A new bill co-sponsored by U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema aims to fight extreme heat issues impacting infrastructure and personnel along the border.
Sinema introduced the Border Weather Resiliency Act alongside Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas. If passed, it would require Customs and Border Protection to assess the risks and submit a plan to safeguard border personnel and infrastructure from extreme weather.
That includes record heat waves seen along the U.S.-Mexico border in recent weeks and freezing temperatures along the U.S.-Canadian border in past years.
The senators say the move comes after the hottest year on record and record-setting summer temperatures in Arizona last year — the U.S. also experienced a record-number of weather emergencies in 2023. A 2021 government watchdog report found that natural disasters have resulted in billions of dollars in federal spending in the five years before the report.
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February is off to an unseasonably warm start in Phoenix. As of Tuesday, the city has now had three days in a row of record-breaking heat.
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In the course of Kyle Paoletta defending why people live in the southwest, he found himself making the case that, pretty soon, a lot of Americans are going to find themselves living in harsh conditions.
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Via KJZZ's Q&AZ reporting project, one listener asked: What happens if climate change makes Phoenix uninhabitable? As it turns out, it's not exactly unprecedented.
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We were breaking heat records all summer long. But now that it’s winter, it can be easy to forget that it’s actually way hotter than it usually is this time of year.