DANGERS OF EXTREME HEAT FOR LOW-INCOME COMMUNITIES

With the official start of summer drawing closer, so does concern around climate change and its disproportionate impact on low-income communities and communities of color. According to nonprofit Trust for America's Health, more people died of extreme heat in 2022 than any other weather event combined.

Heat is also one of the major causes of death in the workplace, both for outdoor and agricultural workers as well as people who work in manufacturing. Alonzo Plough, chief science officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, said local and state governments need to provide better remedies and conditions to mitigate dangerous summer temperatures.

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