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Taxonomy Archive: energy efficiency
20 Apr 2018 |
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Another View: Fracking threatens our children’s health
This brief opinion piece appeared in the Sacramento Bee in August 2015 discussing the health impacts associated with fracking on children. The piece advocates for renewable and clean energy alternatives.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Case Studies Series: Using Health Impact Assessment to Identify the Best Investment in Energy Efficiency and Health
Despite the recent decrease in the cost of utility service for many Americans, access to reliable, affordable heat, air-conditioning, and lights remains a challenge and an underappreciated social determinant of health related to housing. Renewable energy and sustainability mandates, climate change planning, and infrastructure ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Clean Energy Packs Savings for Seniors
On June 2, 2014, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed the Clean Power Plan, the first- ever limits on carbon pollution from existing power plants. Entrenched coal interests immediately seized on the proposal as one that would dramatically cut coal use, force the implementation of new and expensive technologies, and ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Energy Efficiency and Health
Lowering the amount of energy we waste reduces our need to burn coal and other fossil fuels to generate electricity. Those reductions in pollution mean big gains for health, as pollutants from fossil fuel combustion contribute to four of the leading causes of death in the United States: cancer, chronic lower respiratory diseases, ...
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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Health co-benefits of climate change mitigation: housing sector
This report considers the scientific evidence regarding possible health gains and, where relevant, health risks of climate change mitigation measures in the residential housing sector.This analysis reviews and evaluates the potential health impacts of mitigation strategies and technologies for the residential building sector, with a ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Bridging the Clean Energy Divide: Affordable Clean Energy Solutions for Today and Tomorrow
The impacts of pollution often hit the poor the hardest. And experts predict that climate change will worsen the situation. However, the shift to clean energy offers a chance to prevent the worst impacts of climate change, while lessening the toll that dirty fossil fuels are currently wreaking on some of our most vulnerable communities
20 Apr 2018 |
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The Letter
We are Minnesota physicians, nurses, public health professionals and students dedicated to the best possible health of our patients and our communities. We are members of health care organizations and institutions located throughout Minnesota. As such we are writing to call your attention to important opportunities to improve health ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Health & Environment Video Series
Energy efficiency can improve public helath by reducing pollution and making people’s homes safer. ACEE’s new Health & Environment program is doing pioneering reserach to document how saving energy does more than save money—it protects health.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Saving Energy, Saving Lives: The Health Impacts of Avoiding Power Plant Pollution with Energy Efficiency
People are harmed by power plant pollution even when they cannot see the smoke stacks. A report by the American Lung Association found that in recent years more than 125 million people – 4 out of every 10 Americans – were exposed to unhealthy levels of air pollution, much of which came from power plants. […]