{"id":14412,"date":"2024-08-06T16:21:20","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T16:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=14412"},"modified":"2024-08-06T16:21:21","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T16:21:21","slug":"the-us-is-failing-renters-during-extreme-heat-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=14412","title":{"rendered":"The US is failing renters during extreme heat waves"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;In Texas \u2014 a state that often sees some of the hottest temperatures in the country \u2014 extreme heat killed&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2024\/01\/12\/texas-heat-deaths-2023-record-climate-change\/#:~:text=Green%20was%20among%20the%20334,which%20are%20not%20yet%20final.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more than 330 people in 2023<\/a>, setting a new record. More recently, millions of people in cities like&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/heat-wave-hits-texas-amid-power-outages-from-beryl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Houston have had to deal with a massive heat wave<\/a>&nbsp;while navigating power outages caused&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/07\/11\/weather\/texas-heat-beryl-power-outage-thursday\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">by Hurricane Beryl.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite the growing toll, there\u2019s shockingly little regulation around protecting people from the effects of heat. It\u2019s a stark contrast to how policies tend to treat the extreme cold. And while extreme cold continues to be&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/cat6\/Which-Kills-More-People-Extreme-Heat-or-Extreme-Cold\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">deadlier than extreme heat<\/a>, as heat waves become more dangerous, the gap between the two is likely to shrink.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/climate\/360019\/climate-extreme-heat-ac-cooling-policy\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/climate\/360019\/climate-extreme-heat-ac-cooling-policy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In Texas \u2014 a state that often sees some of the hottest temperatures in the country \u2014 extreme heat killed more than 330 people in 2023, setting a new record. More recently, millions of people in cities like Houston have had to deal with a massive heat wave while navigating power outages caused by Hurricane Beryl.<br \/>\nDespite the growing toll, there\u2019s shockingly little regulation around protecting people from the effects of heat. It\u2019s a stark contrast to how policies tend to treat the extreme cold. And while extreme cold continues to be deadlier than extreme heat, as heat waves become more dangerous, the gap between the two is likely to shrink.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.vox.com\/climate\/360019\/climate-extreme-heat-ac-cooling-policy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1669,105,53,104,1932,270,437,912,21,619],"class_list":["post-14412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-air-conditioning","tag-climate-change","tag-deaths","tag-global-warming","tag-heat","tag-housing","tag-rent","tag-temperature","tag-texas","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14413,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14412\/revisions\/14413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}