Here in the U.S., over 170 million people are under extreme heat alerts as sweltering temperatures spread across the country. On Thursday, President Biden announced a series of measures to tackle the impacts of the extreme heat.

President Joe Biden: “We should be protecting workers from hazardous conditions, and we will. And those states where they do not, I’m going to be calling them out, where they refuse to protect these workers in this awful heat.” 

But Biden made no mention of the fossil fuel industry’s role in the climate crisis and continued to ignore calls from climate activists and scientists to declare a climate emergency.