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Daily Archives: January 22, 2021

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How does wildfire smoke affect health at the very

How does wildfire smoke affect health at the very beginning of life?

In the latest episode of ANHE’s Nurses for Healthy Environments podcast, Tara Marko, PhD, RN, a nurse researcher and neonatal intensive care nurse, discusses her research on wildfire smoke exposure and maternal and newborn health, and how nurses can help protect families from environmental health risks.

Listen now (link in bio): https://zurl.co/DIqcW

New product screening from the Campaign for Health

New product screening from the Campaign for Healthier Solutions @nontoxdlrstores shows that “it’s not that hard to find a banned ingredient openly listed on product labels in the dollar store beauty aisle.” The good news? Dollar Tree has made new commitments to restrict PFAS, formaldehyde releasers and other toxics, facing pressure from shoppers and safer cosmetics laws at the state level.

Read the report: https://zurl.co/WCG3s

A major ethylene oxide (EtO) leak in Virginia is r

A major ethylene oxide (EtO) leak in Virginia is raising concerns about public health risks and federal emission protections.

ANHE Policy Analyst Sarah Bucic, RN, spoke with Spotlight on America about the importance of strong regulations and protecting communities exposed to this cancer-causing gas.

Read the full story and watch the interview: https://zurl.co/ZuePb (link in bio)

#EnvironmentalHealth #NursesForHealthyEnvironments

Climate action is on your ballot, even when the wo

Climate action is on your ballot, even when the word “climate” is not. It shows up in decisions about schools, transportation, housing, energy, public health, emergency preparedness, clean air, safe water, and the future of your community.

Preview your ballot now, then use the Climate Candidate and Ballot Assessment Tool to make sure your choices align with your climate values and community priorities.

→ https://zurl.co/KH1Bf
→ https://zurl.co/xpF7t
#ElectionEarth2026 #ClimateVoter #ClimateMajority

Environmental health is essential to nursing care.

Environmental health is essential to nursing care. Nurses need the knowledge and skills to recognize environmental risks and respond to their effects on patient health.

Join ANHE on Thursday, October 8, for the kick-off of our national initiative to integrate environmental health, weather-related health impacts, exposure-informed care, and planetary health across nursing education. Register here (link in bio): https://zurl.co/ecgap

Learn about our roadmap for strengthening nursing education and licensure standards, equipping educators with curricula and simulation tools, and building the evidence and partnerships to support this work.

Nurse educators, students, researchers, clinical champions, health system leaders, and regulatory partners are invited to help prepare the next generation of nurses.

📅 Thursday, October 8
⏰ 12–1 PM ET | Virtual via Zoom

ANHE is excited to partner with the National Assoc

ANHE is excited to partner with the National Association of Hispanic Nurses for the 2027 NAHN Hispanic Health Policy Summit (HHPS) in Washington, D.C. from January 26-27, 2027! #NAHNHHPS is focused on bringing together Latinx-focused organizations to transform healthcare policy, accelerate the pace of research, and propose potential solutions to health care issues affecting the Hispanic population. Attendees will engage in educational sessions, coaching opportunities, and meetings with local government representatives. Head to @nahn_nursing and click the link in their bio to register and learn more!

Celebrate the 2026 Child Health Advocate and NOW Y

Celebrate the 2026 Child Health Advocate and NOW Youth Leadership Awardees in style at a festive and high-energy event open to all members of the children’s environmental health community!

When: October 8 at 6 pm
Where: The Dockmaster’s Building at District Wharf in Washington, DC

This evening is dedicated to honoring extraordinary leaders who are advancing science, policy, advocacy, and creativity to ensure all children can grow up in safe and healthy environments. We’ll come together to recognize inspiring champions, uplift youth voices, and strengthen connections across generations and build our children's environmental health community. Join the party for an evening full of community building, food, dancing, art, and inspiration abound!

