President Joe Biden unveiled a wholeofgovernment approach to protecting communities and workers from what he called the real crisis of extreme heat . Around million people from coast to coast are under heat alerts Thursday after extreme heat expanded into the highly populated I corridor bringing the highest temperatures of the year there . The heat also wont let up in the South and Southwest where heatrelated deaths are climbing emergency rooms are filling with heatrelated burn victims and even animals are falling victim to heat illness . Biden announced that hes asked acting Labor Secretary Julie Su to issue a heat hazard alert clarifying protections for workers . The Department of Housing and Urban Development is providing billions to make buildings more efficient and more heatresistant as well as for the opening of cooling centers . And the Department of Interior he said is using infrastructure funding to expand water storage capacity to deal with future droughts . And NOAA the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is partnering with universities and impacted communities to improve the nations weather forecasts and its accuracy. And he called on Americans to visit heat.gov a national integrated heat health information system to help with the nation’s weather forecasts . The president also spoke more broadly about the impact of climate change and climate change . He also went after MAGA extremists in Congress who he said are trying to repeal legislative progress. He also called on Congress to repeal legislation that he said were trying to ignore climate change. He said they are trying . to repeal . and he said they were trying. to ignore their efforts. and said he said he was trying to make it a serious problem. He called on them to ignore the fact that they are not to ignore it. And said that they were going to make a serious mistake. And called on people who believe climate change’s climate change
Biden unveils new measures aimed at addressing extreme heat as US swelters . Biden
