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20 Apr 2018 |
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Our Health At Risk: Why Are Millions of Americans Still Breathing Unhealthy Air?
Despite decades of progress under the Clean Air Act, Americans across the country continue to breathe unhealthy air, leading to increased risk of premature death, asthma attacks and other adverse health impacts. This report details necessary actions to address the air pollution problems affecting people in communities across the ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Toward an understanding of the environmental and public health impacts of shale gas development: an analysis of the peer reviewed scientific literature, 2009-2015
The present categorical assessment provides an overview of the peer-reviewed scientific literature from 2009–2015 as it relates to the potential impacts of UNGD on public health, water quality, and air quality. Our results indicate that at least 685 papers have been published in peer-reviewed scientific journals that are relevant ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Boiling Points: The Inextricable Links Between Inequality and Climate Change
The objective of this report is to comprehensively map the various linkages between climate change and inequality while identifying key gaps in our research knowledge and our policy debates. By doing so, we aim to better integrate these two siloed issues and support efforts to mobilize a broad, multi-interest coalition that fights ...
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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Climate change ‘makes violence likelier’
Scientists say there is a direct link between changing climate and an increase in violence, reinforcing a key finding of the latest IPCC report. Summary of report findings.
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