Register here: https://zurl.co/pzbI9

We believe that all children deserve clean air, cl

We believe that all children deserve clean air, clean water, safe food and products, and healthy places to live, learn and play. That’s why we work to protect children’s environmental health year-round and why we’re excited for the eleventh annual Children's Environmental Health Day (CEH Day) on October 8th! Join us: https://zurl.co/0oPK2

What can nurses do about toxic chemicals? Join ANH

What can nurses do about toxic chemicals? Join ANHE next week on 10/13 for Toxic Chemicals 101, a three-hour workshop focused on the science and health effects of toxic chemical exposures and how nurses can communicate about these risks and take action.

Hear from keynote speaker Roxana Chicas, PhD, RN, FAAN, and plenary speaker Pouné Saberi, MD, MPH.

📅 Tuesday, October 13
⏰ 1–4:30 PM ET
🎓 3 contact hours available

Register today (link in bio): https://zurl.co/OsKwn

Join the ANHE Food & Agriculture Committee for a t

Join the ANHE Food & Agriculture Committee for a three-part discussion series, drawn from chapters in the 4th Edition of the Environmental Health in Nursing. This series brings together speakers from the Food and Agriculture Committee to explore the most pressing issues facing the food system today. Beginning with the impact of climate change on agriculture, the series moves into the challenge of food and nutrition insecurity, and closes with a broader examination of the environmental concerns tied to food production.

Register here for all three webinars: https://zurl.co/7jMTJ

Webinar 1: Confronting Food and Nutrition Insecurity | Thursday October 15th
Speaker: Diane Van Hoose, PhD, MSN, RN, Associate Professor, University of Hawai‘i Hilo School of Nursing

This session explores the growing challenge of food and nutrition insecurity and what's being done to address it. Speakers will unpack the root causes — from supply chain disruptions and economic barriers to access gaps in underserved communities — and highlight programs, policies, and partnerships working to close those gaps. The discussion will also touch on the connection between food access and public health outcomes, offering attendees practical insight into how nurses, policymakers, and communities can collaborate to improve nutrition security.

💧 Wetlands and streams are essential to clean drin

💧 Wetlands and streams are essential to clean drinking water. Tens of millions of people rely on streams that don’t flow year-round, while wetlands naturally filter pollution. These waters deserve strong protection, not weaker Clean Water Act rules.

📢 Tell the EPA to protect our water. Submit a comment by Oct. 9: https://zurl.co/lCVyV

Sharing the big news about Curtis Bay Energy! Curt

Sharing the big news about Curtis Bay Energy! Curtis Bay is the nation's largest medical waste incinerator and has just announced they will be closing. This news comes after a long concentrated campaign by The South Baltimore Community Land Trust (SBCLT), a network of community members, including the Land Trust, the Community of Curtis Bay Association, residents from nearby Anne Arundel County and researchers from Johns Hopkins documented the pollution from the Curtis Bay Medical Incinerator.

ANHE became aware of the Curtis Bay incinerator a few years back and encouraged our nurse members to find out if their facility was sending waste to the Baltimore, Maryland site. We continue to encourage nurses and hospital systems to utilize their critical role in moving towards re-use and alternatives to harmful disposal methods!

Read more about it here (link in bio): https://zurl.co/fkpST

ANHE has joined EPN and other national organizatio

ANHE has joined EPN and other national organizations calling for a Data Center Health Protection Pledge, so the health costs of data center growth receive the same attention as electricity costs. Read more (link in bio) https://zurl.co/Inp2i

Clean water is essential to community health, incl

Clean water is essential to community health, including where we swim.

An analysis from Environment America Research & Policy Center and Frontier Group found that 69% of monitoring locations across 17 states had potentially unsafe contamination levels on at least one testing day during 2024–2025.

ANHE Executive Director Katie Huffling helped review the analysis, which highlights the need for stronger wastewater infrastructure and expanded water quality monitoring to protect public health.

