Over 700 ANHE Members in Arizona, California, and Nevada are working to assure healthy food, water, air, and soil for all communities. We host events, share information about what’s going on, and create opportunities for nurses to talk to their legislators and each other about all things environmental health.
What We’re Working On
Call on Gov. Newsom to enforce California’s Polystyrene ban!
Please join us and the national & local organizations who have already signed to protect California from polluting, toxic, plastic foam by clicking here to sign our letter requesting that Governor Newsom direct CalRecycle to fully enforce the ban!
Join California Nurses for Environmental Health and Justice, who are TAKING POLICY ACTION
Nurses in California are joining together to take policy action on many issues in the state, including water, climate, farmworkers, air quality, wildfires, and other toxic exposures impacting human health. Learn more and Join them here.
Tell Nevada Lawmakers and Utility Regulators: Invest in Local Clean Energy
Nevada families deserve rapid and equitable progress away from methane gas and toward local clean energy sources like solar and geothermal power. We need investments in energy efficiency and weatherization. We cannot tie our families to dirty fossil fuels for another generation.
Climate + Health Peer Learning Circle, 2025
Raise your health voice and make an impact! Join a dynamic community of health leaders dedicated to driving climate action and creating lasting change.
The Climate Advocacy Lab’s Climate + Health Peer Learning Circle is a free training program designed for experienced leaders at the intersection of climate and health. This regional initiative combines in-person workshops and virtual sessions to foster peer learning and collaboration. Participants will refine their leadership skills, gain strategies for community engagement, and exchange insights with a network of accomplished peers. If you’re ready to amplify your impact and drive systemic change, this program will equip you with the tools and connections to lead transformative climate action.
The health impacts of climate change are undeniable—and the time to act is now. As a health professional, you have the power to protect human health and inspire change.
Meet Your West Regional Forum Organizer
Tara Marko, PhD, RN
Contact Tara at tara.marko@ymail.com
Highlights
Climate and Health Learning Collaborative: Regional Webinar Series
The NAM Climate Collaborative and Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education are co-hosting a series of virtual, public sessions that showcase innovative educational resources and programs that target regional climate and health concerns to build capacity among health professionals, community leaders, and others within the US. Watch these webinars to learn about innovative climate and health regional resources with a through line of prevention, mitigation, resiliency, and recovery. Learn more here.
SOUTHWEST
Join the Arizona Nurses Association Climate Change and Health Workgroup
The Climate Change and Health Workgroup is driven by the following goals:
- Increase the core knowledge and competency of Arizona nurses regarding climate change and health through education and awareness
- Establish formal and informal partnerships and collaborations
- Enhance advocacy efforts for climate health
Learn more and Complete an Interest Form here.
Join Nevada Clinicians for Climate Action
We are doctors, nurses, pharmacists, psychologists, public health professionals, therapists, students, residents and other health professionals working for a healthier Nevada by reducing climate change impacts.
July Monthly Meeting: July 16, 2025 7-8pm MST
Learn more here
ANHE Nurses joined Healthy Schools Network, the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, the American Lung Association, the Center for Environmental Health, the Environmental Working Group and Maryland Children’s Environmental Health Coalition in a sign on letter of support for $100 million in funding for EPA’s healthy schools and children’s health programs!
Right now is the time to endorse $100 million in EPA’s FY 2026 budget for Indoor Air Quality Tools for Schools and children’s health programs, as requested in identical Dear Colleague letters signed by 30 House members and 20 Senators. The funding meets a critical unaddressed need for a modest federal investment.
EPA’s indoor air and children’s health programs have delivered high quality, science-based guidance, training, and resources to schools across the country for decades. EPA’s IAQ Tools for Schools has been the federal government’s principal source of assistance to schools for preventing and resolving indoor air quality problems, such as reducing asthma triggers, improving ventilation, and properly managing cleaning products and chemicals. Funding for EPA’s program is very important for healthy schools and the health of children, teachers and staff–especially for low income and rural-remote communities.
Read the letter here.