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Workers exposed to extreme heat have no consistent protection in the US (apnews.com)

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State and federal agencies are scrambling to find measures to combat what experts call one of the harshest and most neglected effects of climate change in the U.S.: rising heat deaths and injuries of people who work in triple-digit temperatures.

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[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

Feature, not bug. The rich want the rest of us off their land, and what better way to do that than to let nature do the dirty work?

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