This op-ed from CHEF Fellow, Dr. Nneoma Ojiaku discusses Sacramento’s need to improve & strengthen public health messaging around extreme heat.
Rx for Heatwaves: Sacramento Needs a Comprehensive Plan for Extreme Heat
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Press Coverage
Press Release: President Biden Signing the Inflation Reduction Act
The IRA has the potential to bring substantial benefits to the health of the U.S. population across the country, preventing nearly 4,000 deaths and 100,000 asthma attacks every year by 2030.
Opinion: Musk – Make Austin an Ecological Paradise
In an op-ed published in The Austin Chronicle, Climate and Health Equity Fellow Dr. Jessica Edwards calls on Tesla to lead the green charge in Austin.
Press Release and Open Letter to President Biden on poor rating of US NDC
The Consortium sends an open letter to the Biden Administration, in response to the low score on the Nationally Determined Contributions scorecard, emphasizing the need to take immediate and equitable action on climate change to protect health.
5 Ways Health Departments Can Help Ensure Healthy Voting
Here are five actions health departments can take to ensure healthy voting.
The Consortium in the News
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Public Service Commission should set ambitious energy saving goals for power companies
As physicians on the front line of public health, Drs. Cheryl Holder and Todd Sack know that energy efficiency reduces pollution, improves human health, and lowers energy costs.
Climate change is making us sicker
Dr. Homan Wai writes about the increasing health impacts, due to our warming and increasingly unstable climate. The time to act is now to protect our health!
The climate of American medicine
Dr. Sam Stea appeals to doctors, nurses, friends and peers, that now is the time we must acknowledge climate change as the grave health crisis it will most certainly become — if not today, then tomorrow.