Excessive heat can cause heat stroke and even death if not treated properly. It also exacerbates existing health problems like asthma, kidney failure, and heart disease.

Heat stress and chronic dehydration causes permanent kidney damage. In regions with heat protections (California), kidney disease drops dramatically.

Essential jobs that experience the highest rates of heat illness are disproportionately held by Black and Brown workers.

While working to feed us, farm workers have died because they were exposed to extremely high temperatures and were denied water, shade and rest.

Due to climate change, temperatures can reach record numbers in October and November, not just in the summer months.

This threat is projected to intensify with global heating, yet, the U.S. does not have a federal heat stress standard for workers.