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Taxonomy Archive: coal
20 Apr 2018 |
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Letter: Save the air
Lance Boucher of the American Lung Association addressed State House legislators on June 1 to discuss why the ALA endorses the Clean Power Plan.Boucher discussed the ALA “2016 State of the Air Report,” which measured the two most widespread air pollutants – ozone and particle pollutants – both dangerous to public health. ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Lecornu: Climate change effects health
Southard is absolutely right. The impacts of climate change are completely devastating. In addition to the extreme weather that climate change exacerbates, like flooding, droughts and powerful hurricanes, it also causes damage to our health. Higher temperatures and poorer air quality can lead to increased asthma attacks, other lung ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Renewable energy is healthy energy
A future powered by healthy energy will require reducing dependence on dirty sources of energy, using energy more efficiently, and increasing investment in clean, renewable energy choices
20 Apr 2018 |
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Obama’s Clean Power Plan: a breath of fresh air
“An unacceptably high and potentially catastrophic risk to human health” was how a 2015 Commission published by The Lancet described the risks posed by climate change. With this in mind, the Clean Power Plan, unveiled by President Barack Obama and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Aug 3, should be welcomed with open ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Oakland rejects coal terminal, sets example on climate change
Two weeks ago, the Oakland City Council unanimously voted to ban the handling and storage of coal in the city, quashing a proposal to build what could have been the largest coal export facility in California.It was a remarkable display of leadership and foresight: Council members put the health and safety of their residents above ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Naomi Klein on the racism that underlies climate change inaction
In recent months, the world’s gaze has landed again and again on a hellish Australian terrain of climate-related disaster. Bushfires ravage some of the planet’s oldest trees in Tasmania. Catastrophic coral bleaching leaves much of the Great Barrier Reef a ghostly white. The first known mammal to be wiped out by global warming was ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Let’s limit carbon emissions
On June 23, the U.S. Surgeon General, Vice Admiral Vivek H. Murthy, told health leaders gathered at the White House Summit on Climate Change and Health that climate change poses a “serious, immediate and global threat to human health,” urging that it is “well past time” to take action. Recent evidence makes it clear that […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Health and climate benefits of different energy-efficiency and renewable energy choices
Energy efficiency (EE) and renewable energy (RE) can benefit public health and the climate by displacing emissions from fossil-fuelled electrical generating units (EGUs). Benefits can vary substantially by EE/RE installation type and location, due to differing electricity generation or savings by location, characteristics of the ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Coal’s Public Health and Safety Impacts
Representatives of the Alameda County Public Health Department drafted this letter to express concerns about and recommendations for preventing the potential negative health and safety impacts of the proposed coal export project at the former Oakland Army Base.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Health Professional Organizations Call on Governors to Continue Advancing the Clean Power Plan for the Health of the Nation
A report on the very first analysis of the cross-border impacts on health of coal power plants in the EU has been published today. The Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL), Climate Action network (CAN) Europe, the WWF European Policy Office and Sandbag, have outlined the enormous benefits a full coal phase-out would bring.