Extreme Weather

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September 7, 2023

How Do Electric Grid Operators Warn Us About Extreme Heat?

Guest Commentary

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August 23, 2023

Danger Season’s Extreme Heat Is Melting Records: Here Are 3 Things Congress Should Do Now

Shana Udvardy
Senior Climate Resilience Policy Analyst

UCS

August 22, 2023

Extreme Heat Makes Electricity More Expensive, More Polluting, and Less Reliable

John Rogers
Associate Director, Energy Analytics

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Harald Richter/National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL)

April 12, 2023

Tornadoes and More: What Spring Can Bring to the Power Grid

Paul Arbaje
Senior Analyst

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April 11, 2023

Energy Storage Can Help People with Disabilities Through Extreme Weather Events

Maria Fernanda Chavez
Senior Analyst

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October 6, 2022

California’s Proposition 30 Would Put the Transition to Clean Transportation in the Fast Lane

David Reichmuth
Research Director, Clean Transportation Program

NASA

August 24, 2022

Rare and Severe Weather Events Are Now More Common Thanks to Climate Change

Brenda Ekwurzel
Former Staff

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August 22, 2022

Four Months into Danger Season, Here’s the Tally of Extreme Heat, Floods, Fire Weather Events

Juan Declet-Barreto
Senior Social Scientist for Climate Vulnerability

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June 24, 2022

What Firefighters Can Teach Us about Preparing the Grid for Extreme Weather

Mike Jacobs
Senior Energy Analyst

A scene of destruction in Bowling Green, KY, with a pile of rubble including a couch in the foreground, and a destroyed home in the background

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers/Flickr

June 16, 2022

Lingering Climate Injustice in Bowling Green, KY

Alicia Race
Climate Resilience Policy Advocate

A vineyard worker gets a drink from a cooler during a break from the heat as the temperature exceeded 100 degrees in California.

AP Photo/Napa Valley Register, Lianne Milton

March 21, 2022

Central Valley Farmworkers: Surviving Extreme Heat While Feeding the US

Kristy Dahl
Former Staff

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January 19, 2022

Coldhearted Policies Put People at Risk of Extreme Heat Work Hazards

Alicia Race
Climate Resilience Policy Advocate

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December 15, 2021

Here’s How You Can Support Recovery Efforts for Historic Kentucky Tornado

Alicia Race
Climate Resilience Policy Advocate

USDA/Bob Nichols

September 23, 2021

As Extreme Heat Challenges Our Outdoor Workers, White House Announcement Will Save Lives

Juan Declet-Barreto
Senior Social Scientist for Climate Vulnerability

USAF/Senior Airman Damon Kasberg

September 22, 2021

Extreme Heat Is a Killer. A New Federal Initiative Prioritizes Worker Health and Safety.

Kathleen Rest
Former Executive Director

Ken Oltmann, CoServ/U.S. Dept. of Energy

August 27, 2021

Extreme Heat Hits Clean Energy Workers Hard–How Can the Industry Keep Them Safe?

Adenike Adeyeye
Former Contributor

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August 24, 2021

Extreme Heat is a Threat to Midwestern Outdoor Workers

James Gignac
Midwest Policy Director

Lance Cheung/USDA

August 20, 2021

New UCS Climate Analysis Too Hot to Work Shows Mounting Risks to Outdoor Workers from Heat Extremes

Rachel Licker
Former Staff

AP Photo/Jason Dearen

July 28, 2020

Extreme Floods and Superfund Sites: A Pending Disaster for Underserved Communities

Jacob Carter
Former Contributor

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July 14, 2020

How Will People Cope With Extreme Heat and Rising COVID-19 Risks This Week?

Kristy Dahl
Former Staff

USDA Photo by Lance Cheung/Flickr

December 18, 2019

Farm State Voters See Soil as a Solution to Agriculture’s Woes

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

Photo: Simon Pierre Barrette, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

November 25, 2019

Extreme Fires, Creative Solutions

UCS Science Network

191004-M-QR315-1158 MALAYSIA (Oct. 04, 2019) U.S. Marine Corps Lance Corporal RaGarreh Rivera, a mortarman attached to Lima company, 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), observers an illumination round fired from an 81mm mortar system during a call for fire exercise. Malaysian Armed Forces were joined by U.S. Marines and Sailors for exercise Tiger Strike 2019 where both forces participated in jungle survival, amphibious assault, aerial raids, and combat service support training and cultural exchanges (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Matthew Teutsch)

November 10, 2019

Former Military Offer Insights on Extreme Heat and the Military Analysis

Adrienne Hollis
Former Contributor

Marine Corps Air Station Yuma

November 10, 2019

US Military on the Front Lines of Extreme Heat

Kristy Dahl
Former Staff