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Victory! Thank You for Your Part! (EPA has now come out with their revised Worker Protection)
FALL newsletter pdf: http://fairworldproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Fall-2015-Newsletter.pdf
Last summer (2014), Farmworker Association of Florida (FWAF) asked us and other allied organizations to submit comments to the EPA as they considered strengthening the Worker Protection Standard. We heard from hundreds of you and incorporated your comments into the letter we submitted to the EPA. We know that many more of you wrote to the EPA directly using the template we created using FWAF’s talking points. EPA has now come out with their revised Worker Protection Standard incorporating much of what we all asked for. Though it is still not perfect, it provides far stronger protection for farmworkers at risk of pesticide exposure. Congratulations to the Farmworker Association of Florida, other farmworker organizations who worked hard to see these changes, and the millions of farmworkers who will ultimately benefit from these stronger regulations.