Robert Byron, a Montana internist and ACP member, writes about a price on carbon as a policy solution.
Press Coverage
How to write an LTE
A simple guide to writing an effective letter to the editor. (Provided by Physicians for Social Responsibility)
Our Children Need Clean Car Standards to Protect Their Health
Op-Ed published in the Morning Consult by Dr. Timothy O’Mara, a pediatrician in northern Virginia.
Action Alert: Climate Change is Affecting Health Now
On October 8, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a special report detailing the impact of global warming of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. It finds that impacts are already occurring and that 2°C is no longer a safe goal to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. We can avoid much, but not all, of the loss and risk of climate change by limiting warming to 1.5°C. But without a radical transformation of energy, transportation and agriculture systems, the world will blow past the 1.5°C target. Here is some background info on the report:
Opinion: Climate change challenges can affect mental health
Dr. William Hardie, a pediatric pulmonologist, and Dr. Dan Sullivan, a primary care internist, write an important and informative counter-op-ed regarding climate change and mental illness.
Health impacts of carbon pollution and climate change
By: Lisa Abrahime, RN, MSN, OCN, an Oncology nurse, and Joanne Leovy, M.D., a family physician.
The Replacement Power Plan
Key Points and Resources Resources to Help You: Health professionals across the country need to take advantage of every opportunity for their voices to heard about how the proposed EPA roll-back of the Clean Power Plan would harm the health of people in their...
Climate change is a health issue
Op-Ed by Dr. Cynthia Mahoney.
Talking Points on EPA Plans to Roll Back Clean Car Standards and Attack States’ Authority
The clean car standards are the most effective policy we have on the books to fight climate change. The transportation sector is now the country’s largest source of the carbon pollution that causes climate change; cars, SUVs, and pickup trucks are the largest source...