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September 22, 2009
Posted by Kim Knowlton in Curbing Pollution
, Environmental Justice
, Health and the Environment
, Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
, The Media and the Environment
, U.S. Law and Policy
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- climatechange, copenhagencountdown, globalwarming, health, vulnerablecommunities
As Congress continues to grapple with health care reform this week, heads of state meet at a UN summit to face the challenge of climate change in preparation for a December conference in Copenhagen. Given the dire health consequences of...
December 4, 2008
Posted by Kim Knowlton in Health and the Environment
, U.S. Law and Policy
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- bushadministration, CDC, climatechange, globalwarming, health, monitoring, surveillance, USGS
You (like most people) may assume that there's a federal government agency (or two or three) able to carefully watch over what you, your family, and your community come into contact with on a daily basis. In your mind, these...
November 25, 2008
Posted by Kim Knowlton in Health and the Environment
, Solving Global Warming
, U.S. Law and Policy
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- CDC, climatechange, globalwarming, greengroup, greentransition, healthandtoxics, healthtracking, monitoring, simplesteps
In mid-November, I was hiking in the Hudson River Valley with my dog Emmett on a perfect (if unseasonably warm) autumn day, a jaunt that was marred only by my shock at the number of ticks picked off both dog...
