Environmental Health News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Laura Diaz joins the Agents of Change in Environmental Justice podcast to discuss the intersection of social and environmental stressors on children’s health. It had it was there that I met Karna Wong, and she's a faculty at Sonoma State University, and she absolutely changed my life. Laura Diaz I'm doing okay.

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Environmental Health News

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The absence of an international scientific body that evaluates available evidence, like the IPCC does for climate change or IPBES for biodiversity, has created a fragmented research landscape for chemical pollution. Additionally, those climate-fueled environmental changes can alter the toxicity of chemicals.

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Environmental Health News

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Its been five years since the Agents of Change in Environmental Justice program launched, and at a recent retreat gathering the leadership team reflected on what weve learned and what environmental issues were watching closely as we near 2025. Listen below to our discussion and subscribe to the podcast at iTunes or Spotify.

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Environmental Health News

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Amy Green reports for Inside Climate News. In short: The National Academies recommend deeper collaboration with Florida's Miccosukee and Seminole tribes in the $21 billion Everglades restoration project, emphasizing their role as environmental stewards.

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Environmental Health News

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Agents of Change in Environmental Justice Liliana Sierra Castillo on blue justice However, after listening to the voices of small-scale fishing communities in Mexico, Ive come to question the expansion of aquaculture and the Blue Economy as a whole.

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Environmental Health News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The report , published by Industrious Labs, an environmental advocacy organization focused on decarbonizing heavy industry, looked at pollution and health data to estimate the total, facility-level, and state-level costs of the 17 coal-based steelmaking plants that are still in operation across the U.S., billion in health costs.

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KFF Health News

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Goldman, who is also BMC’s medical director of climate and sustainability, said hospital screening questionnaires show thousands of patients like Polk struggle to pay their utility bills. ” This article is from a partnership that includes WBUR , NPR , and KFF Health News. Learn more about KFF.

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Environmental Health News

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In an interview, Morales Blanco, the daughter of a fisherman, details her fight to stop fracking in Puerto Wilches and nationwide, her struggles with mental health following years of persistent threats and violence, and the lack of recognition and institutional support available to environmental leaders. Our mindset changed.

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Environmental Health News

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Ufuoma Ovienmhada joins the Agents of Change in Environmental Justice podcast to discuss environmental injustice at prisons across the U.S. The Agents of Change in Environmental Justice podcast is a biweekly podcast featuring the stories and big ideas from past and present fellows, as well as others in the field.

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Frontiers

MARCH 23, 2023

Worldwide, human health is now better than ever before. However, all of these improvements in human health have come at a cost: the planet’s health. Most of these health improvements started in the Anthropocene — a geological epoch defined by human influence.

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Frontiers

JULY 5, 2023

Open access publisher Frontiers is participating in the One Sustainable Health for All Forum 2023 co-organized by the One Sustainable Health for All Foundation and the French Development Agency (AFD). COVID-19 highlighted the challenges of interconnected systems for health, which integrate health, food, water, energy, and ecosystems.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

DECEMBER 16, 2024

This population, like many agricultural workers in hot climates, is at increased risk of chronic kidney disease of unknown cause. Mortality has doubled over the past 20 years, sparking a public health exploration into the epidemic. Youre going to hear more about it, public health researcher Lee Newman, M.D.,

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Association of Health Care Journalists

OCTOBER 22, 2024

That’s more of a spot check, as Lisa Gill , a health and medicine investigative reporter at Consumer Reports, told me. That’s not because it would harm the companies named — it’s because it could distract from the larger public health issue that might (emphasis on “might”) exist here and the need for further research to find out. “It

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HEALTHBEAT

AUGUST 8, 2024

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free New York City newsletter here. The New York City Health Department has identified West Nile virus in mosquitoes throughout the city, and there’s growing concern about cases of dengue, another mosquito-borne disease, among travelers returning to New York.

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Environmental Health News

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Dan Gearino reports for Inside Climate News. Rooftop solar adoption in the U.S. is expanding beyond wealthier households, with more middle- and low-income families benefiting from this renewable energy source. In short: The median household income for new rooftop solar users dropped to $115,000 in 2023, down from $141,000 in 2010.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

It’s a genre of medical study-based story all too familiar to health/science journalists: “a new study found X chemical in [common household product or food],” — the “scare” story that launches a thousand sensationalist headlines. Distinguish between public health and individual health. Others involve a bit of both.

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NC Health News

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Sharp, a Wayne County resident for the past decade, is a trained nurse with a passion for community and public health. “There was a real interest from both the farmworkers and the growers in wanting to know more about CPR,” Sharp told NC Health News in a recent interview. Juan Allen is amazing,” Sharp said Sept.

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HEALTHBEAT

AUGUST 19, 2024

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free national newsletter here. The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene reported the year’s first human cases of West Nile virus, in four city residents, on Monday. Eliza Fawcett is a reporter covering public health in New York City for Healthbeat.

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Environmental Health News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

This change addresses longstanding legal obstacles that held volunteers responsible for pre-existing pollution, despite their lack of involvement in the original contamination. Abandoned mines have polluted about 40% of Western rivers and streams, with cleanup costs estimated at $50 billion.

