Public Citizen : *tell Congress: protect workers from extreme heat*

tell Congress: protect workers from extreme heat

• According to NASA — not exactly known as a bunch of tree huggers — July was the hottest month ever recorded. And the past five Julys — that’s July 2023, July 2022, July 2021, July 2020, and July 2019 — are the five hottest Julys since at least 1880.
  

• Also in July, waters off the coast of Florida were measured at over 100 degrees. That’s typical of hot tubs — which come with warnings not to stay in them too long. At the risk of stating the obvious, the ocean is not supposed to feel like a hot tub.
  

• This summer, the high in Phoenix, Arizona, reached 110 degrees or more for 31 days in a row.
  

• Hospital burn units filled up with people who sustained third-degree burns — where, as one doctor put it, “the skin is completely destroyed” — from falling down outside and being in contact with super-heated concrete sidewalks and asphalt streets for just a matter of minutes.
  

• The head of the United Nations recently said the Earth is entering “an era of global boiling.”