for California outdoor workers exposed to toxic wildfire smoke. That’s according to an investigation by KQED and The California Newsroom. -
Southern Oregon has seen record-breaking levels of wildfire smoke in recent years, leaving residents wondering what the future holds for the region.
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Smoke from wildfires, which have burned millions of acres in California alone, is choking vast swaths of the country.
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As California trudges into another autumn marred by toxic wildfire smoke and drought-parched reservoirs, state lawmakers have cast climate change as a growing public health threat for the state’s 40 million residents.But they were willing to push the argument only so far.
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With large portions of Oregon under an air quality advisory, the groups most at risk for adverse health effects include infants and young children, people with heart or lung disease, older adults and pregnant women.
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The two natural disasters — the coronavirus and record-setting Western wildfires spewing air toxins — converged to exacerbate the pandemic’s health toll last year in California, Oregon and Washington, according to a study published Friday in the journal Science Advances.
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As Oregon continues to experience high temperatures and wildfire smoke, the state has enacted two new temporary rules to protect workers laboring in excessive heat and wildfire smoke.
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Wildfires in California and outside Ashland are causing elevated levels of unhealthy air in southwest Oregon.
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Smoky summers have become a real concern in recent years, with wildfires spreading thick smoke far and wide. But winter used to be the season of concern…
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Most of this summer has been relatively mild, but memories of large fires and widespread smoke are still fresh from the last two years. Jackson County…
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The last few fire seasons were hard on everybody who got caught in the smoke. And that was nearly everybody in our region, at some point in the summer.…
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It's not smoky in the region as June comes to a close, but we should probably add the word "yet." Summer has featured a great deal of wildfire and smoke…
