As the world moves on from what may have been the hottest month in recorded history, the state’s junior senator is calling on his colleagues to help the communities most affected by the brutal summer heat.

U.S. Sen. Ed Markey says he has reintroduced his Preventing Health Emergencies And Temperature-related (HEAT) Illness and Deaths Act following “earth’s hottest day on record and the predicted hottest day in the past 125,000 years.”

“It’s no coincidence that we’ve seen back-to-back record-breaking heat this summer—it’s the climate crisis announcing it’s at our doorstep. We need to take bold and aggressive action to combat the climate crisis, but we also need to act fast to protect Americans from the health risks of extreme heat that we are experiencing right now,” Markey said in a statement.

According to the Malden native, on average 700 Americans die as a result of extreme heat and more than 67,000 wind up in an emergency room due to a heat-related injury each year. Markey says his bill would provide $100 million in financial assistance for community-based projects aimed at mitigating the impact of extreme heat exposure on residents.

“As unprecedented waves of sweltering heat persist, I will keep calling on my colleagues in Congress to pass the Preventing HEAT Illness and Deaths Act and create a national response to save lives,” Markey said.

The legislation would also create a “National Integrated Heat Health Information System Interagency Committee” to ease interagency response to heat emergencies, commission a study on how the federal government has responded to heat injuries so far, and expand some climate programs created under the Obama Administration.

In a report published last week, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service and the World Meteorological Organization declared that, despite there being several more days left in the month, July would be the hottest month ever recorded.

In response to the report, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on the world’s richest countries to do more to stop the emission of greenhouse gasses, levels of which continue to rise despite pledges by the globe’s industrial leaders to reduce their production.

“Climate change is here. It is terrifying. And it is just the beginning,” Guterres said. “The era of global warming has ended; the era of global boiling has arrived.”

Herald wire services contributed to this report.