Statements
CONSORTIUM STATEMENTS
COMMUNITY STATEMENTS
In this letter to Congress, thousands of doctors, nurses and healthcare providers are urging lawmakers to consider the existing and predicted health harms from climate change in any future legislation that addresses health and economic impacts of COVID-19.
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.
The Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health opposes the current proposal to update The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).
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...
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.
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 and Representative Grijalva on the problem of heat exposure of workers on the job.
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 auto emissions is a key solution for improving our health today and in the long-term.
June 19, 2019 – The Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health responds to EPA’s Affordable Clean Energy rule.
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 Air Pollutants: Coal- and Oil-Fired Electric Utility Steam Generating Units (commonly referred to as the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS).
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 fuel-fired power plants.
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 major medical societies declaring climate change a threat to health.
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 physician members are seeing in all parts of the country.
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