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Employers in Arizona may soon face heat safety requirements
Key Points: Arizona moves to adopt heat safety requirements for employers Recommendations include access to water, shade, and rest for workers Arizona employers would also be required to develop heat […]
Arizona’s heat deaths may be down, but they’re not out
Maricopa County health officials have confirmed that just under half as many heat deaths have occurred in Arizona’s end of the summer period than last year. According to the county’s […]
Funding cuts and rising costs create dangerous summer conditions
For the past 25 years, it has been my privilege to lead a team that provides a variety of home improvement programs for Arizonans of all ages. I’ve seen firsthand […]
Criminalizing homelessness doesn’t work — housing people does
A year after the Supreme Court greenlit crackdowns on people living without shelter, homelessness has only gotten worse. In the largest eviction of a homeless encampment in recent history, around […]
Summer is coming, time to build more solar
Summer is on its way in Arizona, and I’m already dreading it. As a veteran who grew up in Arizona and has spent time in Afghanistan, the Arabian Peninsula, and […]
Hobbs orders creation of heat safety task force for workers
Key Points: The governor issued an executive order to form a task force dedicated to workplace safety in the heat Guidelines could be beneficial to workers and companies Many cities […]
Arizona’s heat crisis is an invisible epidemic we’re ignoring
Arizona’s heat is an invisible epidemic, silently claiming lives while we delay the cure. Record-breaking temperatures are no longer rare — they’re Arizona’s new normal. As the heat intensifies, so […]
The Arizona Corporation Commission’s duty is to us, not utilities
Arizonans know extreme heat can be deadly, so it was incomprehensible this week when Arizona Corporation Commissioner Nick Myers blamed an elderly woman’s heat-related death last May on her and […]
Business owners hopeful as Phoenix meets deadline to clean up ‘The Zone’
The city of Phoenix has met a court-ordered Nov. 4 deadline to remove all tents and makeshift structures from the area around the Human Services Campus known as “The Zone,” and business owners in the area are hopeful.
Phoenix Sky Harbor workers file complaint, vote to strike over dangerous working conditions and low wages
Two groups of airport workers are speaking out about what they say are dangerous working conditions and low wages at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.
Phoenix City Council votes to extend trail closures during excessive heat warnings
The Phoenix City Council voted Aug. 31 to extend excessive heat warning closures year-round – and earlier in the day – on certain hiking trails.
Smugglers steering migrants into remote desert, posing new Border Patrol challenges
Border Patrol agents ordered the young Senegalese men to wait in the scant shade of desert scrub brush while they loaded a more vulnerable group of migrants — a family with three young children from India — into a white van for the short trip in triple-degree heat to a canopied field intake center.
