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.
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.
The Consortium issued this statement in response to the release of a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change titled “Global Warming of 1.5 degrees C,” which warned of the profound dangers to human and environmental health from the current trajectory of greenhouse gas emissions.
Our statement in response to the U.S. Briefing released by The Lancet journal as part of the global report, The Lancet Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health and Climate.
