"Rise In Extreme Heat Will Hit Minority Communities Hardest"

"Thirty years after Hurricane Andrew demolished Homestead, Fla., another disaster looms.

The city of 80,000 will experience the nation’s sharpest increases in extreme heat, according to a groundbreaking new nationwide analysis that projects how climate change will affect neighborhood temperatures in 2053.

Homestead has another notable quality: 65 percent of its residents are Hispanic, and 22 percent are Black."

Thomas Frank reports for E&E News August 15, 2022.

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Source: E&E News, 08/16/2022