January 2, 2020 – Today, hundreds of thousands of doctors, nurses and other health professionals are urging President Trump to reverse his withdrawal of the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement. In a letter, the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health, comprised of medical societies representing more than 600,000 of the nation’s doctors, […]
Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health
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Dr. Mona Sarfaty: Proposed EPA rule would undo a 2015 limit on emission of greenhouse gases from fossil fuel power plants
Feb. 14, 2019 – Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (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 fuel-fired power plants. The proposed rule would change a 2015 limit on emission of greenhouse gases emitted from fossil fuel power […]
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Medical Societies Respond to National Climate Assessment
Nov. 23, 2018 – 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 is produced by 13 federal agencies comprising the US Global Change Research Program. This statement can be attributed to Dr. Mona Sarfaty, the Director of the Medical […]
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Physicians: Climate Change Is Harming Our Health
March 16, 2017 – Most Americans understand that climate change is real and are concerned about it. But most still see climate change as a faraway threat, in both time and place, and as something that threatens the future of polar bears but not necessarily people. The reality, however, is starkly different: climate change is […]