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Daily Archives: October 31, 2024

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The Dangers of Paraquat and the Urgent Call for Health …

Published October 31, 2024

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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.

The environmental group Route Zero is outlining th

The environmental group Route Zero is outlining their hopes of having more zero-emission vehicles on the road.

Local experts and activists spoke at an event Tuesday praising the EPA’s finalization of its clean vehicle standards and encouraging Michiganders to adopt zero emission vehicles.

Cardiac ICU Nurse at Michigan Medicine, Founder of Climate Justice Nurse, and ANHE member, Mary-Jacqueline K. Muli, says she has been seeing the growing number of climate-related health conditions in youth, emphasizing the need for broader industry involvement.

Read the full story today https://zurl.co/fTL9 or head to the link in our bio!

A special word from Katie Huffling, Executive Dire

A special word from Katie Huffling, Executive Director of ANHE:

In the wake of Tuesday's election results, I wanted to reach out to our many ANHE friends. I know that many of us are grieving and I hope you are making space to support your physical and mental health. A core value of ANHE is community and support of one another. Please join us in holding one another close and we are working on ways for ANHE nurses to come together in support of each other.

In the coming years the work of ANHE is going to be more important than ever. There are many times in the history of our country where amazing change has come from some really dark times. I truly believe that with nurses working together we can still make positive change and lay the groundwork for major transformations even in the light of these shifts in our country. Let us continue to come together in support of a healthy climate, environmental justice, clean water, and a world where every child is able to thrive.

ANHE will be organizing a healing circle in the near future.

Thank you so much for all you do in support of healthier environments.

In solidarity,

Katie

On September 17, 2024, a Congressional briefing hi

On September 17, 2024, a Congressional briefing highlighting the severe health risks associated with paraquat, one of the most dangerous herbicides used in commercial agriculture was hosted. The event was organized by prominent advocacy groups such as the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s, Alianza Nacional de Campesinas, and the Environmental Working Group, with support from the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.

It shed light on the herbicide’s undeniable link to Parkinson’s disease and various cancers, especially among agricultural workers and communities living near farms. The discussion made it clear that immediate regulatory action is needed to protect public health.

Read the full story today and learn how you can take action https://zurl.co/52eE (or head to the link 🔗 in our bio!).

Roughly 80% of healthcare’s oversized carbon foo

Roughly 80% of healthcare’s oversized carbon footprint derives from the production, transportation, use, and disposal of a single-use medical supply chain. Yet as health care organizations try to practice ‘resource stewardship’ – that is, to move away from single-use disposable items toward sustainable use of durable items – they encounter widespread perceptions that disposability is a necessary virtue in modern health care. Caregivers, patients, and health-system managers fear that any move from disposability to sustainability must lead to trade-offs in safety (from infectious threats), efficacy (in pharmaceutical delivery) or efficiency (in cost-effectiveness).

This Levi Symposium will question these perceived trade-offs, disentangling legitimate evidential and moral reasoning from the inertia of convenience. Convening scholars and practitioners in bioethics, clinical practice, environmental justice, practice innovation, and health policy, we aim to host a multi-disciplinary exploration of how we can elucidate policy pathways that harmonize clinical safety, efficacy, and efficiency with sustainability

Register today here https://zurl.co/r4kH or head to the link in our bio

This expert panel addresses how extreme heat impac

This expert panel addresses how extreme heat impacts health and our healthcare system, explores the burden on the communities most at risk, and discusses the recently released OSHA heat standards. Advocacy opportunities and resources for health organizations and individual health professionals to engage in this work are included. Click here for webinar replay - https://zurl.co/xKwu or use the link in our bio!

Speakers:
Moderator: Nicole Duritz – Director of Programs, Outreach and Strategy, The Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health
William “Brett” Perkison, MD, MPH – Assistant Professor, The University of Texas School of Public Health
Ruth McDermott-Levy, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN – Professor and Co-Director, Mid-Atlantic Center for Children’s Environmental Health and the Environment
Juanita Constible – Senior Advocate, Environmental Health, Natural Resources Defense Council

Please consider signing on to these 2 related ANHE Action Alerts!
OSHA Heat Rule - Aimed at grasstop signers: https://zurl.co/5PSx
Tell the Biden Administration to Take Action Addressing Extreme Heat - Aimed at grasstop signers: https://zurl.co/Dvy1

Last month, AHNE launched a new online learning si

Last month, AHNE launched a new online learning site which contains a range of short courses, workshops, and webinar series designed to improve your knowledge around a variety of environmental health topics. Our mission is to promote healthy people and healthy environments by educating and leading the nursing profession, advancing research, incorporating evidence-based practice, and influencing policy.

Visit the site and explore our courses today by heading to https://zurl.co/qomM or using the link 🔗 in our bio

Our course topics cover a wide range of environmental health issues. Learn about how climate change impacts the health of humans, the newest research around toxic chemicals in our environment, the fossil fuel industry, or how to engage in policy action towards a more just and equitable economy. Whatever your environmental health interests are, we've got a course to meet your nursing needs!

Everyone knows gas is for ghouls! This #Halloween

Everyone knows gas is for ghouls! This #Halloween let’s #DriveElectric instead of filling up with fossil fuels. #RouteZero

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