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Clinic Aims to Co-Create New Approach to Environmental Justice
The Goldman-Sonnenfeldt Environmental Protection Clinic (EPC) at Yale Law School partnered with Elevate Policy Lab of the Yale School of Public Health and the Yale Child Study Center, Yale School of Medicine to build out a new model of environmental justice practice grounded in civic engagement methods.
Source: YLS Today
30 May 2023
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Deziel testifies to health risks of oil and gas exploration
The health impacts of living near an oil or gas well include increased adverse pregnancy outcomes, childhood cancers, hospitalizations, asthma exacerbations, mental health issues, and mortality among the elderly.
4 May 2023
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YSPH Revamps Climate Change and Health Certificate
The Yale Center on Climate Change and Health’s online certificate program has been redesigned and recently launched. Dr. Daniel Carrión, YCCCH Director of Education, noted that "one of the opportunities to improve was to make sure that we are covering more content about other parts of the world, and then to do a more explicit job bringing in issues of justice and equity as we think about climate change."
Source: Yale Daily News
4 Apr 2023
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Yale Experts Explain Climate Anxiety
Several Yale researchers are at the forefront of studying the rising tide of climate anxiety and ways to ameliorate it.
Source: Yale Sustainability
21 Mar 2023
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Yale Expertise, Illuminated
Yale alumni and friends gather in New York City for “Cities and Climate Solutions.”
Source: The Yale Campaign
10 Mar 2023
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Exposure to air pollution increases risk for anxiety or depression. What can you do?
A growing body of evidence suggests that the air we breathe could be affecting our mental as well as our physical health.
Source: USA Today
6 Feb 2023
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SMART Talks: Climate Change Mitigation: Protecting the Health of Current and Future Generations
Climate change constitutes the greatest public health challenge of the 21 st century. Consequently, climate change mitigation (i.e., urgent and steep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions) is absolutely essential to protect our health and that of future generations.
Source: Caixin Global
12 Jan 2023
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Will California’s new oil and gas laws protect people from toxic pollution?
California will soon have the largest oil drilling setbacks in the U.S. Experts say other states can learn from this move.
Source: The Daily Climate
9 Jan 2023
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Massachusetts AG Healey Expands Air Quality Monitoring Project to Track Pollution Levels in Pioneer Valley Communities
Massachusetts AG’s Office Provides Funding for Installation of Additional Air Quality Monitors in Environmental Justice Communities and Communities Along the I-91 Corridor.
Source: Mass.gov
4 Jan 2023
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National Heat Vulnerability Index Reveals Neighborhoods at High Vulnerability to Heat
A team of researchers at the Yale School of Public Health has developed a metric to gauge heat vulnerability at the census-tract level and created a color-coded interactive map for public use.
19 Dec 2022
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Climate change, food security, and indigenous health in the Arctic
Sappho Gilbert, a doctoral candidate at the Yale University School of Public Health, discusses her NIEHS-funded project to better understand how climate change and other environmental factors are altering food security and nutrition among Inuit communities in the Canadian Arctic.
16 Nov 2022
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Donation Drive Highlights Sustainability Week
A “Repurpose, Revive, Regift” donation drive will take place during Yale's Celebrate Sustainability Week, October 3-7.
30 Sep 2022
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How heat affects health: An overlooked outcome of climate change
Climate change-induced health impacts are gaining traction as a primary concern — heat chief among them, but so are air quality, water quality, disease-carrying insects and secondary impacts such as mold, loss of electricity from catastrophic events and the mental health toll from each of the above.
Source: CT Mirror
25 Sep 2022
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Public Health Agencies Lack Money to Combat Climate Threats
Medical experts say climate change will affect nearly every aspect of public health. Many of those impacts already are being felt.
Source: Pew Charitable Trusts
12 Aug 2022
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Study provides deeper insights on the health impacts of utility shutoffs
Connecticut residents who struggle to pay their energy bills often suffer from physical and mental health issues as a result. That is one of many findings in a new study of energy insecurity based on interviews with 22 residents of varying ages and races from around the state. The study was a joint undertaking by the Yale School of Public Health, Yale School of the Environment, Vermont Law and Graduate School, and Operation Fuel, an energy-assistance nonprofit.
Source: Energy News Network
9 Aug 2022
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Two Heart Medications Tied to Greater Heart Attack Risk During Very Hot Weather
A new Yale study found that, among people suffering non-fatal heart attacks associated with hot weather, an outsize portion were taking beta-blockers or antiplatelet medication. The study doesn’t prove that these medications caused the heart attacks, nor that they make people more vulnerable to heart attack. Although it’s possible that they did increase the risk of heart attacks triggered by hot weather, it’s also possible that patients’ underlying heart disease explains both the prescriptions and the higher susceptibility to heart attack during hot weather.
1 Aug 2022
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Climate Change and Energy Insecurity Are Impacting Connecticut Residents’ Health
The environmental impacts of climate change and a complex and often inefficient network of energy assistance programs are negatively affecting the health and well-being of Connecticut residents already burdened by the state’s soaring utility costs, according to a new report.
27 Jul 2022
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Drought Linked to Higher Diarrhea Risk in Children
Diarrhea is a leading killer of young children around the world, and cases often rise after heavy rains and flooding. But diarrhea risks can also increase in dry conditions, an ominous sign as the world continues to get warmer due to climate change.
30 Jun 2022
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It’s Hot Outside — And That’s Bad News for Children’s Health
Heat waves are getting hotter and becoming more frequent because of rising rates of air pollution, putting children’s health at risk, a wide-ranging new report finds.
Source: Kaiser Health News
16 Jun 2022
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This Aquaculture Startup is Taking on Methane Reduction by Feeding Red Algae to Cows
Livestock emissions of greenhouse gases may make for good memes, but cow burps are no joke. Symbrosia says its feed supplement can reduce cows' methane emissions by 80 percent.
Source: Inc.
6 Jun 2022