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Texas Workers Keep Dying in the Heat

Inside Climate News · By Martha Pskowski, Keerti Gopal · last updated
Despite its blazing temperatures, Texas has no labor protections for heat. That leaves workers, especially immigrants, vulnerable on the job.

By Martha Pskowski, Keerti Gopal

Eighteen-year-old Danny Nolasco spent the day of July 15, 2024, mixing and hauling buckets of cement at a construction site in stifling heat.