Across the country, voters elected new members to Congress who have promoted climate action at the state level and could ...

Worksafe Attorney AnaStacia Wright told the news organization CalMatters in their April 2024 publication: “It’s a huge ...

But these are “vast underestimates,” according to OSHA, because heat stress is an underlying factor often unaccounted for in ...

According to testimony that Department of Corrections Secretary Ricky Dixon gave to state lawmakers last year, 75% of the ...

During the legislative session that begins in January, a new slate of lawmakers — to be elected next week — are expected to consider the clean heat standard again, and this time, decide whether to ...

A lawsuit filed this week by the prison reform advocacy group Florida Justice Institute says that extreme heat in unairconditioned cells at a prison near the Florida Everglades has contributed to the ...

The lawsuit says the lack of air conditioning in prisons amounts to "cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth ...

Without national regulations on preventing heat-related illness and death, OSHA has difficulty, in general, protecting workers before it’s too late, said Paloma Rentería, a Department of Labor ...

“We’re also continuing to lead on national advocacy,” he said. In September, WeCount! was invited to participate in the first ...

The US Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn Roe vs Wade galvanized a generation of women who’d fought for a woman’s right to choose more than a half-century beforehand. Some had seen the reversal ...

The Rich Earth Institute, a urine fertilizer advocacy group, was founded in 2011 and has spent the past decade-plus trying to convince people that the practice is viable and necessary. Synthetic ...

Records go back to 1888. #kswx This marks the second day this week that Wichita has broken a heat record. Tuesday hit 88 degrees, surpassing the previous Oct. 22 record of 87 degrees set last year ...