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20 Apr 2018 |
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The Carbon-Free City Handbook
This handbook, developed by the Rocky Mountain Institute, is organized around 22 recommendations for no-regrets actions that will help cities become carbon free. The recommendations are numbered continuously and are divided among five sections
20 Apr 2018 |
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Babies born to moms who lived near fracking wells faced host of health risks, study suggests
After combing through a decade’s worth of Pennsylvania birth records, researchers have found that pregnant women living within two-thirds of a mile of a hydraulic fracturing well were 25% more likely to give birth to a worringly small infant than were women who lived at least 10 miles outside that zone during pregnancy.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Let’s Lead on Climate
This guide features stories from organizations and communities across America that have successfully engaged their constituents in programs and initiatives to elevate climate leadership, action, and solutions. From nurses to pastors to local leaders, these stories allow others to see how Americans just like themselves have led on ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change and Health in LA County: Opportunities for Clinical Intervention
As the impacts of climate change continue to intensify across Los Angeles County, clinicians can expect an exacerbation of many patient health problems ranging from respiratory illness to infectious diseases. Residents of LA County are especially vulnerbale to health risks associated with increasing extreme heat events, declining air ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Declaration of the Health of People, Health of Planet and Our Responsibility
This declaration is based on the data and concepts presented at the workshop: Health of People, Health of Planet and Our Responsibilty; Climate Change, Air Pollution, and Health
20 Apr 2018 |
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Fumes Across the Fence-Line: The Health Impacts of Air Pollution from Oil & Gas Facilities on African American Communities
The oil and gas industry dumps 9 million tons of methane and toxic pollutants like benzene into out air each year. Methane is a greenhouse gas 87 times more potent than carbon dioxide at driving climate change and the oil and gas industry is now the largest source of methane pollution in the U.S. But […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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How the Public Health Community is Leading on Climate Change: The American Public Health Association has divested from fossil fuels and named the 2017 “Year of Climate Change”
When the internationsl climate negotiation COP23 opened on November 6, the U.S. delegation was sidelined for the first time in international climate negotiations. Following the Trump Administration’s decision to pull out of the Paris Accord and its refusal to fund an official U.S. pavilion at the meeting, state and local ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Local health departments are buidling power for health equity
After years of struggling to close health disparities, a new movement has taken root: local health departments are using a set of strategic practices to confront power imbalances and forms of oppression at the root of health inequities, change the conversation about what created health equity, develop leadership and support ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change and Human Health in New Hampshire: An Impact Assessment
Climate change threatens human health in many ways. The negative impacts of climate change on human health are likely to increase in both magnitude and frequency as the climate system continues to change in response to ever increasing global emissions of heat-trapping gases released from a variety of human activities. The Centers for ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Analysis of the Public Health Impacts of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, 2009-2014
This independent study provides an analysis of the public health impacts of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) over its first six years of implementation (2009 to 2014). RGGI is the nation’s first regional regulatory program designed to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from large electric power plants, and ...