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Taxonomy Archive: Report
20 Apr 2018 |
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Just Energy Policies: Reducing Pollution and Creating Jobs
With a growing understanding of the harmful impact of fossil fuel-based energy production on communities of color and low income communities, it is more important now than ever before that our communities take a stand to move our country to an energy efficient and clean energy future. Our intention in creating this compendium is that ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Removals of Climate Change Mentions and Links from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Website
This report summarizes the removal of mentions of climate change on public sites by The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). NEIHS has altered climate change language, updated climate change references, and reduced access to a Web resource with information on climate change and human health across several ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change in the American Mind: November 2016
This report is based on findings from a nationally representative survey – Climate Change in the American Mind – conducted by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication (climatecommunication.yale.edu) and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication (climatechangecommunication.org). Our nationally ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Protecting the Health and Well-Being of Communities in a Changing Climate: Proceedings of a Workshop
On March 13, 2017, the Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine and the Roundtable on Population Health Improvement jointly convened a 1-day public workshop, Protecting the Health and Well-being of Communities in a Changing Climate in Washington, DC. The workshop was intended to exploring the implications ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Public Health Research Roadmap on Emerging Electricity Generating Systems
This report establishes a public health research roadmap aimed at anticipating and preventing potential unintended health impacts of emerging electricity generating, storing, and distributing systems (EES). Through expert interviews and bibliographic research, this Public Health Research Roadmap provides a compilation of resources ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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The Carbon-Free City Handbook
This handbook, developed by the Rocky Mountain Institute, is organized around 22 recommendations for no-regrets actions that will help cities become carbon free. The recommendations are numbered continuously and are divided among five sections
20 Apr 2018 |
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Let’s Lead on Climate
This guide features stories from organizations and communities across America that have successfully engaged their constituents in programs and initiatives to elevate climate leadership, action, and solutions. From nurses to pastors to local leaders, these stories allow others to see how Americans just like themselves have led on ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Fumes Across the Fence-Line: The Health Impacts of Air Pollution from Oil & Gas Facilities on African American Communities
The oil and gas industry dumps 9 million tons of methane and toxic pollutants like benzene into out air each year. Methane is a greenhouse gas 87 times more potent than carbon dioxide at driving climate change and the oil and gas industry is now the largest source of methane pollution in the U.S. But […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change and Human Health in New Hampshire: An Impact Assessment
Climate change threatens human health in many ways. The negative impacts of climate change on human health are likely to increase in both magnitude and frequency as the climate system continues to change in response to ever increasing global emissions of heat-trapping gases released from a variety of human activities. The Centers for ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Analysis of the Public Health Impacts of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, 2009-2014
This independent study provides an analysis of the public health impacts of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) over its first six years of implementation (2009 to 2014). RGGI is the nation’s first regional regulatory program designed to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from large electric power plants, and ...