Sacramento Bee: Several years after state politicians focused on reducing farmworker deaths, Central Valley laborers remain vulnerable to heat-related illness, according to a study by the UC Davis Western Center for Agricultural Health and Safety.
In the most recent instance, state officials are investigating whether a farmworker's death Tuesday in a watermelon field near Coalinga was related to last week's heat wave.
At the urging of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and lawmakers, state officials enacted permanent...