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“We Knew Who Was Going to Die”: Warnings About Lower-Income Heat Risk Went Unheeded

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Vivek Shandas, director of the Sustaining Urban Places Research Lab at Portland State University, testified before Congress. “We knew who was going to die. I wrote a report stating as much in 2009, and yet local agencies had little capacity for taking swift action,” he said. At the hearing, researchers urged action to protect the most vulnerable from the deepening heat.

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“We Knew Who Was Going to Die”: Warnings About Lower-Income Heat Risk Went Unheeded

In the wake of an extreme heat event in the Pacific Northwest that killed at least 200 people, a scientist testified before Congress that the deaths could have been prevented.“Those who died lacked access to financial capital, social networks, and had aging or injured bodies,” Vivek Shandas, director of the Sustaining Urban Places Research Lab at Portland State University, told the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. To Shandas, the …

3 years ago·New York, United States

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