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Advocating for Action on Climate Change and Health by Kathy …

Published October 22, 2021

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On November 22, 2024 the U.S. The Environmental Pr

On November 22, 2024 the U.S. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed updated
standards for NOx pollution from gas-red power plants for the first time since 2006.

The proposal would protect people from nitrogen oxides (NOx) – contaminants that are emitted by gas power plants and contribute to particle pollution and smog.

In response to the EPA’s announcement, the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environment’s (ANHE) Executive Director Katie Hufing, DNP, RN, CNM, FAAN issued the following statement:

“The Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments supports the EPA proposed NOx pollution standard for new gas-red power plants as an important step to reduce dangerous emissions and improve health. However, this has been long overdue in being reviewed, and, current NOx limits are now out of date. “Nurses understand that dangerous NOx pollution from power plants contributes to smog and soot pollution, which increases the public health risk of heart disease, stroke, and respiratory disease. These impacts disproportionately affect communities living near power plants who have historically borne the brunt of air pollution. More must be done to protect people and communities from dangerous NOx pollution. We strongly urge the EPA to finalize this standard as an important first step in protecting public health.”

ANHE has released a new episode of our podcast 🎤🎤 focused on our new PFAS toolkit! This episode is hosted by Beth Schenk, PhD, RN, FAAN, and features ANHE staff members Cristina Watkins, FNP-BC, Leka Rob, and public health professional Paloma Greenwald, RN, BSN, MA. We dive into the toolkit and analyzed how it has already been utilized by professionals across the country.

LISTEN NOW: https://zurl.co/2UhI or use the link in bio 🔗🔗

The purpose of the toolkit is to provide useful information to guide clinical practice and decision making. Patients, community members or colleagues may present with questions around PFAS exposures, PFAS testing and/or results, health implications, and what actions they can take to reduce exposures. We hope this toolkit will be a valuable resource for providing guidance around these questions.

Reports from ANHE at COP29! Hear from Milagros El

Reports from ANHE at COP29!

Hear from Milagros Elia, ANHE's Program Manager of Climate & Clean Energy Advocacy, as she lays out why it is critical for nurses to be present at COP29.

"The presence of nurses at COP29 is absolutely critical so that we can advocate for health to be included in climate change policies. We are also able to meet up with partners and collaborate on ways to push forward actions that mitigate climate change. Further, the conference is a chance to promote sustainable solutions for healthcare systems both in the US and globally."

Stay tuned for more COP29 takeaways!

🆕 @Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Chang

🆕 @Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change’s latest report shows that while climate action is limited by a scarcity of funding, financial resources continue to be allocated to activities that harm health and hinder the transition to net zero greenhouse gas emissions.

❌ These investments jeopardise people’s wellbeing, health and survival which heavily depend on phasing out fossil fuels
❌ These investments further escalate climate risks for future generations
❌ These investments set us up for financial turmoil as we pursue a liveable future

People’s health must be put front and centre of climate change policy to ensure the funding mechanisms protect wellbeing, reduce health inequities and maximise health gains, especially for the countries and communities that need it most.

Read the full report: https://zurl.co/FdNP

Join us next Monday 11/25 at 1PM ET for ANHE's Glo

Join us next Monday 11/25 at 1PM ET for ANHE's Global Nurses Climate Change Committee call with Dr. Kent Boyd. Register today by heading to https://zurl.co/LRR2 or using the link in our bio

Dr. Boyd is a Doctor of Nursing Practice and the Climate Adaptation, Resilience, and Public Health Extension Educator with the University of Minnesota Climate
Adaptation Partnership (MCAP). Before working in academia and community outreach,
he had experience as a pediatric hematology/oncology/solid organ transplant and adult
orthopedics registered nurse. He received his Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) from
the University of Minnesota in the Health Innovation and Leadership specialty, where he
focused his doctoral studies on Planetary Health, community climate adaptation and
resilience, and transformative systems change. In his current role, he works at the
intersection of climate and public health, developing climate adaptation projects for
communities, emergency management, and health professionals across Minnesota.

NEW REPORT! Last week, the American Lung Associati

NEW REPORT! Last week, the American Lung Association released a new report entitled "Something in the Air: Bridging the Air Quality Data Gap with Satellite Technology." The report emphasizes how emerging technologies, such as satellites, can help provide critical air quality information to underserved communities lacking official monitoring data. Read the full report today! https://zurl.co/KrRm

ANHE is at COP29! We spoke with Charlotte McArdle.

