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Electric Vehicles and Clean Energy Will Deliver $1.2 Trillion in …
WEBThe public health impacts of dirty transportation and electricity generation translate directly into tangible benefits, benefits that we can realize by switching to clean energy and electric vehicles. We have the necessary technologies to make this switch, and doing so makes economic sense. In fact, we are passing up a huge economic …
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COAL ASH FACT SHEET: TVA Kingston Health Impacts
WEBTVA Kingston Health Impacts Dean Alford Dwight Brown The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a proposed rule in July of 2010 to regulate coal ash, the toxic waste left behind after coal is burned for energy. The ash is made up of chemicals and metals like lead, mercury and arsenic and is a risk to human health and the environment. EPA’s
Breathing Easier: New Soot Rules Will Benefit Asthma Sufferers in …
WEBSoot, also known as PM2.5, has long posed a serious threat to public health, in particular to the tens of millions of Americans with asthma. These strengthened standards, imperative for the well-being of all communities, carry specific weight for those of us in the Southeast, where unique environmental challenges often intensify and …
Ash In Lungs: How Breathing Coal Ash is Hazardous to Your Health
WEBToday, Physicians for Social Responsibility and Earthjustice released a new report on the harm to public health from breathing toxic coal ash titled Ash in Lungs: How Breathing Coal Ash is Hazardous to your Health. In communities across the nation, airborne dust from thousands of coal ash lagoons, landfills, minefills and reuse projects
Connections Between Climate Change and Health
WEBWithout immediate adaption and mitigation efforts to curb carbon emissions from fossil fuel plants and energy waste, we are only putting our health and the health of future generations at greater risk. On November 10, the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy and Florida Climate Voices hosted a crucial discussion on climate change and health.
The climate crisis is a health crisis
WEBThis guest blog, written by Dr. Neha Pathak, originally ran on the Hill on September 7, 2021. Dr. Neha Pathak is a physician and medical writer, who reports on the health impacts of climate change. She is also a public voices fellow on the climate crisis with The OpEd Project and The Yale Program on Climate Change Communication.
Webinar: Climate Change and Your Health
WEBClimate change is driving extremes in weather and temperature, increased pollution and environmental toxins, and changes in food security and infectious diseases, which have all been proven to contribute to health problems. Increased global warming is leading to longer allergy seasons and more respiratory diseases, including COVID-19.
Electrifying school buses will benefit local economy and children’s …
WEBHealth benefits aren’t the only ones Georgians will see from converting school bus fleets. Macon-based Blue Bird Corp. is an industry innovator creating hundreds of new jobs producing electric buses. In addition to jobs and investments in our communities, school district budgets will ultimately benefit from electric school buses’ …
Citizens take charge of their health, test for toxic mercury
WEBLike many of the health issues that local groups screened for at the fair, illnesses caused by coal pollution disproportionately plague low-income communities and communities of color. Mercury, a potent neurotoxin emitted by coal plants, can cause a variety of health problems, from learning disorders to a lack of muscular coordination. If …
Coal Ash Fact Sheet: TVA Kingston Health Assessments …
WEBHuman Health Assessments A number of organizations have reported on the environmental and health effects of the 2008 Kingston coal ash disaster. It is important to understand the questions these reports ask and the methods they use. Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) released Baseline Medical Screening Results (BMSR) …
New Report Shows Growing Consensus on Benefits of 80% Clean …
WEBA new report by Energy Innovation finds that there is a growing consensus among expert researchers that achieving 80% clean electricity by 2030 would be feasible, affordable, reliable, and deeply beneficial to the economy and public health.. The analysis examines 11 recent reports by universities, think tanks, nonprofits, and energy …
Green Cars for Kids: Driving Children to Better Health with Electric
WEBThis blog post was co-written with Dr. Catherine Toms, MD, MPH, who is the Director at Green Cars for Kids. Dr. Toms is also on the Steering Committee at Florida Clinicians for Climate Action.. Green Cars for Kids is a non-profit organization that provides free transportation for children and expectant mothers who have limited or no access to …
New Soot Pollution Standards Are a Positive Step Toward …
WEBToday, the Biden administration published final rules that lower the limit of soot pollution allowed in the air. Soot, also known as fine particulate matter or PM2.5, is a harmful air pollutant that causes numerous health effects in people, including heart disease, aggravated asthma, decreased lung function, difficulty breathing, and early death.
On the 50th Earth Day: Lessons Learned from COVID-19 Can Help …
WEBCOVID-19 clearly demonstrates how public health policy decisions in China can irreversibly and immediately impact the US and the world, in the same way, carbon emissions from India will impact the climate in Africa, and plastic thrown in the South Pacific Ocean may wash a world ashore away. Natural laws (basic chemistry, biology, and …
Save Money, Stay Healthy: What to Expect From a Home Energy …
WEBIn monetizing the homeowners’ health benefits, it was found that they provided three to five times greater savings than energy savings. Take for example a family of five with an asthmatic child who triggers once a month due to air leaks in the house. If they have to spend the whole day in the ER, researchers estimate that on average they
Oh Say Can You See
WEBAs we look forward to new, health-based air pollution regulations on the horizon, we are likely to see continued improvement in air quality in and around the Smokies. Of the 48 national parks studied by NPCA, 36 experienced either “moderate” or worse ozone pollution according to the Air Quality Index developed and maintained by …
National Climate Assessment Signals Big Impacts for Southeast
WEBA 2016 scientific assessment of climate change impacts to human health in the U.S. found that climate change is very likely to increase the number of premature heat-related deaths by thousands or tens of thousands each summer by the end of the century. Temperature increases will occur region wide, but will be particularly felt in urban areas
Could a carrot and stick approach motivate utilities to decarbonize
WEBA new study clarifies the tremendous health benefits of implementing a clean energy standard by preventing hundreds of thousands of premature deaths and delivering well over a trillion dollars’ worth of health and climate benefits between now and 2050. Clean Electricity Standards: Proven, Popular, and Possible
Electrifying Transportation: A Holistic Approach
WEBReducing VMT is also a public health goal. According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, Decreasing annual VMT per capita can directly improve air quality and the overall health of a population. And because significant transportation corridors often run through and disproportionally impact economically disadvantaged …
Spotlight Shines on Extreme Energy Burdens in Memphis
WEBMost recently, SACE has been involved in conversations around securing funding through the Strong Prosperous and Resilient Communities Challenge initiative that could help address health, racial equity and climate resilience through home weatherization improvements in the North Memphis area. SACE staff continue to engage with both …
It Takes a Village: Memphians in the Fight Against Energy Burden
WEBMaster Home Environmentalist Program Intern Ethan Nichols and Sharon Hyde at GHHI. Since the beginning of June, we have been joining our partners, Sharon Hyde at the Green Health Homes Initiative (GHHI) and Cathy Marcinko at Le Bonheur Community Health and Wellbeing, on a collaborative project called the Master Home …
In 2023, Electric Vehicles Were Everywhere
WEBInitiating ACT rulemaking was a big deal because electrifying medium- and heavy-duty vehicles will deliver significant economic, public health, and climate benefits to North Carolina and its citizens. ACT rulemaking garnered support from a wide range of businesses based or operating in North Carolina and a broad coalition of advocates.
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