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April 2024
In April 2024, the North Carolina Office of Recovery and Resilience (NCORR) published a toolkit on how to develop heat action plans to help local governments and community partners increase community resilience to extreme heat.
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March 1, 2024
In March 2024, the State of Arizona published its Extreme Heat Preparedness Plan, recognizing the increasing impacts of extreme heat on the state, outlining how state agencies are preparing for heat events, and making recommendations for future actions to prepare for extreme heat. The plan builds on a 2023 executive order on extreme heat planning and preparedness.
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March 1, 2024
Published in 2024, the Extreme Heat Social and Behavioral Science Research study was developed for the National Weather Service (NWS) to inform how the agency messages to the public, particularly at-risk populations, about heat impacts on human health.
Authors or Affiliated Users: Joyce Coffee , Alexis St. Juliana
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December 9, 2023
The Nature-Based Solutions Resource Guide 2. 0, released by the White House in December of 2023, aims to encourage implementation and awareness of nature-based solutions employed by federal agencies and partners. The Guide defines nature-based solutions as “actions to protect, sustainably manage, or restore natural or modified ecosystems to address societal challenges, simultaneously providing benefits for people and the environment. ” Nature-based solutions can be used to provide a wide range of benefits, such as supporting wildlife, reducing heat stress, reducing future disaster risk, and overcoming environmental injustices.
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2023
Established in 2023 through a one-time appropriation of $100 million in state funds, the Minnesota Climate Resiliency and Water Infrastructure Grant program provided funding for local and Tribal governments across the state to pursue climate resilience and infrastructure projects.
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August 11, 2023
Executive Order 2023-16, Extreme Heat Planning and Preparedness, was signed in 2023, requiring the development of a statewide plan to address and prepare for the increasing impacts of extreme heat in Arizona. The EO recognizes the worsening public health effects from heat events and establishes new requirements to improve planning and preparedness for extreme heat.
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June 13, 2023
In 2023, Louisiana House Bill 526 was adopted and signed into law as Act 315, establishing the position of Chief Resilience Officer within the Office of the Governor by statute, and mandating a cross-government approach to resilience and environmental hazards faced by the state.
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May 22, 2023
On May 22, 2023, the Montana State Legislature passed House Bill 883. HB 883 amended Montana Code § 76-13-150 (2023), adding a one-time grant of $152 million to the fire suppression account in the state special revenue fund and expanding fund usage to include fire preparedness.
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May 15, 2023
In a bid to promote public health and safety while also limiting flood-related losses, the City of Woodbury, New Jersey, passed Ordinance no. 2386.23, which introduces regulations for development in flood hazard areas. Most notably, the ordinance establishes additional freeboard for critical facilities, and directly points to the authority of the American Society of Civil Engineers in its standard for Flood Resistant Design and Construction (ASCE 24) as the explanation for doing so.
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May 12, 2023
Colorado’s SB 23-166 established the Wildfire Resiliency Code Board to improve community resiliency to wildfires through the implementation of model codes by a board of government and industry professionals.
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