Publication: N.Y. Times

UCLA Expert: David Eisenman: Professor-in-Residence, Department of Community Health Sciences; Professor, David Geffen School of Medicine; Deputy Director for Community Partnerships, Center for Healthy Climate Solutions

Synopsis: As several cities in Northern California set heat records, some experts are trying to draw more attention to the effects of hot weather. The heat dome punishing the West continued its suffocating stay over California, sending temperatures to all-time highs, making it harder to fight the wildfires that were burning in various parts of the state.

UCLA News: Eisenman was quoted, saying that “the state was one of relatively few to implement worker-safety regulations regarding heat.”

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