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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.

Statement: American Heart Association Joins the Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health

June 7, 2019 – The American Heart Association announced it has joined 54 other health organizations and medical societies in the Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health.

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Read the about the latest climate & health news, important Consortium updates, and our Champion of the Month!

Video: Future of Food – Kathleen Merrigan and Rajiv Shah

Watch this video of Kathleen Merrigan, and Rajiv Shah, as they discuss the challenge to end hunger and promote sustainable agriculture.

Statement on the EPA’s proposed amendments to the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) for Power Plants

This rulemaking will take final action on two of the three distinct actions included in EPA's February 7, 2019 proposal (84 FR 2670) regarding the National Emission Standards for Hazardous....

Consortium 2018 Annual Report

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Statement: Medical Societies respond to proposed revision to Clean Air Act

February 14, 2019 - The EPA is holding a hearing on a proposed revision to a rule under the Clean Air Act to limit greenhouse gas emissions from new fossil....

Statement: Infectious Diseases Society of America Joins Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health

February 5, 2019 - The Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health (Consortium) announced today that the Infectious Diseases Society of America has signed on to the Consortium of 23....

Press Release: Hospitals urge EPA to maintain standards on mercury and other toxic pollution

The 17 U.S. health systems of HCWH are urging the EPA to protect public health by upholding strong limits on mercury and other toxic pollutants emitted from coal-fired power plants.

Statement: Medical Societies Respond to National Climate Assessment

On November 23, the Trump Administration today released the 4th National Climate Assessment, a Congressionally-mandated report on the impacts of climate change in the US. The report reaffirms what our....