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20 Apr 2018 |
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Hydraulic Fracturing for Oil and Gas: Impacts from the Hydraulic Fracturing Water Cycle on Drinking Water Resources in the United States (Final Report)
This final report provides a review and synthesis of available scientific information concerning the relationship between hydraulic fracturing activities and drinking water resources in the United States. EPA found scientific evidence that hydraulic fracturing activities can impact drinking water resources under some circumstances. ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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A Breath of Fresh Air: Addressing Climate Change and Air Pollution Together for Health
This report from the Alliance considers the ways in which integrated strategies to address air pollution and climate change will simultaneously lead to greater health benefits and cost-savings, than strategies which address them separately. It is clear that in order to protect health and wellbeing from the dangerous impacts of ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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SCIENCE IS LINKING FOSSIL FUELS AND NEUROLOGICAL DAMAGE
Both individually and in combination, the chemicals in air pollution are causing or are implicated in a disturbingly wide range of serious health problems that extend far beyond asthma, heat-related distress and infectious diseases. Over the last ten years, peer-reviewed research findings from academic centers around the world have ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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CLIMATE AND HEALTH COUNTRY PROFILE – 2015 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
This graphic document summarizes the key findings and opportunities for action regarding climate change—and health—in the US. Topics include implications for health during extreme weather events, heat, changes in policy and governance, etc.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Assessing Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Health Co-Benefits: A Structured Review of Lifestyle-Related Climate Change Mitigation Strategies
This is the first structured review to identify and summarize research on lifestyle choices that improve health and have the greatest potential to mitigate climate change. Two literature searches were conducted on: (1) active transport health co-benefits, and (2) dietary health co-benefits.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change and chronic disease: twin perils and a golden opportunity to solve both
As incomes rise in developing countries, their citizens buy more cars and eat more meat. Chronic conditions like diabetes and heart disease are rising globally in parallel. This link provides even more golden opportunities for public health. The value of health dividends outweighs the costs of striving for an energy efficient, ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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AMA to Protect Human Health from the Effects of Climate Change by Ending Its Investments in Fossil Fuel Companies (Divestment)
Resolution by AMA on climate change and fossil fuel divestment.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Empower Kentucky: Executive Summary of the Empower Kentucky Plan
Over a 15-to-20 year period, KFTC’s Empower Kentucky plan would bring about a reduction of 40 percent of the state’s carbon emissions, which would also prevent the emission of “93 thousand tons of sulfur dioxide and 132 thousand tons of nitrogen oxide pollution over 15 years.” By 2032, the plan would generate some 43,000 ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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100 percent renewables—for a healthful California
A great op-ed co-authored by PHI President Mary Pittman about policy that could bring a 100% renewable energy future to California, which would greatly benefit our health.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate and Energy in the Health Care Sector: An Interview with Bill Ravanesi
The health care industry has the power to appreciably move the needle on climate and energy progress. Leaders in the sector are harnessing that power, to the benefit of their communities and the world as a whole.