Read the findings and recommendations: https://zurl.co/XDHid 🔗 in bio

#CleanWater #EnvironmentalHealth #NursesForHealthyEnvironments

Nurses have a critical role in protecting health i

Nurses have a critical role in protecting health in a changing climate, including advocating alongside communities facing the greatest environmental burdens.

A new publication co-authored by ANHE’s Hannah Noel, Sarah Bucic, Milagros R. Elia, and Katie Huffling examines how nurses can advance climate and environmental justice, from everyday patient care to public policy.

It also highlights ANHE’s Environmental Health Nurse Fellowship and efforts to integrate climate health into nursing education, showing how nurses can turn knowledge into action while centering the priorities of communities most affected.

Read the publication (link in bio): https://zurl.co/UQJwM

#NursesForHealthyEnvironments #ClimateJustice #EnvironmentalJustice

Celebrate the 2026 Child Health Advocate and NOW Y

Celebrate the 2026 Child Health Advocate and NOW Youth Leadership Awardees in style at a festive and high-energy event open to all members of the children’s environmental health community!

When: October 8 at 6 pm
Where: The Dockmaster’s Building at District Wharf in Washington, DC

This evening is dedicated to honoring extraordinary leaders who are advancing science, policy, advocacy, and creativity to ensure all children can grow up in safe and healthy environments. We’ll come together to recognize inspiring champions, uplift youth voices, and strengthen connections across generations and build our children's environmental health community. Join the party for an evening full of community building, food, dancing, art, and inspiration abound!

Register here: https://zurl.co/pzbI9

Nurses know that protecting public health means pr

Nurses know that protecting public health means preventing harm before it happens.

ANHE Executive Director Katie Huffling and Milagros Elia, ANHE Program Manager, Climate & Clean Energy Advocacy testified against EPA’s proposal to eliminate greenhouse gas standards for power plants. Nurses are already seeing the health effects of climate change in their patients, including respiratory illness and harm from extreme heat and severe weather.

EPA has a responsibility to protect our health. ANHE urges the agency to withdraw this proposal and maintain strong limits on carbon pollution from power plants. Our communities deserve protections that put their health first.

@actonclimateus #ClimateCantWait #CleanAir

We believe that all children deserve clean air, cl

We believe that all children deserve clean air, clean water, safe food and products, and healthy places to live, learn and play. That’s why we work to protect children’s environmental health year-round and why we’re excited for the eleventh annual Children's Environmental Health Day (CEH Day) on October 8th! Join us: https://zurl.co/0oPK2

Environmental health is essential to nursing care.

Environmental health is essential to nursing care. Nurses need the knowledge and skills to recognize environmental risks and respond to their effects on patient health.

Join ANHE on Thursday, October 8, for the kick-off of our national initiative to integrate environmental health, weather-related health impacts, exposure-informed care, and planetary health across nursing education. Register here (link in bio): https://zurl.co/ecgap

Learn about our roadmap for strengthening nursing education and licensure standards, equipping educators with curricula and simulation tools, and building the evidence and partnerships to support this work.

Nurse educators, students, researchers, clinical champions, health system leaders, and regulatory partners are invited to help prepare the next generation of nurses.

📅 Thursday, October 8
⏰ 12–1 PM ET | Virtual via Zoom

What would happen if 10,000 nurses asked their ele

What would happen if 10,000 nurses asked their elected officials the same question?

“Will you take action to protect the health of our communities from environmental risks?”

Join ANHE’s Policy and Advocacy Forum tomorrow, Thursday, October 1, from 3–4 PM ET to learn about the upcoming launch of the Nurses Ask Challenge. Forum co-chairs Kasey Bellegarde Armstrong and Cristina Watkins will introduce the campaign, which challenges nurses nationwide to ask this question ahead of the November midterms.

Share your feedback and learn how you can participate!

Register in advance (link in bio): https://zurl.co/HN9Je

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