The Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health
@docsforclimate.bsky.social
We mobilize the health voice for equitable climate solutions. Housed at the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication.
🎧 Weekend listening! On Monday, SCOTUS heard oral arguments in Suncor v. Boulder. Tune in to our latest #HealthyClimateAmerica episode to learn more about the case and what it could mean for Big Oil accountability. Listen here: bit.ly/HealthyClimateAmerica @climateintegrity.org
How is climate change influencing #HurricaneIsaias? Human-caused climate change made the record-warm Gulf waters fueling Isaias up to 600x more likely, and waters where it formed up to 800x more likely. @climatecentral.org #BigOilAccountability now.
Climate change supercharged the warm Gulf waters fueling Hurricane Isaias | Climate Central
Isaias is moving over exceptionally warm Gulf of Mexico waters and is forecast to make landfall on the Gulf Coast between Alabama and Florida late Friday, October 9.
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Today is Children’s Environmental Health Day! All children deserve clean air, clean water, safer food and products, and healthy places in which to live, learn, and play. Make your voice heard today in support of these basic rights for children. Visit cehday.org #CEHday
Warmer oceans Contribute to an increased fraction of tropical cyclones that strengthen quickly...aka rapid intensification. From 1980 to 2025, 190 Atlantic tropical cyclones rapidly intensified, and nearly one-quarter of these storms rapidly intensified at extreme rates.
Shel Winkley@shelwinkleywx.bsky.social · 5d ago#Isaias has officially reached hurricane status
Federal agencies are required to seek public comment when writing regulations or approving large projects. The Trump administration is systematically undercutting that process, stifling public input on environmental decisions, writes Jody Freeman.
How the U.S. Public Lost Its Say on Environmental Policy
Federal agencies have long been required to seek public comment when writing new regulations or approving large projects, from highways to data centers. The Trump administration is systematically undercutting that process, stifling public input while skirting federal laws.
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Join us on Friday for our next Climate & Health Equity webinar! Dr. Marcos Moreno will examine how culture, community connection, and traditional practices function not as supplements to care, but as forms of medicine in their own right. Register here: gmu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Lorraine Boissoneault calls it "body weather": the unpredictable shifts of chronic illness. In this episode of #HealthyClimateAmerica, she shares what that experience can teach us about living in a changing climate and caring for one another. bit.ly/HealthyClimateAmerica @lodrinkswater.bsky.social
Months after the Maui wildfires, residents were still finding high levels of heavy metals in their bodies. New research finds that might be harming their lungs. Our latest on the long aftermath of disasters, and how they impact human health: insideclimatenews.org/news/2909202...
Long After Wildfire Smoke Is Gone, Heavy Metals Could Still Be Harming Survivors’ Lungs - Inside Climate News
A new study from University of Hawai‘i researchers links metals found in the ash of the 2023 Maui wildfires with impaired lung function.
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Black Communities Face More Pollution as EPA Ends Power Plant Limits - Capital B News capitalbnews.org/trump-epa-po...
Trump Moves to Strip Pollution Limits from Power Plants Near Black Communities
The EPA says a repeal would lower electricity costs, though residential rates have risen sharply since Trump took office.
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Rolling back fuel economy standards for passenger cars and trucks will not "deliver relief to families," as the administration claims. It will cost us more at the pump and the doctor's office.
The Trump administration weakens fuel efficiency standards for new cars
The Trump administration says easing these standards will make cars more affordable. Critics say it's not so simple and could be costly for the environment.
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🚨 Action Alert 🚨 - The EPA is proposing to eliminate its authority to regulate climate pollution from fossil-fuel power plants. Help make sure the public record reflects why this is a major threat to our health. Learn how you can take action here ⬇️
Action Toolkit: Oppose EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions Supplemental Rule - The Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health (MSCCH)
It is important that as many voices as possible show up as part of the public record to provide our evidence-based expertise on why regulating climate pollution is a health issue.
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Call it a nor'easter...call it a coastal storm... whatever we call it, it will impact the Northeast through the weekend. Dangerous surf Coastal flooding Breaking waves 15ft+ 3" - 5" of rain Storm like this in late September? Not totally unusual. The water this storm is developing over, however...
"If the Supreme Court takes an aggressive stance in support of the oil industry, it will indicate something troubling about how the Supreme Court is thinking about its role in our constitutional system," said Chris Winter of the University of Colorado Law School.
A landmark Boulder climate case is heading to SCOTUS. What's at stake?
Can state courts decide who pays for damage from climate change? As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to consider the question, an environmental law expert
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Whether it’s ‘super’ or ‘Godzilla,’ El Niño is already breaking records
Whether it’s ‘super’ or ‘Godzilla,’ El Niño is already breaking records
In the coming months, the world will get a glimpse of life on an even hotter planet.
