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Heat kills. Federal programs aren’t helping.
Extreme heat is the deadliest weather emergency, but federal disaster aid is shortchanging the nation’s hottest regions. That’s according to an investigation by my colleague Thomas Frank, who found a pattern of federal agencies ignoring or minimizing the …