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As wildfires continue, air quality impacts farmworkers — masks requirements vary

by Meghan McCarty Carino

Sep 15, 2020

California has regulations, but it's been hard to get PPE to workers in the fields. There's no federal standard.

Cars drive below an orange sky filled with wildfire smoke in Concord, California, on Sept. 9.

Brittany Hosea-Small/AFP via Getty Images

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