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20 Apr 2018 |
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Adopting clean-fuels standard is a public health imperative
EACH and every day, we take an average of 21,000 breaths. For some of us, those breaths come and go without a thought. For those with asthma or other lung diseases, each breath can be a struggle.In our state, more than a half million adults and 105,000 youths have asthma. Dirty air can trigger severe […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Air Pollution is Yet Another Issue that Disproportionately Impacts Minority and Low-Income Communities
First responders are trained to give people immediate life-saving care and get people out of dangerous situations. When a patient is suffering an asthma attack that’s caused by air pollution in their community, we can administer drugs to calm the attack, but we know it is only a temporary fix. To reduce the risk over […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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The Clean Power Plan: A Public Health Victory Needing Medical Attention
On August 3, 2015 the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued guidelines to reduce the emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) from power plants. This action, known as the Clean Power Plan, is the single biggest step the United States has taken to address climate change. CO2 accounts for more than 80% of greenhouse gas ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change and Health Talking Points
American College of Physicians (ACP) presents a series of climate change and talking points for physicians in this brief document.
20 Apr 2018 |
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How Deadly Is Your Kilowatt? We Rank The Killer Energy Sources
Everyone’s heard of the carbon footprint of different energy sources, the largest footprint belonging to coal because every kWhr of energy produced emits about 900 grams of CO2. Wind and nuclear have the smallest carbon footprint with only 15 g emitted per kWhr, and that mainly from concrete production, construction, and mining ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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The Northern Manhattan Climate Action Plan
Over the past several years, climate change has begun to exact a disproportionate toll on the poor and working class people of New York City. During Hurricane Sandy, we saw that marginalized communities lost their homes, jobs, financial security and more at a higher rate than others. Yet, to this day, the political and economic […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Sustainability in the Workplace: A New Approach for Advancing Worker Safety and Health
The three pillars of environment, society, and economy are frequently used to model how sustainability can be incorporated into an organization’s mission, goals, and practices. The “three Venn” diagram is a well-recognized visualization of these pillars. Each of the pillars is considered essential for sustainable outcomes to be ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Whether doctor or meteorologist, when we fail to look at systemic causes of the immediate problems in front of us, we are guilty of malpractice.
At the core of medical and of public health training, we learn that you cannot just look narrowly at the problem in front of you, you are obliged to look for the systemic causes, how did the patient get into this state and what are the challenges going forward? Failing to do so is malpractice. […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Congressional Review Act Letter- February, 2017
On behalf of the tens of thousands of members of the undersigned medical and public health organizations, and the communities we serve, we strongly urge you to oppose any Congressional Review Act resolution of disapproval that would block air pollution limits that address the leakage of methane, including the Bureau of Land ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Harzard Zone: The Impact of Climate Change on Occupational Health
Global climate change has the potential to affect human health in two significant ways: by changing the severity and frequency of health issues already affected by climate factors, and by creating unprecedented health threats in places where they have not previously occurred. Studies show that global warming will likely amplify ...