Extreme Heat Public Health Policy (NOAA / OSTP)
Current understanding
To be populated as evidence accumulates.
Evidence log
- 2025-07-18 — Extreme Heat Emergency Act of 2025: cross-connection with extreme-heat-emergency-act: HR4497 would extend emergency management framing to the same extreme-heat hazard addressed by NOAA/OSTP public health policy work. (novelty: 2)
- 2025-01-30 — Smoke and Heat Ready Communities Act of 2025: cross-connection with wildfire-smoke-extreme-heat-preparedness: The Act’s community-planning grants and Centers of Excellence complement NOAA/OSTP extreme heat public-health work by adding EPA-led local preparedness and communication capacity. (novelty: 3)
- 2026-07-06 — Extreme Temperatures Injustice in Prisons Act of 2026: cross-connection with extreme-temperatures-prisons: Both address extreme heat as a public health concern; the prisons bill extends heat-mitigation policy into carceral facility conditions. (novelty: 3)
- 2024-12-17 — Preventing HEAT Illness and Deaths Act of 2024: 2024 — Preventing HEAT Illness and Deaths Act of 2024 (S2645, 118th Congress, placed on Senate Legislative Calendar) would establish an OSTP interagency committee on extreme heat, a NOAA heat health information system, a National Academies study on data/research gaps, and NOAA community grants to nonprofits, academic institutions, and state/local/tribal governments for heat mitigation. (novelty: 3)