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Weeks After a Heat Wave Baked the US, Democrats Push to Declare Heat a Major Disaster (insideclimatenews.org)

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Politicians from some of the country’s hottest states are calling on FEMA to update disaster declaration guidelines.

By Kiley Price

In the United States, heat kills more people than hurricanes, floods and tornadoes—combined. Yet unlike these other extreme weather events, heat waves are not considered a major disaster under U.S. law.

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