‘Global boiling’ era arrives as U.S. reels under month of extreme heat
Much of the eastern half of the U.S. sweltered Friday in temperatures that felt as high as 44 C in population centres like New York, Kansas City and Washington, D.C, as July’s oppressive “heat dome” drifted north.
“We’re talking about a new chronic state of being for heat season. It isn’t unreasonable to think this could quite possibly be the coolest heat season of our lives.” “Folks, we really want to pretend these things are normal?” President Joe Biden said Thursday as he met with the mayors of Phoenix and San Antonio to tout his latest efforts to help people contend with the conditions.
The measures the White House announced this week included a new Department of Labor heat hazard alert system to better warn construction and agricultural workers, and tougher enforcement measures to police their employers. San Antonio is also growing as a U.S. solar energy hub — the fifth-largest producer in the country, said Mayor Ron Nirenberg — and now requires 240-volt chargers for electric vehicles in all its new single-family homes.
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