ANHE is at COP29! We spoke with Charlotte McArdle. Charlottle is a registered nurse and the Deputy Chief Nursing Officer for Patient Safety and Improvement for National Health Service (NHS) England. Charlotte is leading policy work on same sex accommodation, care partners for patients, and a range of safety and improvement programs. Alongside this, Charlotte leads the nursing profession’s response to sustainable healthcare, recognizing the role nurses and midwives play to reduce climate change and make strong links between the health of the planet and the health of the population. She is at COP29 representing Sigma Nursing.

Hear from her today!

Stay tuned for more COP29 updates

ANHE is at COP29! We spoke with Sue Anne Bell. Dr.

ANHE is at COP29! We spoke with Sue Anne Bell. Dr. Bell is a nurse scientist and family nurse practitioner, with expertise in disaster response, community health and emergency care. Her research focuses broadly on the health effects of disasters and the impact of climate change on human health within a health equity framework. She is particularly interested in the long-term impact of disasters on human’s health, in developing policy that protects and promotes health throughout the disaster management cycle, and in the relationship between community resilience, health disparities and disasters.

Hear from her today!

Stay tuned for more COP29 updates

🎉 The 2024 Retailer Report Card is here! 🎁A

🎉 The 2024 Retailer Report Card is here!

🎁As you plan your holiday shopping, find out if your favorite retailer is committed to selling safer products or if it earned a place in the 2024 Toxic Hall of Shame.

🔍 Using a new grading system called The Four Essential Elements for a Safer Marketplace, we evaluated the largest retailers in the U.S. and Canada and found that most are failing to protect customers from toxic chemicals and plastics in their products and packaging. The average grade was a D+.

👎 Seventeen retailers earned failing grades, including 7-Eleven, Five Below, McDonald’s, LL Flooring, and Sally Beauty.

🏆 But Apple, Sephora, Target, and Walmart earned top grades, demonstrating that it IS possible for retailers to restrict toxic chemicals and advance safer solutions.

🖥️ As our recent report on recycled black plastics shows, when retailers don’t protect consumers from toxic chemicals and plastics, the results are troubling: toxic chemicals like flame retardants in our cookware, toys, take-out containers, and more.

👀 Which retailer was most improved? Which sector earned the lowest scores? Which retailers were evaluated for the first time?

Learn more and take action!

https://zurl.co/iz4Q (link in bio!)

ANHE is at COP29! We spoke with Imogen Stringer, r

ANHE is at COP29! We spoke with Imogen Stringer, registered nurse and the Head of Sustainability Education and Implementation Manager at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London. She was previously a Chief Sustainability Officer’s Clinical Fellow, working nationally across the Chief Nursing Office and Greener NHS Team where she worked on a variety of projects including establishing IPC and Sustainability ‘exemplar sites’. In both roles Imogen has been and continues to be an advocate for collaboration across IPC and Sustainability teams.

Hear from her today!

Stay tuned for more COP29 updates

The Biden administration is running out of time to

The Biden administration is running out of time to fulfill its promises to stop using U.S. taxpayer dollars to finance fossil fuel projects overseas. And, as Donald Trump is about to assume the presidency, this is one of the final chances for President Joe Biden to cement his climate legacy and assert international leadership in the process. Learn more today by heading to https://zurl.co/k3qh or using the link in our bio.

Dirty diesel trucks 🚚🚚🚚 are polluting New

Dirty diesel trucks 🚚🚚🚚 are polluting New York’s communities. We need @GovKathyHochul to protect the measures we already have in place to clean up our air and stay the course on #CleanerTruck standards. Read more from @NYCEJAlliance & @sierraclub: https://zurl.co/mL2v or use the link in our bio 🔗🔗🔗

ANHE is at COP29! Hear from Cara Cook, ANHE's Di

ANHE is at COP29!

Hear from Cara Cook, ANHE's Director of Programs, as she lays out why this year's conference is so important and what ANHE is hoping to accomplish during our time here.

"This year’s conference is extremely important for a couple reasons. First, we’re here advocating for the Biden administration to submit an ambitious NDC (Nationally Determined Contribution) as part of the Paris Agreement by the end of their term. The second reason is related to climate finance. Countries will be agreeing to a new collective climate finance goal. Right now, the 100B per year that has been committed is NOT ENOUGH! So we are advocating for a much stronger and ambitious goal for countries to agree to. "

Stay tuned for more updates!

