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The National League of Cities and U.S. Conference of Mayors are urging Congress to pass proposed bipartisan legislation that would explicitly include extreme heat in the federal government’s definition of a major disaster, according to separate letters sent by the organizations’ leaders to members of Congress who introduced the legislation in June. The Extreme Heat Emergency Act of 2023 would help unlock federal resources for local extreme heat response by amending the Stafford Act, which guides how the federal government doles out resources post-natural disaster. The legislation “will empower local governments to establish cooling centers, support vulnerable populations, assist the homeless, and enhance healthcare services during extreme heat events,” NLC CEO and Executive Director Clarence Anthony wrote in his letter - [to Congress members].
In a new study published in One Earth,
researchers showed that heat stress disproportionately affects poor and
non-white residents in 481 American cities. “We found that the actual
disparity was pretty consistent across cities: In over 90 percent of the
cities we considered, we found both income and race-based inequalities
in heat exposure,” said TC Chakraborty, an Earth scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
and lead author of the study.
In order to fulfill the ambition of the United States federal government’s REPLANT Act, the U.S. Forest Service has funds available to plant more than a billion trees in the next nine years. The problem is, there aren’t enough trees. Not only that, but U.S. tree nurseries don’t have enough variety of species necessary to meet the goal.
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