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- EPA's New Web Tool Reveals Carbon Polluters In Your Backyard (January 11, 2012)
- Thousands of Record-Breaking Extreme Weather Events in 2011 Prompts Public Health Action Now (December 8, 2011)
- 2011, A Year of Living Dangerously: SREX Report Highlights Need to Prepare for Extreme Events and Climate Change (November 18, 2011)
- The Staggering Health Costs of Climate Change (November 8, 2011)
- Rep. Lois Capps introduces legislation to protect health from climate change, extreme weather (November 3, 2011)
- A Labor Day Debacle for Clean Air and Health (September 5, 2011)
- Dirty, Muggy Summer Air Reminds Us Why We Need Stronger Air Quality Standards that Cut Pollution (August 30, 2011)
- Irene Approaches, But Climate Change Got Here First (August 25, 2011)
- Kidney Stones to Migraines: More Ways Heat Harms Health (August 16, 2011)
- Right In Your Backyard: Climate Change Threatens Health (August 3, 2011)
- The Wheezing Sounds of Summer: Air Pollution Is Hurting Our Children's Health (June 8, 2011)
- Talking About the Heat... Aiming To Do Something About It (March 29, 2011)
- Health Matters, and So Does Climate Change (March 9, 2011)
- Trouble In The Air: Warmer Temperatures Lengthen Midwest Ragweed Pollen Season (February 21, 2011)
- Republican Budget Could Put the Brakes on Public Health Protections (February 13, 2011)
- U.S. Not Immune to Climate Change Health Risks (February 7, 2011)
- New Study Forecasts Rising Sea Level Impacts on New York (December 15, 2010)
- Don't Surf NY's Channels Today: Algae Bloom in the Big Apple (September 8, 2010)
- Climate Change-ing your Allergies (April 18, 2010)
- Keeping tabs on Dengue Fever: Stay tuned (March 2, 2010)
- Thanks to Andy Revkin, NY Times’ departing climate change reporter (December 17, 2009)
- Depend on Women to Keep the Momentum Rolling on Global Warming (December 17, 2009)
- The Rising Tide of Illness: Global Warming and the Threat of Waterborne Diseases (October 15, 2009)
- Breakbone Fever: Not What the Doctor Ordered (October 15, 2009)
- Doctors Demand Climate Change Action to Avert "Global Health Catastrophe" (September 22, 2009)
- Is Global Warming A “Slow-Motion Disaster?” Not for India (September 11, 2009)
- The Looming Threat of Dengue Fever in the U.S. (July 9, 2009)
- Once Bitten: Top Traveler Questions About Dengue Fever (July 8, 2009)
- New Lancet study calls climate change ‘the biggest global health threat of the 21st century’ (May 15, 2009)
- Global Warming Poses a Double Threat to Health for Asthma and Allergy Sufferers (May 12, 2009)
- Kids' Health Suffers As Climate Change Worsens Smog (May 4, 2009)
- Drink It Up: Water & Health- (Un)Common, Priceless Commodities (March 20, 2009)
- Mind the Gap: Climate-Health Preparedness in the U.S. Needs More Support (March 19, 2009)
- What You Don’t Know Can Definitely Hurt You: The Bush Administration’s Failures to Protect Our Health (December 4, 2008)
- Tick, Tick, Tick… Time to Transition to a Healthy Budget for CDC (November 25, 2008)
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