The Biden administration announced Monday morning an interagency plan to deal with the effects of frequent extreme heat waves caused by global warming.
Extreme heat is now the leading weather-related killer in the United States, and it is becoming more common and severe. This summer, at 2.6 degrees Fahrenheit above the historical average, was thePresident Biden on Friday during a conference call on climate change with the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate.
The administration’s plan has four main components, according to a fact sheet distributed by the White House:The Department of Labor will develop regulations and processes to set and enforce regulations limiting extreme heat exposure for outdoor workers, in industries like agriculture, construction and delivery, and indoor workers, including factory, warehouse and kitchen staff.
All of these moves, with the exception of planting new trees, address only some of the symptoms of climate change rather than the main cause, which is the increased atmospheric concentrations of heat-trapping gases.
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