You’ve been told, again and again, that climate change isn’t real. That it’s not caused by humans. That the planet always goes through these cycles and that scientists disagree. You’ve been told that climate change is beneficial and burning fossil fuels is necessary to lift people out of poverty. You’ve been told that stopping climate

This is the latest in a six-times per year column that Rebecca Rehr and I do for the National Journal of Environmental Health. In this one, we talk about how environmental health professionals can leverage their work to go beyond the walls of their organization or community to build public support and political will for

Global warming seeped into our consciousness during the Carter administration in the late 1970s. Our burning of fossil fuels was pouring gigatons of pollution into the atmosphere and waters changing the chemistry and temperature of the planet, destroying the nature that sustains us, and creating an existential emergency for humans and other life on the

NEHA is an official partner of ecoAmerica and works closely with our Climate for Health Program, a coalition of health leaders committed to caring for our climate to care for our health. Rebecca Rehr, the director of ecoAmerica’s Climate for Health program and I write six columns a year for their Journal of Environmental Health.

And get it from clean, renewable sources Over the past 10 years since our first American Climate Leadership Summit, it feels like we’ve gone from future tense to past tense without stopping in the present. Just decade ago, solar and wind were financially uncompetitive, 10x their current cost. For all practical purposes, ten years ago there

Rebecca Rehr and I teamed up for our fourth article for NEHA’s Environmental Health Journal. Coming in May 2021, ” “Denial: Our Biggest Environmental Health Threat?”. Here’s the link to the Climate for Health blog post on it:https://climateforhealth.org/6756-2/ and here’s the link to the article in the Journal: https://www.neha.org/sites/default/files/jeh/JEH5.21-Column-Direct-From-ecoAmerica.pdf.The article does more than describe the

A week ago today, a few thousand protestors gathered at Black Lives Matter Plaza across from the White House to listen to the last egomaniacal, anti-democratic, hate-filled, diatribe-of-lies speech by Donald Trump as president of the United States. They were joined by many Republican congress members, urged to insurrection by Trump, and then marched down

with Rebecca C. Rehr MPH Climate change is moving to the forefront of concern for people in the U.S. and all over the world. Accelerating climate-change charged events, including wildfires, floods, severe storms, displacement of people, and economic damage, cannot be ignored. We all need to consider new strategies to amplify the effectiveness of our

On Saturday morning just before noon, I was lucky to be driving less than two blocks from the White House when we heard the first happy horn. It took my wife Lisa maybe six seconds to suspect what was up. “Turn on the radio,” she said. A moment later our windows were down, our hands

The climate, public health, economic, democratic, and racial crises we are living in are intertwined, rooted in systemic injustice. This is not a coincidence. There is a concentration of power and wealth amongst a tiny elite that does not invest in or care about public education, public health, equal opportunity, or equal rights but rather