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Environmental Health News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Kristoffer Tigue reports for Inside Climate News. A recent Enbridge oil spill in Wisconsin has intensified concerns about the safety of the companys Line 5 pipeline project, despite state assurances of minimal risk. The spill occurred just days before state officials approved permits for the controversial Line 5 project.

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Environmental Health News

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Agents of Change in Environmental Justice · Mokshda Kaul on making the clean energy transition work for all Esta polémica relación ha definido la transición energética. Este ensayo ha sido elaborado gracias a la beca Agents of Change in Environmental Justice. Sin embargo, hay otra forma de mirar las cosas.

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Environmental Health News

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Este ensayo ha sido elaborado gracias a la beca Agents of Change in Environmental Justice. Agents of Change capacita a líderes emergentes de entornos históricamente excluidos de la ciencia y el mundo académico que reimaginan soluciones para un planeta justo y saludable.

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Environmental Health News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

The expansion of federal housing policy initiatives that Vice President Kamala Harris proposed in August — looking to increase the number of housing units on the market and make more units affordable — is actually a climate change adaptation policy. Even more alarming, evictions increase following climate-related disasters.

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Environmental Health News

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Compounds released in these events can range from climate-warming methane to volatile organic compounds that increase cancer risks, like benzene or 1-3 butadiene. In addition to climate related concerns, recent studies have documented flares’ health impacts. billion in health risks and 710 premature deaths annually in the U.S.

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Environmental Health News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Producción y edición de video: Jimmy Evans Sobre las autoras: Kristina Marusic cubre temas de salud ambiental y justicia en Pittsburgh y el occidente de Pennsylvania para Environmental Health News. Cami Ferrell es una reportera de vídeo bilingüe para Environmental Health News, radicada en Houston (Texas).

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Gideon

MARCH 18, 2021

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KFF Health News

OCTOBER 31, 2024

” Tucked in a $10 billion climate bond on the November ballot is an earmark to improve drinking water quality for communities such as East Orosi. And climate change is eroding people’s access to clean water, she said. billion in climate cuts Newsom and lawmakers enacted in 2023. The reductions followed $3.1

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Environmental Health News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Mokshda Kaul joins the Agents of Change in Environmental Justice podcast to discuss the clean energy transition and how policymakers and other leaders can avoid mistakes of the past. Nothing changed in my life, honestly speaking. Kaul, a Ph.D. Kaul, a Ph.D. You can see all of the past episodes here. And that's how I see econ.

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HEALTHBEAT

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free national newsletter here. Tucked in a $10 billion climate bond on Tuesday’s ballot is an earmark to improve drinking water quality for communities such as East Orosi. And climate change is eroding people’s access to clean water, she said.

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Environmental Health News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The report, published by Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN), analyzed existing research about fossil fuel extraction and related facilities to explore the unequal impacts on women of color in North America. WECAN identified nine regions that appeared most frequently, including the Gulf Coast, to focus additional research.

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Environmental Health News

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Pradnya Garud joins the Agents of Change in Environmental Justice podcast to discuss the role of unions in climate and environmental justice. The Agents of Change in Environmental Justice podcast is a biweekly podcast featuring the stories and big ideas from past and present fellows, as well as others in the field.

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BU School of Public Health Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2024

For more than a decade, researchers for Pregnancy Study Online (PRESTO) at the School of Public Health have uncovered lifestyle, environmental, and medical factors that may affect fertility and pregnancy outcomes. As climate change worsens, PRESTO researchers are also analyzing how the environment affects reproductive health.

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Environmental Health News

DECEMBER 6, 2024

During previous plastic treaty talks, environmental justice and Indigenous delegations were permitted to listen and speak during negotiations between member states. That changed at this meeting, as the last several days of the talks consisted of private conversations. The elephant in the room is how the U.S. In the U.S.,

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Environmental Health News

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Online influencers are driving climate denial worldwide, complicating efforts to curb global warming. Kiley Price reports for Inside Climate News. In short: A Global Witness report found climate misinformation on TikTok proliferated during COP29, with comments denying climate change left largely unchecked.

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Environmental Health News

DECEMBER 16, 2024

President Joe Biden is pushing for an international agreement to end export credit funding for oil and gas projects, potentially locking in a climate policy that would be difficult for a Trump administration to reverse. Jake Bittle reports for Grist. Key quote: The fact that the OECD would have a unified position on this, which the U.S.

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Environmental Health News

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Meanwhile, environmental groups are accused of being divorced from working-class realities, sometimes neglecting lost employment and wages related to the energy transition. The heavy layer of pollution killed 20 people and caused long-term health effects for at least 5,900 people. To read a version of this story in Spanish click here.

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NC Health News

DECEMBER 1, 2024

The landscape along the creeks and mountainsides has been forever changed. Everyone has had to adjust to these changes and more, even as they’ve dealt with similar problems at home. The post Rural water utilities in North Carolina are still reeling from Helene appeared first on North Carolina Health News.

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