public health – California Climate and Energy Collaborative

Whitehouse wants to make it easier to release methane into air

September 14, 2018

“The Trump administration, taking its third major step this year to roll back federal efforts to fight climate change, is preparing to make it significantly easier for energy companies to release methane into the atmosphere. The Environmental Protection Agency, perhaps as soon as this week, plans to make public a proposal to weaken an Obama-era…

U.S EPA says more Americans will die under its power-plant rollback

August 31, 2018

Sarina Soor

ghgs, public health

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“The US EPA says its proposal to relax greenhouse gas limits on power plants will cause as many as1,630 additional premature deaths annually by 2030 from heart and lung disease — an estimate independent experts say may be low. The projection is contained in a 289-page technical document accompanying the agency’s proposal to replace the…

Scientists link record heat and power outages in Southern California to climate change

July 13, 2018

Sarina Soor

climate change, extreme heat, heat, public health

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“Temperatures shot up over 110 degrees in Southern California earlier this month, obliterating all kinds of long-standing heat records, and the lights went out for tens of thousands of customers. Californians were powerless, without air conditioning, in the hottest weather many had ever experienced. Climate scientists have known this was coming, and it may only…

2018 State of the Air Report

April 20, 2018

Sarina Soor

air quality, climate change, public health, state of the air

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The “State of the Air 2018” found ozone pollution worsened significantly in 2014- 2016 compared to the previous report, while improvements continued in year-round particle pollution and fewer episodes of high particle days. This year’s report provides continued evidence that the United States must continue to fight climate change and to support and enforce the…

Are we ready for the deadly heat waves of the future?

April 5, 2018

Sarina Soor

city heat, heat, public health, urban heat island

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“Year in and year out, heat claims lives. Since 1986, the first year the National Weather Service reported data on heat-related deaths, more people in the United States have died from heat (3,979) than from any other weather-related disaster — more than floods (2,599), tornadoes (2,116) or hurricanes (1,391). Heat’s victim counts would be even…

California’s climate fight gets harder soon, and the big culprit is cars

January 19, 2018

Sarina Soor

automobiles, climate change, electric vehicles, public health

“Emissions-reduction must hit 40 percent by 2030 and twice that by 2050. In 12 years, half the state’s energy must come from renewable sources such as wind and sun. California’s 14 million buildings must operate twice as efficiently, and the number of electric cars on the road will have to multiply more than 10 times. Failure…