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☆ Rising Temperatures Threaten More Than Misery for Oldest Americans
  + stars: | 2023-07-08 | by ( Shannon Sims | Rick Rojas | More About Rick Rojas | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
When the torrential rain stopped on Friday afternoon, Laura Lowry could see the steam rising off the wet pavement. She was on her front porch in the Fifth Ward neighborhood of Houston, desperate for relief from the relentless humidity and 91-degree heat. The air-conditioner in her house worked, but she and her husband, reliant on disability checks, couldn’t afford to run it. The lack of cool air wasn’t simply a matter of discomfort for Ms. Lowry, 73. “I felt like I was passing out.”Another wave of dangerous heat sweeping across the South and into the West this week has posed particular perils for older people, who are among the most vulnerable to such extreme conditions.
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☆ Groups across the country are fighting efforts to expand ‘harmful’ highways
  + stars: | 2022-10-15 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms | Char Adams | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +10 min
Organizers with Stop TxDOT I-45 said expanding in the area would hurt the predominantly Black and Latino communities along the stretch. Kendra London joined Stop TxDOT I-45 three years ago when she learned of the state’s plans to expand the highway. Stop TxDOT I-45 and Allendale Strong are two of more than 70 groups across the country that comprise the Freeway Fighters Network, a coalition of groups advocating for the dismantling of harmful highways and urging city leaders not to expand highways or build new ones. “We hadn’t actually stopped building new highways that still harm communities, predominantly communities of color. “We should be thinking about long-term repair,” Hood said, highlighting the Black communities affected by the highway.
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