Hey everybody, I'm Rima Grace. Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where we make today make sense.

And I'm Kimberly Adams. Thanks everyone for joining us. It is Wednesday, June 25th.

Yes, today we were going to get into some news, then do some smiles, the usual.

Kimberly, what caught your

attention today? It's the thing that I absolutely cannot ignore if I even dare to step outside,

which is how ungodly hot it is outside. And, you know... What's it like over there exactly? You're in D.C.

I'm in Oregon, so it's very different.

So I'm running the dehumidifier in my apartment and pulling out something like, I don't know, 20 gallons of water out of my apartment.

Maybe that's exaggerating. It's probably more like 10 gallons of water out of my apartment per day, but I have to like

empty the dehumid of fire like every couple hours. It's a lot of humidity. It's a lot of heat.

And you know, God bless air conditioning for all of its, you know, impacts on the environment.

But, you know, my heart just really goes out to folks who have to work outside in

this heat. And it's so dangerous. I mean, heat, especially heat combined with humidity, can be

incredibly dangerous, incredibly deadly. And so towards the tail end of the Biden administration,

they were working on new rules to actually regulate heat in the workplace. And I'm

just going to read a little bit from an article in Inc. Magazine. There was a proposed rule that

would require employers to offer paid breaks as needed once the temperature reaches 80 degrees Fahrenheit.

When the temperature exceeds 90 degrees Fahrenheit, employers must offer a 15-minute paid

break to workers every two hours. The rule would also require companies to offer breaks

in either air-conditioned settings or when outdoors in shaded areas directing companies to

create structures that offer shade. So this is a proposed rule. Everybody knows I love a good

regulation. The public comment period is closed. But what's happening right now, like this week

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