ANHE is at @cop29_azerbaijan ! On Wednesday, we

ANHE is at @cop29_azerbaijan !

On Wednesday, we participated in "A Fast, Full, Fair, Funded, Feminist Fossil Fuel Phase-Out" alongside @ClimateActionNetwork and @CareAboutClimate. Together, we discussed the campaign and outlined what exactly is required to ensure an equitable and just fossil fuel phaseout. The campaign aims to influence US decision makers to end the era of fossil fuels, ensure a just transition, and pay a fair share of the costs of a global just transition from fossil fuel extraction.

Stay tuned for more COP29 updates!

#COP29 #climateaction #fossilfuelphaseout

The 2024 @Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate C

The 2024 @Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change report reveals that we are facing record-breaking health threats, yet climate change action is limited by a scarcity of funding.

This comes just weeks before COP29, dubbed the ‘finance COP’ – where the New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance is due to be adopted, and arrangements for the Loss and Damage (L&D) Fund will be considered and approved.

So how can action to protect health be better integrated into these mechanisms?
👨⚕️👩⚕️ Read our recommendations for action ⬇️ #LancetClimate24
https://zurl.co/WKnH or use the link in our bio!

📊 Did you know? North America’s 4% of the glo

📊 Did you know? North America’s 4% of the global population has been responsible for nearly a quarter of global emissions since 1850, while South Asia’s 25% of the population only contributed 4%. It’s time for climate justice and fair solutions - and we don’t have a second to waste! Take the pledge to contact the White House on November 15th to demand US climate action - https://zurl.co/wsT1 or head to the link in our bio 🔗🔗🔗 #ClimateJustice #FairShare

Cuts to climate protections would put 200,000+ liv

Cuts to climate protections would put 200,000+ lives at risk and millions of jobs being created by clean energy investments. The lame-duck Congress must #StandStrongforClimate and reject cuts to clean energy investments, climate protections, and climate agencies.

A core value of ANHE is community and support of o

A core value of ANHE is community and support of one another. Post-election, we are working on ways for ANHE nurses to come together in support of each other. That's why we've decided to host a Nurse Led Healing Circle on Monday, November 18 at 3PM EST/12 PM PST.

Register today by using the link in our bio or heading to https://zurl.co/naDQ

Healing circles are safe havens and they help us step out of ordinary time into a safe and accepting environment in which we can explore our healing. Humans have gathered in circles and told stories around campfires since the beginning of fire. Today in circles, humans tell their stories and share their response patterns. In holding a safe container—a circle—nurses have the opportunity to provide an environment that allows individuals to share their stories while also examining their response patterns, and to bend the arc of their lives toward health and happiness while resting in the supportive community of others. In this process, nurse leaders of healing circles are rediscovering and reclaiming the joy that brought them into nursing, the joy that we experience when we are truly practicing nursing.

Our nurse leader for this Healing Circle will be Healing Circle host and trainer Catherine Dodd PhD, RN, FAAN. We hope that you can join us!

The climate crisis is here and now and it’s alre

The climate crisis is here and now and it’s already costing us lives, health, and dollars. The outcome of the election means all the protections we’ve fought so hard for the last few years in tackling the climate crisis – protections that save thousands of lives saved through new pollution standards, create hundreds of thousands of jobs and invest billions of dollars in clean energy – are on the line. With lots to do before the end of the year and multiple major “must-pass” bills in Congress, the next two months will be a challenge for climate progress. We’re calling on Congress to stand strong for climate and reject any attempt to use these bills to erode climate progress.

Calling your member of Congress is one the most powerful things you can do to affect how they vote on climate.

Submit this form today to receive a call script and be connected with your senator's office (or use the link in bio 🔗🔗) https://zurl.co/ykDD

Be sure to join us NEXT TUESDAY at 3PM ET for our

Be sure to join us NEXT TUESDAY at 3PM ET for our FREE webinar, "Reducing Plastic Use in the Health Sector and Beyond," presented by the ANHE Practice Forum.

REGISTER TODAY: https://zurl.co/ik34 or use the link in our bio 🔗🔗🔗

As much as 50% of all plastic products produced (380 million tonnes annually) are only used once. Only 9% of plastics are recycled globally.

This timely webinar will focus on how nurses can engage at a health systems, community, and advocacy level to help reduce plastic pollution in the health sector and beyond. Speakers Oriana Turley and Kate Donovan will discuss the opportunities available for nurses from various practice settings to support initiatives and activities aimed at reducing plastic pollution.

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