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AUGUST 28, 2025

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Action Alerts: Endangerment Finding

  • Provide a written comment by September 22. Every unique public comment adds greater heft to our collective advocacy. Our advocates have submitted 79 comments so far—help us get to 200!
  • Ask your national or state-level clinician organization and/or health system to sign this joint letter to the EPA by September 17.

Latest News

Air pollution from oil and gas causes 90,000 premature US deaths each year, says new study

August 22, 2025 | The Guardian | Dharna Noor

The New American Inequality: The Cooled vs. the Cooked

August 20, 2025 | The New York Times| Jeff Goodell

As farmworkers face longer, hotter harvest seasons, their risk of heat-related illness grows

August 18, 2025 | WHYY | Bruce Gil

State News

Katrina Was Bigger Than a Hurricane

August 25, 2025 | The Progressive Magazine | Audrey L. Tanksley

In the wake of destructive floods, Wisconsin youth sue state utility regulator over failure to consider climate change

August 22, 2025 | Grist | Anita Hofschneider

Doulas on the front lines of Florida’s climate resilience

August 20, 2025 | Tampa Bay Times | Mireille Louis Charles and Sheena Mathai

What We're Listening To

Heart Over Head: Bridging the Partisan Divide on Climate

Healthy Climate America | Guest: Bob Inglis

New Research, Reports, and Resources

One Climate Event Away: Stories of Climate Change From the Frontlines of Health

 

This new report from the Consortium features stories from health professionals that demonstrate the different ways climate change harms health. It also provides solutions for decision-makers and communities to consider.

 

READ THE REPORT

Association of early pregnancy warm season exposure and neighborhood heat vulnerability with adverse maternal outcomes: A retrospective cohort study

The Journal of Climate Change and Health

 

Climate-smart public health for global health resilience

The Lancet Planetary Health

 

Climate Change: Extreme Heat and Pregnancy Health Factsheet

APHA Children’s Environmental Health Committee

Events & Opportunities

Climate Communication Training Series

Outsized Impact: Making Your Voice Heard at the Local Level

September 2, 2025

 

By engaging the usual suspects and those in new sectors, you can expand your impact. Learn how to be strategic about your outreach to move the needle toward climate action. Speakers: Gaurab Basu, Preeti Jaggi, Brittany Keyes.

 

REGISTER HERE

Back to School Night: Raising Resilient Kids in an Age of Disasters

September 11, 2025

 

At this interactive event, you will hear from speakers who are advocates, researchers, authors, and medical professionals about addressing the emotional impacts of challenges like climate change and healing through collective action.

 

REGISTER HERE

Diploma in Climate Medicine

The Diploma in Climate Medicine equips healthcare providers to lead in climate and health policy, environmental justice, health system decarbonization, workforce training, and research dissemination. Learn more and register here.

CHEF Corner: Updates From Our Fellowships

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Climate & Health Equity Webinar Series: Transforming Health Through Environmental Justice and Organizing
September 12, 2025

 

Join us for the seventh session in our Climate & Health Equity Webinar Series, which will focus on environmental justice and health with guest speaker Abre' Conner, Esq.

 

REGISTER HERE

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August CHEF Connection

 

This month, our fellows and alumni have been tackling the topic of extreme heat through podcasts, op-eds, and interviews. Read August's CHEF Connection here to learn more about what they've been up to.

2026 Climate & Health Equity Fellowship Application

 

The purpose of this fellowship is to increase the number of physician leaders in climate and health equity from racial/ethnic groups that are underrepresented in medicine. Join our sixth cohort—apply by November 15!

 

APPLY HERE

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