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- Farmworker Protection, Press Reports, Protecting Farmworker Jobs, What's Cooking
- August 5, 2019
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EPA Leaders Continue to Misrepresent the Nitrate Study Peer Review0
- EPA Nitrate Study, Latest News
- August 9, 2019
Should federal agency leaders be held accountable for blatant misrepresentation of the facts? (Some call this lying.) Below you will see three documents related to the 2012-2013 Yakima Nitrate Report. These are about the peer review and they conclusively settle the current argument with the Region 10 Administrator Chris Hladick. Save Family Farming, Rep. Dan
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Help Us Send a Message to EPA: We Want the Truth!0
- A Future for Farming, EPA Nitrate Study, Latest News
- July 29, 2019
President Trump’s EPA leadership promised that this administration would bring a new era of transparency in environmental science. But Trump appointees are ignoring that commitment – including EPA Director Andrew Wheeler.
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Dairy farm employees get the straight facts about United Farm Workers—and the union leaders don’t like it0
- Farmworker Protection, Farmworkers' Voice, Latest News
- July 18, 2019
Educational meetings with Eastern Washington farm employees were attacked by UFW with more false accusations Farmers and farm employees met in Granger and Yakima in early July to hear from an attorney, a farm worker and a former UFW union employee. They presented information to the farmers and farm employees about the United Farm Workers
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Washington dairy farm employees learn first hand about United Farm Workers0
- Farmworker Protection, Farmworkers' Voice, Latest News
- July 17, 2019
In mid-July, nearly 50 Washington farm employees gathered to hear from two special guests from California. Sylvia Lopez is a farm worker from the Gerawan Farm in California, one of the largest fruit growers in the country. Francisco Cerritos was a longtime employee of the United Farm Workers union, where his job was to be
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Capital Press reports EPA staying silent on science review request0
- EPA Nitrate Study, Latest News, Press Reports
- July 17, 2019
The West Coast ag newspaper reports that EPA Region 10 leaders are using Save Family Farming’s request for criminal investigation as the basis for refusing to supply proof of their claims about the science review of the discredited EPA nitrate report. That is clearly a dodge as they also refused to provide us proof of
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EPA Nitrate Study Appeal: Correspondence0
- EPA Nitrate Study, Latest News
- July 8, 2019
Since mid-2018 dairy farmers and farm leaders from Washington, Oregon and Idaho have been meeting and corresponding with EPA officials about the Yakima Nitrate Report. Here is a collection of the written correspondence. April 30, 2019 Letter to Rep. Newhouse and Rep. McMorris Rodgers asking for assistance with the EPA nitrate report: Following a May
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Dairy farmers ask: Where is the Trump administration’s commitment to transparency in science?0
- Clean Groundwater, EPA Nitrate Study, Latest News, Press Releases
- July 3, 2019
Dairy farmers are appealing to EPA Director Andrew Wheeler to take long-delayed action on conducting a real peer review of the 2012-2013 EPA Yakima Nitrate Report. This follows a similar request submitted by Congressman Dan Newhouse of Yakima on June 26. After months of effort with new Region 10 Administrator Christopher Hladick, farmers have turned
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“It’s a safety issue” say two school superintendents asking the state to manage the imported elk herd in Skagit Valley0
- A Future for Farming, Latest News
- July 3, 2019
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