This brief essay reveals a key insight into how to Make America Healthy Again— by making our environment (air, water, soil, food, energy, buildings, cities, etc) healthy again. @docsforclimate.bsky.social @apha.org @psr.org @howardfrumkin.bsky.social @jonathanpatz.bsky.social

Hidden in Plain Sight

How We Overlooked One of the Leading Drivers of Heart Disease

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We are physicians in Washington state. We have seen the impacts of climate change and air pollution on our patients. Trump is abdicating his responsibility to protect people from the dangers of climate change. @markvmd.bsky.social @howardfrumkin.bsky.social www.seattletimes.com/opinion/repe...

Repeal of EPA 'endangerment finding' endangers human health | Op-Ed

Climate change is happening, it is human-caused and it is damaging human health, two doctors write.

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Boffo op-Ed by my medical colleague @ashleymcclure.bsky.social on how to protect human and planetary health. @docsforclimate.bsky.social @gchalliance.bsky.social @psr.org @apha.org @howardfrumkin.bsky.social @jonathanpatz.bsky.social @climate4health.bsky.social @bfrist.bsky.social

Opinion | Protecting California’s public lands from oil and gas drilling is defending public health

Federal plans for oil drilling along a million acres in California would change healthful, wild spaces into sources of pollution and illness.

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The sooner we stop denying the impact of #climatechange on our health, the healthier we will be. Want to make America healthy again? Stop fueling climate change theconversation.com/want-to-make... by @jonlevybu.bsky.social @jonathanpatz.bsky.social @howardfrumkin.bsky.social @us.theconversation.com

Want to make America healthy again? Stop fueling climate change

From extreme heat to mosquito-borne illnesses, climate change is making people sicker and more vulnerable to disease. Health scientists explain what individuals and governments can do about it.

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Amen! Climate and health strategies must address the biodiversity crisis. This insight is a key driver behind the planetaryhealthalliance.org movement. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social @cwalzer.bsky.social @statnews.com @nationalacademies.org @howardfrumkin.bsky.social

Climate and health strategies must address the biodiversity crisis

Safeguarding biodiversity is not simply an environmental concern but a foundational element of preventive and clinical care.

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This impressive and sobering analysis documents (conservatively) the dreadful human impacts of rolling back environmental regulations. Congratulations to the AP team. Speak up for protecting our health and our environment! apnews.com/article/epa-...

Trump EPA rollbacks would weaken rules projected to save billions of dollars and thousands of lives

When the head of the Environmental Protection Agency earlier this year announced a massive rollback of environmental regulations, he said it would spark a “Golden Age” for the American economy.

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The Stockholm Declaration on Chemistry for the Future, released 10 days ago, now has almost 1000 signers. It's a visionary call for a "new chemistry for sustainability" that will protect people, prosperity, and the planet. I signed. Will you? www.stockholm-declaration.org

Beautiful essay by @dralicechen.bsky.social and @drvivekmurthy.bsky.social. "Societies ... require people who are willing to speak up boldly and unapologetically for the dignity and well-being of others. Physicians have the power to be these people." www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

The Power of Physicians in Dangerous Times | NEJM

The current crisis in the United States is bigger than politics, and it deeply affects the health and lives of our patients and communities. Now is the time for physicians to harness their power an...

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This report documents further devastation of climate and health research at NIH. Among other responses, we need to be planning to restart such critical research once this madness ends--as it will. @docsforclimate.bsky.social @ecoamerica.bsky.social @apha.org www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Exclusive: documents reveal how NIH will axe climate studies

US agency guidelines nix funding for studies on climate anxiety and more but allow it for those on extreme weather and health.

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Glad to share this short paper, just published, describing work at the National Academy of Medicine to promote broad system change (beyond the health sector) to confront climate change. @thirdactorg.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com @maibached.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Charting a path to health for all at net-zero emissions

Climate change is the defining health challenge of the 21st century, with record-breaking temperatures and extreme weather events already exacting an unprecedented toll on human health and wellbeing. ...

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What did scientists (who care deeply about leaving a livable world to our children & grandchildren) do when a cheap political stunt derailed their efforts to help? They built a workaround. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/o... @howardfrumkin.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com @mason4c.bsky.social

Opinion | We Found a Work Around to Trump Defunding Science

When knowledge is threatened, don’t just mourn it. Build around it.

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Compelling article making the scientific case for legal liability of major fossil fuel companies. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Carbon majors and the scientific case for climate liability - Nature

A transparent and reproducible scientific framework is introduced to formalize how trillions in economic losses are attributable to the extreme heat caused by emissions from fossil fuel companies, whi...

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What a treat to hear the great Rita Colwell recount the story of Vibrio, human health, and climate here at UW School of Public Health.

I never imagined a world in which, when an HHS Secretary states that vaccines are the most effective way to prevent measles, it counts as news. A bit like NASA confirming the theory of gravity. www.statnews.com/2025/04/06/r...

Looking forward to joining Hannah Murphy Winter of @thestranger.com, Mickey Fearn, Ashley Townes, and Joycelyn Chui for a wonderful Earth Day event at @townhallseattle.bsky.social. We'll be talking about climate equity, park equity, health equity, and the connections among them.

An incisive commentary about a gut-wrenching moment in US history. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

It Was an Ambush

Today marked one of the grimmest days in the history of American diplomacy.

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Our latest survey finds that Americans are becoming increasingly aware that climate change harms people's health. Check out our full report: www.climatechangecommunication.org/all/climate-... @docsforclimate.bsky.social @lisapatel.bsky.social @howardfrumkin.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com

Climate Change in the American Mind: Public Perceptions of the Health Harms of Global Warming, Fall 2024 - Center for Climate Change Communication

Report Summary This report is based on findings from a nationally representative survey – Climate Change in the American Mind – conducted jointly by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication an...

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Shutting down existing EV charging hardware, which has already been paid for, is the definition of government waste. But I don't hear DOGE doing anything about this… 🙄 electrek.co/2025/02/21/t...

Trump to shut down all 8,000 EV charging ports at federal govt buildings

The Trump administration is shutting down all federal government buildings' EV chargers and expected to sell off the GSA's newly bought EVs.

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Had the honor and pleasure of coffee with the phenomenal @govjayinslee.bsky.social today. We talked about standing with science, communicating the climate crisis, resisting the abuses and lies of the administration. Then we both biked home! @docsforclimate.bsky.social @thirdactorg.bsky.social

Wow. The PubMed site is down. Is this just a temporary glitch or have they killed it too?

When @govjayinslee.bsky.social lends his support, you know you're doing something right!

Governor Jay Inslee@govjayinslee.bsky.social · 2y ago

In the best tradition of Copernicus and Galileo, our courageous scientists are enlightening the public about our environment, undaunted by Trump’s attempted suppression. Courage is contagious. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

As I shared last week, the US's first National Nature Assessment has been shut down: but the authors, led by @phillevin.bsky.social, are determined to continue. Read more: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/c...

Trump Killed a Major Report on Nature. They’re Trying to Publish It Anyway. (Gift Article)

The first full draft of the assessment, on the state of America’s land, water and wildlife, was weeks from completion. The project leader called the study “too important to die.”

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