Publication: L.A. Times

UCLA Expert: Bharat Venkat: Assistant Professor, UCLA Institute for Society & Genetics; Assistant Professor, Department of History; Director, UCLA Heat Lab

Synopsis: Venkat has an Op-Ed in the Los Angeles Times Opinion section on extreme heat, redlining and what cities can do with federal funds to cool themselves down.

UCLA News: “Thermal inequality (how exposure to extreme heat and its effects are unequally distributed) disproportionately affects those who have already been harmed by other kinds of inequality,” Venkat writes.

Read more at L.A. Times.