Friends:

Please join Public Citizen, the United Farm Workers, and Farmworker Justice in petitioning OSHA to shield some of the most vulnerable U.S. populations from the harms of global warming by adopting heat stress protections for workers. This petition will be filed in July, initiating the launch of a multi-year campaign to win a heat stress rule from OSHA (the Occupational Safety and Health Administration), as well as educate the public on the dangers of heat stress and the need to mitigate climate change. See below for more background information.

The draft petition is attached. We are still doing some minor fact-checking and citation-fixing, but we don’t anticipate significant changes to the substance. We are also happy to take feedback!

Deadline for sign-ons: Tuesday, July 10. Please use this form: https://goo.gl/forms/7NZSg3GUi2IbwAhw2.

If you have feedback, please get it to us as soon as possible – and no later than June 29.

Thank you!

Background

In partnership with the United Farm Workers and Farmworker Justice, Public Citizen is launching a campaign to protect workers from heat stress, an increasingly severe hazard in a time of rapid global warming. We will raise awareness of the threat that extreme heat poses to the health and safety of workers and other vulnerable populations – and promote rules to prevent injuries and deaths from heat at the national level and in key states or localities. The campaign will feature the lives and narratives of workers and other vulnerable populations on the front lines of global warming, demonstrating both the need for policies to adapt to climate change and the imperative to stop it before catastrophic outcomes become unavoidable. We are building a large, cross-sector coalition comprising labor, public health, environmental justice, environmental, and faith groups to advance this work.

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David J. Arkush | Managing Director

Public Citizen’s Climate Program

215 Pennsylvania Ave SE, Washington, DC 20003

TEL: 202.454.5132, CELL: 202.550.0107

@David_Arkush

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