Marching Forward to Solutions

Entering March, we wait for the EPA to finalize standards to lower greenhouse emissions from automobiles. In April of 2023, the Biden Administration and the EPA announced draft standards to reduce greenhouse emissions from light- and medium-duty motor vehicles beginning in model year 2027. If enacted, these new standards will reduce air pollution from cars, while accelerating the manufacture and sale of zero-emission automobiles. The proposal builds upon EPA’s final standards for federal greenhouse gas emissions standards for passenger cars and light trucks for model years 2023 through 2026.

Katharine Hayhoe’s most recent Substack post, reinforces why we need to get off fossil fuels and the good news is it is getting easier to do. Prices for electric home appliances like induction stoves and heat pumps are getting cheaper and better. IKEA even stocks these appliances as well as solar panels. Yet it is easy to get overwhelmed in the process of implementing a climate-friendly lifestyle.  Check out the Rewiring America handbook for help and share, share, share your actions so we learn and make these changes together.

What We Are Reading & Listening to This Week

• Early-Life Exposure to Air Pollution and Childhood Asthma Cumulative Incidence in the ECHO CREW Consortium (JAMA Netw Open, Feb 28)

• Hourly Heat Exposure and Acute Ischemic Stoke (JAA Netw Open, Feb 28)
• $1B battery plant will bring 3,000 jobs to this Valley city (AzCentral, Feb 28)
• Insights from a 3 year project on climate anxiety (Substack, Feb 28)
• Extreme Heat Tied to Preterm Birth, but ‘Greenness’ Helps (MedPage Today, Feb 26)
• Tackling Climate Change: Health Care Professionals Can Do More by Using Less (Commonwealth Fund, Feb 23)
• The water from leaky pipes in Phoenix could supply a small city, but there’s no cheap fix (AZCentral, Feb 23)

Thank you for joining us in making a healthier planet today!