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Dozens of Groups Push FEMA to Recognize Extreme Heat as a ‘Major Disaster’

Dozens of environmental, labor and health care groups banded together on Monday to file a petition to push the Federal Emergency Management Agency to declare extreme heat and wildfire smoke as “major disasters,” like floods and tornadoes.The petition is a major push to get the federal government to help states and local communities that are straining under the growing costs of climate change.

Dozens of Groups Push FEMA to Recognize Extreme Heat as a ‘Major Disaster’https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/17/climate/labor-unions-fema-disaster-relief.htmlOpen linkView original on lemmy.world
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Why would we need anything like that? Now excuse me if I check the temperature outside right now here in Indiana. It's after 6, so things should be cooling down right about n-

We're fucked.

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Good luck getting DeSatan to accept that. He'll take the money, and move it off to some "other" uses, but accept climate change?

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