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November 18, 2024

It’s Time for OSHA to Finalize a Strong Heat Health Standard to Protect Workers: Here’s How You Can Help.

Shana Udvardy
Senior Climate Resilience Policy Analyst

An electrical transformer, power lines and a tree rest in the yard of a house.

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September 19, 2024

The Electricity Distribution System Can Stay Resilient in Extreme Weather

Guest Commentary

AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli

September 12, 2024

Hottest Summer on Record May Be Ending, but Fight to Protect Workers from Heat Is Far from Over

Kristy Dahl
Principal Climate Scientist

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August 13, 2024

Heat, Flooding, and Fire Overwhelming Halfway through 2024 Danger Season

Juan Declet-Barreto
Senior Social Scientist for Climate Vulnerability

Woman opening empty refrigerator after Hurricane Beryl knocks out power to region.

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August 2, 2024

Hurricane Beryl’s Towering Texas Grid Impacts and Price Tag Highlight Massive Injustices

Paul Arbaje
Energy Analyst

Exhausted male soccer player lying on field after evening soccer game.

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July 26, 2024

Plenty of Heat and No AC for Olympians—Unless Your Country Can Afford to Bring Its Own

Brady Watson
Senior Campaign Coordinator

outside digital thermometer in California reading 123 degrees.

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July 15, 2024

Ripe for Disaster Declarations: Heat, Wildfire Smoke…and Death Data

Derrick Z. Jackson
Fellow

Construction worker Felipe Campuzano pours water on his face to cool off as he digs a sanitation pipe ditch during a heatwave on August 4, 2022 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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May 23, 2024

Danger Season 2024: It’s Already Started

Erika Spanger-Siegfried
Director of Strategic Climate Analytics

Students on their way to plant trees surrounding Manual Arts High School in South Los Angeles hold up their shovels as they walk down a sidewalk.

City Plants

March 13, 2024

Growing Shade Equity, One Tree at a Time

UCS Science Network

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September 7, 2023

How Do Electric Grid Operators Warn Us About Extreme Heat?

Guest Commentary

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August 30, 2023

Boston-Area Communities Work Together to Beat the Heat

UCS Science Network

Against a backdrop of an orange sky, a group of construction workers in silhouette are standing near a fence

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August 23, 2023

Danger Season’s Extreme Heat Is Melting Records: Here Are 3 Things Congress Should Do Now

Shana Udvardy
Senior Climate Resilience Policy Analyst

UCS

August 22, 2023

Extreme Heat Makes Electricity More Expensive, More Polluting, and Less Reliable

John Rogers
Energy Campaign Analytic Lead

U.S. Air National Guard/Senior Master Sgt. Michael Davis

July 20, 2023

No Word on Climate from Presidential Candidates Stumping in New Hampshire Amid Record Global Heat

Roger Stephenson
Former Contributor

US Army National Guard/Sgt. Denis Nunez

July 19, 2023

Yes, Climate Change Worsened that Heatwave, Flood, Wildfire. Yes, Fossil Fuels are the Root Cause. Policymakers, Please Act and Stop the Madness.

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

A shirtless kid who looks to be about 10 or 12 years old stands near a small puddle of water that clearly used to be a lake or river, with dry cracked earth all around it. It looks very hot and dry where he is.

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July 17, 2023

Unrelenting Heat Requires Accountability and Action

Shaina Sadai
Hitz Fellow

Florida Fish and Wildlife

December 19, 2022

Danger Season and Hurricane Season Have Ended, Work for Impacted Communities Has Not

Juan Declet-Barreto
Senior Social Scientist for Climate Vulnerability

photo of a vineyard worker wearing a cowboy hat drinking water from the tap of a large yellow water jug

AP Photo/Lianne Milton, Napa Valley Register

November 30, 2022

This Year’s Danger Season Is Over, but Risks to Farmworkers Remain

Omanjana Goswami
Interdisciplinary Scientist

AP Photo/John Locher, File

September 21, 2022

Summer of 2022 Was a Hot One. What Was Climate Change’s Impact on Heat?

Kristy Dahl
Principal Climate Scientist

Pablo Ortiz

September 8, 2022

What 115°F in California’s Central Valley Feels Like

José Pablo Ortiz Partida
Senior Bilingual Water and Climate Scientist

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August 22, 2022

Four Months into Danger Season, Here’s the Tally of Extreme Heat, Floods, Fire Weather Events

Juan Declet-Barreto
Senior Social Scientist for Climate Vulnerability

AP Photo/David Goldman

August 10, 2022

Ask a Scientist: ‘Danger Season’ Summers Disproportionately Harm Disadvantaged Communities

Elliott Negin
Former Contributor

A pastoral scene of some hay bales and a scrubby tree against a flat field, with an ominous looking tornado-like cloud gathering overhead.

Raychel Sanner/Pexels

June 16, 2022

What Danger Season Looks Like in the Midwest

Rachel Licker
Principal Climate Scientist

A road worker walks across the road during a road recycling project on US 183 south of Rush Center, Kan. The heat behind the worker is so intense, there's a blurring effect in the background.

Charlie Riedel/AP Photo

April 18, 2022

Summer Heat Is Coming: Will New Policies Protect Workers?

Shana Udvardy
Senior Climate Resilience Policy Analyst