Biden admin to roll out first federal safety standard for workers in excessive heat
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The Biden administration on Tuesday will announce the nation’s first-ever federal safety standard for excessive heat in the workplace at a time when millions of Americans are under extreme heat warnings and advisories.
The Biden administration on Tuesday will announce the nation’s first-ever federal safety standard for excessive heat in the workplace at a time when millions of Americans are under extreme heat warnings and advisories. The rule from the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration proposes employees have new requirements to identify heat hazards for workers, how workers develop heat illness and how employers would respond to keep their employees safe. Also on Tuesday, President Joe Biden will be briefed on an extreme weather forecast, wildfire season and this year’s hurricane outlook, senior administration officials said, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency is announcing it will award nearly $1 billion for over 650 climate resilience projects, funded as part of the 2021 infrastructure law. Climate change-fueled heat and weather has made its mark around the country this spring and summer. In the past few weeks alone, multiple regions in the US have suffered under scorching temperatures, some of which have broken records. “Tens of millions of Americans are experiencing the effects of extreme weather events,” a Biden senior administration official told reporters on a press call. “The Fourth of July holiday week is expected to feature dangerously hot conditions from multiple regions across the country.” The hot and dry conditions have fueled deadly wildfires in New Mexico and other parts of the western US, and exceedingly warm ocean temperatures have helped fuel Hurricane Beryl’s quick strengthening from a tropical storm into a Category 5 hurricane – becoming the earliest Category 5 on record in the Atlantic Ocean and the only Category 5 in the month of June.
(CNN) — One person was killed and another was left critically injured after two helicopters crashed in southern New Jersey on Sunday, officials said.
Pipe bomb suspect told FBI he targeted US political parties because they were ‘in charge,’ memo says
The man accused of placing two pipe bombs in Washington, DC, on the eve of the January 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol told investigators after his arrest that he believed someone needed to “speak up” for people who believed the 2020 election was stolen and that he wanted to target the country’s political parties because they were “in charge,” prosecutors said Sunday.
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The night was warm and muggy over New Castle Air Force Base in Delaware, the kind of heat that clung to the metal skins of the alert fighter jets lined along the runway.
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