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Title: Building a Clean Electricity Future
Description: This chapter is part of a report that provides 76 recommendations that seek to enable the modernization and transformation of the electricity system. "Undertaken in conjunction with state and local governments, policymakers, industry, and other stakeholders, the recommendations provide the building blocks for longer-term, planned changes and activities."
Identifier (PID): yul:1120707

Title: Investing in Coal Communities, Workers, and Technology: The POWER+ Plan
Description: This section of the Budget documentation provides an outline of a strategy for a just transition for coal workers in the U.S.
Identifier (PID): yul:1120675

Title: Chapter 9: Human Health from "Climate Change Impacts in the United States: The Third National Climate Assessment"
Description: Chapter 9 of the landmark 3rd National Climate Assessment deals with human health impacts of climate change. Taking climate change as a global public health issue, the chapter states: "Key drivers of vulnerability include the attributes of certain groups (age, socioeconomic status, race, current level of health – see Ch. 12: Indigenous Peoples for examples of health impacts on vulnerable populations) and of place (floodplains, coastal zones, and urban areas), as well as the re-silience of critical public health infrastructure. Multi-stressor situations, such as impacts on vulnerable populations following natural disasters that also damage the social and physical infrastructure necessary for resilience and emergency response, are particularly important. Discusses heat stress in general, not as an occupational hazard.
Identifier (PID): yul:1120588