Environmental Health

"As climate change supercharges extreme weather around the world, many concert venues, organizers and fans are ill-prepared for rising risks."

"A proposal to exclude prisons from California's long-awaited rules to protect indoor workers from extreme heat threatens to delay implementation until well into the summer or kill off the safeguards altogether, labour rights advocates say."

"President Joe Biden’s regulators recently finalized a flood of major energy and environmental rules in hopes that they’ll stick even if Donald Trump returns to the White House."

"As climate change makes summers hotter, restaurant employees are walking out and unionizing."

"It’s a 90-degree spring day in Moab, Utah, and dozens of people have the same idea: Escape the heat and blistering sunshine by hiking the Mill Creek waterfall trail. The short hike is decently shaded, with opportunities to dip hot feet in the creek—and swim in a small waterfall at the trail’s end. But even this oasis can be dangerous when it comes to extreme heat."

"Saudi officials warn of sweltering heat for this year's Islamic pilgrimage. Observers highlight that mitigating measures are not enough as regional long-term policy changes are needed."

"The ethanol industry has billed itself as a green alternative to oil and gas, but new research finds biofuel refineries are releasing toxic chemicals in farm communities across the nation."

"Dozens of Donald Trump’s supporters have been requiring medical help at his rallies in the scorching US south-west but it seems lost on him that his plans to reverse climate policies and “drill, baby, drill” for fossil fuels will only worsen extreme weather, campaigners say."

"Despite the growing danger from climate-driven disasters, there is no single, reliable count of who is dying as a result of extreme weather in the United States. For any given weather disaster, multiple government agencies publish independent — and often widely differing — death counts."

"More than seven years after Congress mandated that EPA swiftly alert the public to surges in lead contamination in drinking water, EPA’s inspector general has found the agency still isn’t ready to roll out an action plan."