Climate Crisis: Senate Moves to Protect Workers from Heat
The Asunción Valdivia Heat Illness and Fatality Prevention Act would help keep workers safe from the many health and safety harms of extreme heat....
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Treat Farmworkers as Essential, not Sacrificial
The record-breaking California wildfires that have burned more than enough land to cover the state of Connecticut are putting the state’s farmworkers at grave...
We May Never Fully Know Hurricane Laura’s Health Harms
A better national framework for tracking disaster-related illnesses, injuries, and deaths will inform where to concentrate health interventions before, during, ...
Why Haven’t We Learned Hurricane Katrina’s Health Lessons?
We can’t keep ignoring the lessons of the past as climate change fuels increasingly severe disasters like Hurricane Laura....
Worker Health on the Front Lines of the Climate Crisis
COVID-19 is just the latest threat to essential workers, many of whom are dealing with another public health crisis: climate change....
Health on Center Stage in House Climate Crisis Action Plan
The House Climate Crisis Action Plan is a clear-eyed recognition of the need to address the present-day health harms of climate change....