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20 Apr 2018 |
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Driving Change: Reducing Vehicle Miles Traveled in California
Three specific strategies are to be employed to help reduce smissions: Hgiher-density deveopment, investments in alternatives to solo driving, and pricing policies that raise the cost of driving and parking. This report reviews the opportunities and challenges of each of these strategies and assesses California’s recent ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Driving California Forward: Public Health and Societal Economic Benefits of California’s AB 32 Transportation Fuel Policies – LCFS and Cap-and-Trade regulations
This analysis calculates the economic benefit of the LCFS and C&T by evaluating the societal benefits of full implementation in 2020 and 2025, which include 1) avoided public health costs and incidents of illness, 2) avoided fossil fuel dependence costs, and 3) avoided climate change-related costs (see Figure E-1 below for the ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change Challenges: Vehicle Emissions and Public Health in California
This study examines options for reducing emissions from motor vehicles and evaluates each of the options in terms of its public health, climate change, and cost implications, including the uncertainty associated with each option. We examine battery-electric vehiicles, fuel cell vehicles, the use of ethnaol blends in flex-fuel ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change and the lungs
Hotter temperatures will mean that allergy seasons start earlier and last longer. Some very hot days will produce unpleasant peaks in pollution, especially for anyone with a lung problem. This factsheet aims to help prepare individuals, families and communities for climate change and suggests simple actions to help moderate its worst ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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We Care
Factsheet about living in a climate conscious way from San Louis Obispo’s local health department
20 Apr 2018 |
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Critical Connections: Transportation, Climate Change and Public Health
Science has firmly established that climate change is a public health issue and that human activity is causing climate change. International and domestic policy negotiations are under way to decrease greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, in particular CO2, a major contributor to climate change. The transportation sector accounts for 33% of ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Opinion: The case for a child-centered energy and climate policy
Children suffer the most from fossil fuel burning.Fossil fuel combustion and associated air pollution and carbon dioxide (CO2) is the root cause of much of children’s ill health children today as well as their uncertain future. There are strong scientific arguments, as well persuasive economic ones, for reducing the world’s ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Medical Community Warns Climate Change Is an Imminent Public Health Threat
An international alliance of doctors, nurses and other health professionals concerned about the impacts of climate change is urging governments to reach a strong agreement at the ongoing United Nations’ climate negotiations in Paris.Declarations of a global medical consensus on climate change signed by 1,700 health ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Healthy and Climate Friendly Food
We care about healthy living in San Luis Obispo County. That is why we are concerned about climate change. Now is the time to come together as a community and talk about how climate change is affecting our well-being. The good news is, many actions that help limit climate change also improve the health of […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Healthy and Climate Friendly Travel
We care about healthy living in San Luis Obispo County. That is why we are concerned about climate change. Now is the time to come together as a community and talk about how climate change is affecting our well-being. The good news is, many actions that help limit climate change also improve the health of […]