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CSTE Hill Update: February 2023

CSTE

In late December, Congress passed an omnibus spending bill funding federal agencies through the remainder of Fiscal Year (FY) 2023. After many wins in FY 2023, there are new factors to consider as the FY 2024 appropriations process begins. The omnibus bill also included $9.2

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CSTE Hill Update: September 2023

CSTE

The report notes that $15 million will be shifted to CDCs Ready Response Enterprise Data Integration (RREDI) Platform.

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U.N. report: 85,000 cases of femicide in 2023. And that's likely an undercount

NPR Health

These are women murdered by an intimate partner, a family member, a rapist, a stranger randomly assaulting females. Laws do not always offer protection and justice. What needs to be done? Image credit: Anuwar Hazarika/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

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CSTE Hill Update: 2023 Year in Review

CSTE

Congress will have its work cut out for it next month with two deadlines that could spell a partial or full government shutdown if bipartisan negotiations break down.

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CSTE Hill Update: November 2023

CSTE

Weve made it past the end of the Fiscal Year (FY) on September 30 and Halloween is behind us, but November brings a gentle reminder of the continued threats that lurk in the shadows of Washington, DC.

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2023 was the hottest summer in two thousand years

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Researchers have found that 2023 was the hottest summer in the Northern Hemisphere in the past two thousand years, almost four degrees warmer than the coldest summer during the same period.

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Mortality impacts of the most extreme heat events

Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

This Review assesses mortality risk associated with extreme heat, revealing that human thermal tolerances (that is, uncompensable thresholds) were crossed for ~2% and 21% of global land area for young adults and older adults, respectively, from 1994 to 2023.

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