{"content":[{"text":"• Incorporate travel efficiency \n strategies that reduce vehicle \n trips and miles traveled into \n Regional Transportation \n Plans and Programs","bbox":{"left":0.254902,"top":0.102939,"width":0.22797799999999996,"height":0.08741300000000002}},{"text":"of contaminants, the flooding still caused significant \n damage to the facility’s infrastructure. To anticipate and \n prepare for future events, officials decided to raise \n critical infrastructure components to several feet above \n previous flood events and decided to repair \n impoundments to withstand a 1-in-500 year flood event.","bbox":{"left":0.513063,"top":0.102958,"width":0.432936,"height":0.105097}},{"text":"Adaptation in Action: The \n Sustainable Salt Lake Plan \n 2015 reflects a broad and \n ambitious agenda to protect \n Salt Lake City's resources, enhance assets, and establish a \n path towards greater community resiliency. The plan set \n goals to improve air quality, protect community health, \n and reduce particulate matter (PM) and ozone pollution. \n The city adopted specific measures to decrease miles \n traveled, reduce vehicle idling, and promote alternative \n transportation. By employing these clean air strategies, \n the city attained both adaptation and mitigation \n benefits.","bbox":{"left":0.053918,"top":0.209005,"width":0.43060099999999996,"height":0.22886099999999998}},{"text":"Emergency Response to Heat Events \n Higher temperatures from climate change will increase \n the risks of heat stress and heat-related deaths. Those \n most vulnerable to extreme heat are the elderly, very \n young children, infirm, poor, and socially isolated people. \n Heat events trap air pollution and humidity, making it \n difficult for those with respiratory illness to breathe. \n Extreme heat events stress city services as well as \n generally decrease labor productivity.","bbox":{"left":0.513063,"top":0.227357,"width":0.425326,"height":0.15749}},{"text":"What are some heat event adaptation strategies? \n • Develop an emergency heat plan to prepare city services \n for a heat event \n • Establish cooling centers to reduce heat stress and \n heat-related deaths and illnesses \n • Provide emergency notification and well-being checks to \n protect the most vulnerable \n • Incorporate heat island reduction strategies - such as \n green or cool roofs, cool pavements, or increased \n vegetation and trees - into long-term planning efforts to \n help lower urban temperatures","bbox":{"left":0.511428,"top":0.404149,"width":0.433731,"height":0.19276499999999996}},{"text":"Waste Management and Exposure to Chemicals \n Flooding from more intense and frequent storms due to \n climate change increases the risk of releases from \n contaminated sites and facilities where chemicals are \n stored. Such areas include Superfund sites, brownfields, \n and underground storage tank sites. The storms could \n also result in the generation of more disaster debris, \n further challenging local chemical and waste \n management capacity.","bbox":{"left":0.053918,"top":0.457168,"width":0.416934,"height":0.157489}},{"text":"What are some chemical and waste management \n adaptation strategies? \n • Develop crisis management plans to anticipate and \n prepare for future extreme climatic events \n • Account for climate risks in Brownfields cleanup and \n redevelopment activities \n • Integrate future flood risk projections into remedy \n selection for hazardous waste cleanups \n • Consider opportunities for toxic use reduction and safer \n chemical storage strategies (e.g., not storing chemicals \n in flood-prone locations such as basements) to reduce \n the potential for chemical release during flood events","bbox":{"left":0.053918,"top":0.633959,"width":0.42507999999999996,"height":0.21042899999999998}},{"text":"Adaptation in Action: In 1995, more than 700 people \n died during a five-day heat event in Chicago. This event \n prompted Chicago to strengthen and update its heat \n emergency response system. The city now encourages \n residents to register for Notify Chicago, the city’s text and \n email emergency notification system. Residents can also \n call 311 to have officials conduct well-being checks for \n those who may need additional assistance. Disaster \n preparedness and response trainings have also helped to \n increase individual and community resilience and better \n prepare Chicago for subsequent extreme heat events.","bbox":{"left":0.509802,"top":0.615567,"width":0.4196,"height":0.1935}},{"text":"Transportation \n Climate change may stress the transportation network \n and infrastructure systems that are vital to any \n community’s economy. Extreme weather events and \n flooding from intense downpours may damage \n transportation infrastructure and increase the risk of \n disruptions and delays in air, rail, and road transportation.","bbox":{"left":0.509802,"top":0.828369,"width":0.42865300000000006,"height":0.12212800000000001}},{"text":"Adaptation in Action: Hurricane Irene dumped seven \n inches of rainfall in 48 hours in 2011 at the American \n Cyanamid Superfund site in New Jersey. The site, \n already in an exceedingly wet state prior to the \n hurricane, flooded. 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