SEATTLE — The White Home on Tuesday introduced the launch of Warmth.gov, a federal web site to unfold consciousness and assets so the general public and policymakers can higher reply to excessive warmth.
The web site may have warmth forecasts from quite a few federal companies, guides to plan and put together for prime temperatures, and alternatives to assist public well being applications and communities at increased threat of warmth publicity.
“President Biden has directed us to answer the acute warmth gripping the nation. Excessive warmth is a silent killer, but it impacts extra Individuals than another climate emergency — significantly our nation’s most weak,” Gina McCarthy, White Home nationwide local weather adviser, mentioned in a information launch Tuesday.
“Warmth.gov is an thrilling new and accessible web site designed to assist everybody change into engaged with their neighborhood, their state-level authorities, and federal companions, to take actions that may cut back the lethal well being impacts of utmost warmth.”
Warmth.gov was created by means of a collaboration amongst federal companies together with the Nationwide Built-in Warmth Well being Data System, the Nationwide Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention, the Environmental Safety Company and others.
Nicholas Turner, The Seattle Occasions
Extra articles from the BDN
