Opinion: Keeping climate provisions in the budget reconciliation act is a key step toward protecting Americans’ health
Last week’s surprise agreement between Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer…
Category: environmental health
In Boston homes, potentially harmful compounds are leaking from stovetops
Natural gas — just by nature of being the most common residential energy source in…
Opinion: Health care has a carbon problem. Health tech can help fix it
As climate change threatens the health of the planet — and everyone living on it…
Opinion: FDA user fee legislation needs to mitigate the pharmaceutical industry’s carbon pollution
As Congress works to reauthorize for the seventh time pharmaceutical user fee legislation, it is…
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Opinion: HHS’s failure to address the health harms of climate crisis constitutes environmental and institutional racism
The 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination against recipients of federal funding, including those covered…
Opinion: Biden administration (finally) elevates healthy buildings as part of national Covid strategy
The White House announcement on Thursday that it is elevating “clean air in buildings” as…
Opinion: Hospitals need to get ahead of regulations on climate change
Climate change, an issue that hospital leaders should have voluntarily been working on following the…
Opinion: Health care workers don unnecessary protective gear. The CDC and WHO need to update their PPE guidance
Every time we enter a Covid patient’s room, we first don gloves, and a disposable…
Opinion: The National Academy of Medicine’s climate crisis effort must turn words into action
With little fanfare and even less notice, the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) recently launched…
Opinion: Listen: An organizer and a physician on how climate change will worsen maternal health inequities
The country is in a climate crisis. California is experiencing its second-largest fire, on the…
Opinion: A perfect storm: Climate disasters are magnifying the U.S.’s maternal health crisis
During every humanitarian disaster — whether it’s a war, a pandemic, or an extreme weather…
Opinion: The pandemic made clear who doesn’t get to breathe clean air. Now what?
The Covid-19 pandemic exposed deep-seated inequities in everything from safe working conditions and affordable health…
Opinion: Doctors pledge to do no harm. The entire health care sector should do the same by battling climate change
The alarming new report, “Climate Change 2021,” from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change…
Opinion: Public reporting: the first step in addressing the health care industry’s bloated carbon footprint
The health care industry focuses on healing. Yet its pursuit of that mission can cause…
Prenatal exposure to ultra-fine particles increases a child’s risk of asthma, study finds
When Rosalind Wright started analyzing data on prenatal exposure to air pollution in mothers and…
Opinion: To help solve climate change, look to the biosciences
President Biden’s pledge to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030 is an…
Opinion: Listen: Chelsea Clinton on fracking, oxygen shortages, and other public health crises
Chelsea Clinton joins the “First Opinion Podcast” this week to discuss her work in public…