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20 Apr 2018 |
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Building Your Advocacy Toobox: Advocacy vs. Lobbying
Advocacy is a central tenet of public health. Without advocacy, we wouldn’t have seatbelt laws, safe drinking water, and nutrition labeling. It is vital in advancing public health to keep our communities healthy and safe. If public health stakeholders don’t speak up and advocate for important public health issues, opposing sides ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Opposition Letter to CRA Resolution that Would Block Air Pollution Limits
On behalf of the tens of thousands of members of the undersigned medical and public health organizations, and the communities we serve, we strongly urge you to oppose any Congressional Review Act resolution of disapproval that would block air pollution limits that address the leakage of methane, including the Bureau of Land ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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The EPA is Already Great
This is not the time to limit the Environmental Protection Agency’s scope or throttle back its efforts. Americans should empower the agency to do more on behalf of our families and our standard of living. The agency’s successes are worthy of celebration; the cost of retreat is staggering. Did you know we could save an ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Deadly Impact of Airborne Particles
The link between air pollution and death was established in a series of disasters around the world. About 15% of all deaths in the world are from ischemic heart disease; that’s when your heart literally suffocates. As the levels of air pollution increase, the percent of deaths from heart disease rises sharply – even at […]
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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Doctors must respond to changes in the politics of climate change
We call on medical professionals to redouble their efforts to keep the health effects of climate change front and center in the national debate over budgeting priorities. Members of the climate science community, as well as growing numbers of state and local governments and major corporations, have begun resisting the Trump ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Why medicine is relevant to the battle against climate change
Part of a series featuring medical students and health professionals’ writing and work on climate change and health.
20 Apr 2018 |
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THE LOFOTEN DECLARATION
Climate Leadership Requires a Managed Decline of Fossil Fuel Production: The Lofoten Declaration affirms that it is the urgent responsibility and moral obligation of wealthy fossil fuel producers to lead in putting an end to fossil fuel development and to manage the decline of existing production.
20 Apr 2018 |
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The Health Effects of Fracking: Fracking Harms Human Health
Health and Energy Brief on the health effects of fracking. The peer-reviewed scientific literature now includes more than 700 studies on the impacts of unconventional gas development; most were published in just the last three years. Of the studies looking specifically at health impacts, more than 80 percent document risks or actual harms.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Barbara Gottlieb’s (PSR) Testimony on EPA Methane Standards
Testimony of Barbara Gottlieb, Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR). Speaking On the Oil and Gas New Source Performance Standards. Docket IDs No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2010-0505 and EPA-HQ-OAR-2017-0346. Testimony given July 10, 2017 in Washington, DC.