How Congress Can Protect Families From Dangerous Heat and Ensure Cool and Healthy Homes for All On the heels of record-breaking heat this summer and fall, Congress must act to safeguard low-income ...

Welcome to the heat dome, folks. More than 80 million people in the eastern half of the U.S. are under at least a Level 3 of 4 “major” heat risk on Friday, according to CNN. The East Coast is poised ...

The Biden administration finally proposed federal heat protection standards last week, more than half a century after federal experts first outlined the need for such rules. The Nixon administration ...

The rise in extreme heat events across the United States, spurred by climate change, kills more people than any other type of severe weather or climate disaster and leads to substantial heat-related ...

Welcome to the heat dome, folks. More than 80 million people in the eastern half of the U.S. were under at least a Level 3 of 4 “major” heat risk on Friday, according to CNN. The East Coast is poised ...

Think about the last time the temperature approached 90 degrees, with oppressive humidity. Now imagine working under those conditions all day — maybe in a warehouse, on a farm, on a roof, inside a ...

Careful timing ensures crops can handle a little heat. But recently, sudden heat waves and long-lasting ones in already warm regions have become more common, with predictions saying there’s more to ...

Governments around the world are enacting measures to try to protect workers from the dangers of heat stress. They’re barely keeping up with the risks. By Somini Sengupta and Hisako Ueno Somini ...