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After at least 54 died during a 2021 heat wave, mostly elderly people without air conditioning, in the Portland area, Oregon passed a law prohibiting landlords from placing blanket bans on air ...
Arizona is among 19 states with shut-off protections, leaving about half of the U.S. population without safeguards against losing electricity during the summer, the National Energy Assistance ...
Buying and installing central air conditioner to cool the house during the day is simply beyond their budget. They’re making do with window cooling units, one in their bedroom and the other in ...
The July 1995 Chicago heat wave led to 739 heat-related deaths in Chicago over a period of five days. [1] Most of the victims of the heat wave were elderly poor residents of the city, who did not have air conditioning, or had air conditioning but could not afford to turn it on, and did not open windows or sleep outside for fear of crime. [2]
In 2020, the Kansas City Council passed the Tenants Bill of Rights, which states that rental units must have heat, but it doesn’t guarantee the right to air conditioning. In Kansas, it’s the same.
A heat dome is a weather phenomenon consisting of extreme heat that is caused when the atmosphere traps hot air as if bounded by a lid or cap. Heat domes happen when strong high pressure atmospheric conditions remain stationary for an unusual amount of time, preventing convection and precipitation and keeping hot air "trapped" within a region.
Inmates become “miserable” in prisons without air conditioning and violence tends to increase, he said. “Staff suffer too, and take a lot of days off so the (staff) shortage gets worse.
For example, heat from solar collectors or waste heat from air conditioning equipment can be gathered in hot months for space heating use when needed, including during winter months. Waste heat from industrial process can similarly be stored and be used much later [2] or the natural cold of winter air can be stored for summertime air conditioning.