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60 million americans under heat alerts

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"The spiraling costs of extreme weather in the US are hitting hard as more than 60 million Americans are under heat alerts this week, experts say, even though federal law does not explicitly consider heatwaves to be climate disasters. The country is stretched paying those costs, due to dwindling funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) and laws that don’t consider heat to be a climate disaster. Hurricane Idalia battered Florida’s coast last week, leaving billions of dollars of damage in its wake. Wildfires that raged through the Hawaiian island of Maui this summer are now considered the deadliest in modern US history, killing more than 100 people as well as causing billions of dollars in damage. Deadly floods in Vermont this summer destroyed infrastructure, costing up to $5.3bn. Extreme heat across the country this summer has taken lives, driven up healthcare costs and threatened valuable natural resources like fisheries." 06/09/23 Check the full article copying the link: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/06/a-relatively-new-challenge-why-us-heatwaves-dont-receive-disaster-funds

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