The Biden administration has increasingly placed policy and climate change at a point of convergence, emphasizing clean energy and advancement on the environmental justice front.
As warmer days become commonplace, the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is ramping up to begin the first step in a rulemaking process to protect America’s workers – both outdoor and indoor – from heat exposure.
“While climate-related disasters like hurricanes, wildfires, and floods produce dramatic images of devastation, extreme heat often takes place out of sight and out of the news,” a fact sheet from the White House stated. “But heat is the nation’s leading weather-related killer.”
