Workers exposed to extreme heat have no consistent protection in US | Gabe Stern / The Associated Press

RENO, Nev.—Santos Brizuela spent more than two decades laboring outdoors, persisting despite a bout of heatstroke while cutting sugarcane in Mexico and chronic laryngitis from repeated exposure to the hot sun while on various other jobs. But last summer, while on a construction crew in Las Vegas, he reached his…

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