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Join us next week for the first session of our 2026 climate communications training series! Get updated guidance on how to speak more confidently and intentionally about climate change, health, and equity. Register here: medsocietiesforclimatehealth.org/event/commun...
It's Fall y'all! Unfortunately, ragweed season is also sticking around. Since 1970, warming has extended ragweed’s freeze-free growing season in 88% of 202 U.S. cities analyzed — by 11 days on average. 🍂More from #ClimateCentral: https://www.climatecentral.org/climate-matters/fall-allergy-season
September is National Disaster Preparedness Month, and it’s easier AND more effective to plan with your community. Don’t know where to start? Here’s your guide. Save and share with your neighbors so you all have a plan when disaster happens.
The stench of this fossil fueled corruption of justice can be smelled from sea to shining sea. @docsforclimate.bsky.social @coveringclimatenow.org @ucs.org
Judges overseeing Louisiana's landmark oil cases have financial stakes in defendants
Federal judges held stock, bonds and leased mineral rights to Exxon, Chevron and others while hearing cases against the companies alleging damage to the La. coast.
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“Families shouldn’t have to pay for the AI boom with their health.” @docsforclimate.bsky.social @gchalliance.bsky.social @apha.org @ameracadpeds.bsky.social @atscommunity.bsky.social @ucs.org @nrdc.org
Former EPA officials: Trump is letting data centers make people sick
“Families shouldn’t have to pay for the AI boom with their health.”
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Climate change is a growing threat to brain health, affecting neurological function, cognition, mental health, and neurodevelopment. Yet it's often overlooked. A powerful new report from the Neuro Climate Working Group examines the state of the science and how we can take action.
Our Brains on a Changing Planet
What the science now shows about how a changing planet reaches the brain, and the blind spot it leaves in climate policy.
report-2026.neuroclimate.org
🗣️ Our Climate Communications Training is back for another year! This four-part webinar series will provide practical strategies and tools to help you communicate with greater clarity, intention, and impact. Learn more and register here: medsocietiesforclimatehealth.org/event/commun...
Power plants are one of the largest sources of climate pollution. Tearing down these protections is a complete abandonment of the EPA's core responsibility, and our communities will pay the price.
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 4w agoThe Environmental Protection Agency is repealing rules that limit planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions from power plants fueled by coal and natural gas, an action the agency said would save industry more than $300 billion in costs and help “unleash” American energy.
Each additional day that schools aren’t given the support they need to modernize their bus fleets is one more day that children are subject to the threat of diesel exhaust. In a new op-ed, @lisapatel.bsky.social calls on state leaders to act and protect kids this school year.
Did California forget about its zero-emission school bus project? | Opinion
“Considering the state’s requirement for all school buses to be zero-emission by 2035, more sustained statewide support is needed.”
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🚨Heat sends thousands to the ER each year. How much does climate change contribute? New #ClimateCentral research finds that climate change accounted for about 1 in 4 heat-related emergency room visits in the U.S. during the warm season from 2018–2025. 🚑: www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt...
The City and County of Boulder, CO, are suing ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy to make them pay for their climate deception. Now the companies want to stop the case before it goes to trial. 🔊 Join us at the U.S. Supreme Court on 10/5 to support accountability and make our voices heard!
Join Us: Oct. 5 | The People v. Big Oil
Big Oil knew and lied. Now, they need to pay. Join us in Washington, D.C, to make our voices heard.
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Congratulations to @finejulia6.bsky.social, @joshettinger.bsky.social, Teresa Myers, Yuan Yue, Lisa Patel, John Kotcher, and @maibached.bsky.social on a new article in Environmental Research: Health, published with Verasight survey data. 1/9
🗓️ Save the date! The Our Planet, Our Health Convention is back for another year, and we're excited to make 2027 the best one yet. Get ready for new ways to engage and a connected climate and health experience in the Washington, DC, area. Stay tuned for more details. #OPOH27
The US just had its hottest summer in 132 years of recordkeeping, beating the summer of 1936 — during the Dust Bowl era — as well as the summer of 2021, according to data released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Previously, those two years had tied for the hottest summer.
The US just had its hottest summer on record, beating the Dust Bowl era | CNN
The US just had its hottest summer in 132 years of recordkeeping, soundly beating the summer of 1936 — during the Dust Bowl era — as well as the summer of 2021, according to new data released Wednesda...
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🌀 #HurricaneLowell brought torrential rainfall to Hawaii — and climate change helped make its Pacific environment unusually warm. Human-caused climate change made the unusually warm sea surface temperatures along Lowell’s path up to 60 times more likely.
This ruling comes as the Trump administration moves to weaken clean-water-related protections. "If we don’t protect our streams and wetlands, the cost of dirtier drinking water and increased flooding will flow downstream to households..."
You don't have a right to safe drinking water, US court rules
A Trump-appointed judge also said Americans have no “constitutional right to truthful information” during a public health crisis.
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