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New Article in the Journal of Environmental Health, “Staying Cool in a Changing Climate: Caring for Health in Extreme Heat”

Climate for Health

ecoAmerica’s column in the National Environmental Health Association’s Journal of Environmental Health, “Staying Cool in a Changing Climate: Caring for Health in Extreme Heat” by Nicole Hill, MPH, and Ben Fulgencio-Turner, MPP, CPH is now available in the July/August 2023 issue.

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Scientist journalist and editor Katie Burke joins AHCJ as new environmental health beat leader

Association of Health Care Journalists

Katie Burke, a science journalist and editor based in Virginia, has joined AHCJ as the new environmental health beat leader. “This is such an important subject, and Katie’s going to be a great guide for the increasing number of health care journalists reporting on the implications of climate change in particular.”

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Watch an environmental health professor explain wastewater woes

Berkeley Public Health

What happens to human and animal waste once it's flushed away? UC Berkeley professor Jay Graham says the answer is more important than you may think.

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Join Us: National Health + Climate Forum

Climate for Health

ecoAmerica’s column in the National Environmental Health Association’s Journal of Environmental Health, “Staying Cool in a Changing Climate: Caring for Health in Extreme Heat” by Nicole Hill, MPH, and Ben Fulgencio-Turner, MPP, CPH is now available in the July/August 2023 issue.

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Local health departments use NC ENVIROSCAN to incorporate environmental health data into community health needs assessments

UNC Epidemiology Blog

A new collaboration between UNC SRP and North Carolina county health departments will help counties more easily incorporate environmental health and environmental justice perspectives into their community health needs assessments. The full toolkit will be released this fall.

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Stricter toxic chemical rules reduce Californians’ exposures

Environmental Health News

NHANES isn’t designed to detect changes in chemical exposures driven by local or state-level policy,” study co-author Meg Schwarzman, a physician and environmental health scientist at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, said in a statement.

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Environmental justice communities in southwestern Pennsylvania face higher rates of pollution violations

Environmental Health News

The research , conducted by researchers at Chatham University and Three Rivers Waterkeeper, a nonprofit clean water advocacy group, focused on Clairton and Homewood two neighborhoods identified as environmental justice communities by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).