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Taxonomy Archive: renewable/clean energy
20 Apr 2018 |
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Iowa Climate Statement 2014: Impacts on the Health of Iowans
Iowans are experiencing the very real impacts of climate change, including heavier rains in spring, increased flooding, and a longer growing season. Human health effects are just as real and are already being felt in Iowa. Most obvious, immediate, and direct are the health‐related effects of extreme events, which are increasing in ...
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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Ent y Cambio Climatico: Oportunidades Conjuntas para la Accion
El cambio climático y las enfermedades no transmisibles (ENT) son dos de los retos decisivos del siglo 21, cada uno presenta una amenaza significativa para la salud y el desarrollo sostenible. Se proyecta que el cambio climático tendrá efectos cada vez más perjudiciales para las comunidades y las economías en las próximas ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Healthcare Without Harm
The Climate program for Health Care Without Harm works with health care workers, health care professionals, and hospitals to promote climate leadership. Examples of strategies include employee engagement, clean tech investment, fossil fuel divestment, resiliency, and identifying and supporting clinical climate champions.
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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Hydraulic Fracturing and Your Health: Air Contamination
The process of hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” is a newer and more dangerous version of natural gas and oil extraction. Designed to enable the extraction of previously untapped gas and oil reserves, fracking pumps a high-pressure mixture of toxic chemicals and water underground to fracture deep shale rock formations. The ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Health Risks of Hydraulic Fracturing: Harm on the Farm
The process of hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” is a newer and more dangerous version of natural gas and oil extraction. Hydraulic fracturing requires the high-pressure pumping of millions of gallons of a chemical mixture, called hydraulic fracturing fluid, into the ground in order to fracture shale rock formations and ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Hydraulic Fracturing and Your Health: Water Contamination
Fracking operations consume and contaminate enormous quantities of water. In order to fracture a single well site, natural gas companies typically use over 4 million gallons of water. This amount of water is equivalent to what 11,000 American families use in a day. Such intensive water use has become an issue in states such as […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Inform Policy Makers in Your State about the Health Benefits of Implementing the Clean Power Plan: A Brief Toolkit for Clinicians and Public Health Professionals
Climate change, together with other natural and human-made health stressors, influence human health and disease in numerous ways. Some existing health threats will intensify and new health threats will emerge. Not everyone is equally at risk. Important considerations include age, economic resources, and location. Preventive and ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Adopting clean-fuels standard is a public health imperative
EACH and every day, we take an average of 21,000 breaths. For some of us, those breaths come and go without a thought. For those with asthma or other lung diseases, each breath can be a struggle.In our state, more than a half million adults and 105,000 youths have asthma. Dirty air can trigger severe […]