Author: WHOPSO Staff    Published:  7/2/2024    OFFICE OF POLITICAL STRATEGY & OUTREACH

Today, President Biden will announce new actions to protect workers and families from the impacts of extreme weather, including:

• The Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is proposing a rule to protect workers that, if finalized, would establish the nation’s first-ever federal safety standard addressing excessive heat in the workplace.
• The Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency is announcing nearly $1 billion dollars in awards for 656 projects across the country to help communities protect against disasters and natural hazards, including extreme heat, storms, and flooding.
• The Environmental Protection Agency is releasing a new report showing the continuing and far-reaching impacts of climate change on the people and environment of the United States.

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oday, President Biden issued a Proclamation on the 60th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act.

On this anniversary, may we recommit to continuing the work that the Civil Rights Act began six decades ago — it is still the task of our time to build a democracy where every American is treated with dignity and has an equal opportunity to follow their dreams.  We must continue to move forward together, stand with one another, and choose democracy over autocracy and beloved community over chaos.  We must choose to be believers, dreamers, and doers.