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Across America, temperatures are soaring – but industry groups are opposing potentially life-saving heat regulations

Industry groups have spent decades lobbying against life-saving extreme heat protections for outdoor workers.

Handful of states recently approved new regulations but enforcement of heat rules is patchy, labor advocates say.

When most of us think of sustainability and construction, the usual suspects probably come to mind: efficient cooling and heating, using nontoxic building materials, minimizing environmental degradation — in other words, being green. But in Austin, Texas, a new effort is working to expand the definition of sustainability from the buildings themselves to the hands that put them together.

The pain usually starts for Karla Perez when the temperature reaches 100 degrees.