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Today is my daughter's birthday. She's 14, a young teenager beginning to make her way into the world.
So it’s with a swirl of emotion that I watch the battle unfold on Capitol Hill, where a phalanx of politicians is seeking to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gases.
Politicians pushing to strip the EPA of its authority to regulate greenhouse gases called Jackson’s statement a positive signal.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska applauded what she perceived as a backing away from EPA’s determination to regulate greenhouse gases under the "endangerment finding" the EPA reached last spring.
That finding, based on an extensive review of the science and on hundreds of thousands of public comments, concluded that greenhouse gases do indeed pose a threat to human health and well-being. PSR’s executive director Peter Wilk, M.D. provided comments on the proposed finding last May.
Sen Murkowski is a prominent advocate for stripping the EPA of its power to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and has introduced a resolution to that effect. PSR has joined with other national health organizations to send a letter to the U.S. Senate opposing Murkowski's resolution.
As a member of PSR's staff, I'm dismayed to see the number of politicians willing to discard the scientific evidence that human activity, especially the burning of fossil fuels, is causing climate change.
As a mother, I am heartbroken and horrified to watch as politicians from coal and oil states threaten our children’s world with catastrophic climate chaos.
Climate change’s threats to human health and life are growing. Will you join our latest effort to roll back climate change?
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Video: Extreme Weather: Impacts on Public Health
Video of the first in a series of climate change webinars from PSR. Hear the health impacts of climate change and learn how to write a letter to the editor on climate change. Read more »
Climate Change and Famine
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Hope for a Heated Planet
Author Bob Musil, former PSR executive director and now scholar-in-residence at American University, has written an insightful and informative account about the climate change issue and how it has finally emerged in the public’s mind as a major public health concern. Read more »
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