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Taxonomy Archive: overview/general
20 Apr 2018 |
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What We Breathe Impacts Our Health: Improving Understanding of the Link between Air Pollution and Health
Air pollution contributes to the premature deaths of millions of people each year around the world, and air quality problems are growing in many developing nations. While past policy efforts have succeeded in reducing particulate matter and trace gases in North America and Europe, adverse health effects are found at even these lower ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Divestment for Health
The Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE) presents the need for divestment from fossil fuels for human and environmental health. CAPE encourages Canada’s healthcare organizations to make sure their investments are in line with their climate-health vision.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Health Professionals: Sign Letter to Support Strong Methane Standards
We, the undersigned physicians, nurses, and health professionals, strongly support the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed rules to reduce industrial methane and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from new oil and gas sources. These standards will not only help to mitigate climate change and its associated health risks ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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The Health Impacts of Energy Choices: A Briefing Paper for the Health Community
Access to energy for cooking, heating, transport, and productive activities is essential to human health. Access to electricity is also critical to improving health service delivery, strengthening health systems, and achieving universal health coverage. As the World Health Organization (WHO) observes, “energy access in health ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Heads They Win, Tails We Lose: How Corporations Corrupt Science at the Public’s Expense
Access to the best available science allows federal decision makers to craft policies that protect our health and safety and the environment. Unfortunately, censorship of scientists and the manipulation, distortion, and suppression of scientific information has threatened the federal scientific enterprise in recent years. This ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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What now, after the Supreme Court stay? Moving forward with the Clean Power Plan
As you probably know, the Clean Power Plan (CPP) faces a serious legal challenge. Twenty-nine state attorneys general and state agencies sued the EPA in 2015, claiming that EPA exceeded its authority in drafting some aspects of the CPP. The Supreme Court in February 2016 issued a “stay,” or a temporary suspension, of the ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Fossil fuels are the new tobacco when it comes to health risk
As future doctors we call on the Wellcome Trust and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to remove their investments from fossil fuel companies. We share a responsibility to our future patients to address unmitigated climate change – described as “the biggest health threat of the 21st century” – and to advocate for a ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Mutiple Threats to Child Health from Fossil Fuel Combustion: Impacts of Air Pollution and Climate Change
Approaches to estimating and addressing the risk to children from fossil fuel combustion have been fragmented, tending to focus either on the toxic air emissions or on climate change. Yet developing children, and especially poor children, now bear a disproportionate burden of disease from both environmental pollution and climate ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Cutting Greenhouse Gas Emissions Is Only the Beginning: A Literature Review of the Co-Benefits of Reducing Vehicle Miles Traveled
While state goals for reducing GHG emissions have been one motivation for the shift to VMT measures, reductions in VMT produce many other potential benefits, referred to as “cobenefits,” such as reductions in other air pollutant emissions, water pollution, wildlife mortality, and traffic congestion, as well as improvements in ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Latino Communities at Risk: The Impact of Air Pollution from the Oil and Gas Industry
Many Latino communities face serious health risks caused by air pollution. What’s more, higher poverty levels and relatively lower rates of health insurance increase these health threats from air pollution translating into a bigger health burden on Latino communities. This report for the first time quantifies the elevated health ...