VIDEO: Mobilizing Action for Climate, Health, and Equity
Health leaders from around the country working at the forefront of climate solutions bring to life the 10 points in the U.S. Call to Action on Climate, Health, and Equity:....
Response of the Health Community to the announced Rollback of the ‘Clean Cars’ Standards
By design, the proposed standards would increase fossil fuels burned and harmful pollution emitted into the atmosphere. Read the full statement and an additional letter from the AAFP.
Statement on the proposed policy to narrow the scope of the National Environmental Policy Act
The Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health opposes the current proposal to update The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).
An Open Letter to President Trump
Join with the Consortium, to ask the President to protect Americans’ health, safety and wellbeing by stopping the withdrawal from the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. Sign the letter...
Video by APA: Majority of US Adults Believe Climate Change Is Most Important Issue Today
Nearly half of 18-34-year-olds say that stress about climate change affects their lives. Watch this video, by the American Psychological Association.
Statement on the EPA’s proposed amendments to the 2012 and 2016 NSPS for the Oil and Natural Gas Industry
This proposal would do away with the requirements that oil and gas companies install technology to detect and fix methane leaks from wells, pipelines, and storage facilities.
Video Interview with David Wallace Wells: Climate Change & Our Health
Author David Wallace-Wells' interview on 24 Hours of Reality: Protect Our Planet, Protect Ourselves, where he spoke with Rolling Stone journalist Jamil Smith about the health impacts of the climate....
The 2019 Report of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change
An unprecedented challenge demands an unprecedented response. This 2019 Report tracks the relationship between health and climate change across five key domains and 41 indicators.
JAMA Calls for Climate & Health Papers
As a global open-access health journal, JAMA Network Open is issuing a call for papers on the health outcomes and risks associated with climate change.
Letters to Representatives on Extreme Heat and Protecting Workers from Heat Exposure
Climate change is causing an increase in the number of days of extreme heat and putting many U.S. lives at risk. Read letters from the Consortium sent to Representative Chu....
Statement on the EPA’s Decision to Revoke California’s Authority to Limit Auto Emissions
The EPA's proposed Clean Air Act revision will weaken policies that improve air quality and harm our health by increasing the pollution we breathe. Doctors are speaking out because reducing....
Video: Extreme Heat and Health
This video shares the stories of a heat educator and a pediatrician in North Carolina who have been dealing with the health impacts of increasingly extreme heat. It also talks....
How climate change threatens public health
From prolonged droughts to dangerous sun exposures, the weather affects human health in numerous ways, and climate change has already ratcheted environmental health threats up a notch. Disease-carrying bugs have....
IPCC Report: Climate Change and Land
An IPCC Special Report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems.
Medical Schools Are Pushed to Train Doctors for Climate Change
More doctors, health organizations and students are pushing for medical education to include climate change, saying that physicians and other health-care workers need to prepare for the risks associated with....
Forces of nature: Doctors linking environment, climate change to health issues
A growing number of physicians are keen to discuss their concerns about climate change and environmental factors impacting people’s health.
Underwater Climate Rally
The Underwater Climate Rally & March, was held on June 27, 2019, at the Freedom Tower, Miami Florida. Two murals were unveiled, which depict how dirty energy pollution is bad....
Medical Groups Announce Policy Agenda and Call to Action on the Climate Health Emergency
More than 180 Health and Medical Groups call climate change a true public health emergency and urge policymakers to take action now...
Climate change is a ‘health emergency’ 74 medical and public health groups warn
June 24, 2019 – Climate change isn't just a threat to the environment, it's a threat to "our health and well-being," experts say.
Statement on the Environmental Protection Agency’s Affordable Clean Energy Rule
June 19, 2019 – The Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health responds to EPA’s Affordable Clean Energy rule.