Biden Announces Plan To Provide Relief From Extreme Heat
With heat waves spreading across the United States, President Joe Biden unveiled new steps Thursday to protect workers, improve weather forecasts and make drinking water more accessible.
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00:00 Today, I'm announcing additional steps
00:02 to help states and cities deal
00:03 with the consequences of extreme heat.
00:05 First, I've asked Acting Labor Secretary Julie Suh
00:09 to issue a heat hazard alert.
00:10 It clarifies that workers have a federal heat-related --
00:15 have federal heat-related protections.
00:16 We should be protecting workers from hazardous conditions,
00:20 and we will.
00:21 And those states where they do not,
00:23 I'm going to be calling them out,
00:24 where they refuse to protect these workers.
00:28 But our MAGIE extremists, Congress,
00:30 are trying to undo all this progress.
00:32 Not a single one of them -- not a single Republican voted --
00:36 voted for the Inflation Reduction Act,
00:39 which had all this money for climate,
00:41 which provides funding to combat climate change.
00:44 And now many of them are trying to repeal those provisions.
00:48 We're not going to let that happen.
00:50 Part of the reason we're here today is to get word out
00:53 so state and local governments know these resources
00:56 are available and uses them. We want the American people
00:59 to know help is here,
01:01 and we're going to make it available to anyone who needs it.