Air Pollution raises stroke risk for women under 65

This study says, “There is no ‘safe’ level of air pollution.” Research like this is why the AzNA Climate Change and Health Workgroup is so focused on education, advocacy, and efforts for nurses to mitigate the health harms of air pollution and other environmental factors that impact our health. Join us in this critical work. 

OSHA Proposed Rule Protecting Workers from Extreme Heat

The Occupational and Safety Health Administration (OSHA) estimates its proposed rule “Heat Injury Prevention in Outdoor and Indoor Work Settings,” will reduce heat-related injuries and deaths by 65 to 95 percent. The Network for Public Health Law issue brief summarizes the key provisions of the proposed rule, which is now open for public comment. 

For additional information including solutions for addressing extreme heat and a summary of federal, state, and local laws and policies used to protect workers from extreme heat or thwart protections for them, see Law and Policy Considerations for Workforce Protections from Extreme Heat.

Public comment on the OSHA Proposed Rule is open through December 30^th, in future issues of this newsletter, we will offer suggested language for submitting your own comment.  If you would like to take action now, here is the website where you start.

What We Are Reading & Listening to this Week

• Energy and Climate: Where do Harris and Trump stand? (AZ Mirror)
• Air Pollution and Parkinson Disease in a Population-Based Study (JAMA Network Open)
• Study: Over nearly half a billion years, Earth’s temperature has changed drastically, driven by carbon dioxide (Univ of Arizona)
• Health Impacts of climate-change related natural disasters on persons with disabilities in developing countries: A literature review (ScienceDirect)
• City protests solar farm, says it will ‘cannibalize’ (inMaricopa.com)
• All About the Clean School Bus Program (Electric School Bus Initiative)
• AZ doctor warns of extreme heat affecting medications (KJZZ)
• How to build an AC that will get the world through hotter summers (Wash Post)

Join Us

• October 15^th 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm: AzNA Climate Change & Health Workgroup October Zoom Meeting.Zoom Link.
• October 23^rd 8:30 am – 4:00 pm: 2024 Arizona Heat Summit Desert Willow Conference Center Phoenix Register
• March 1-4^th 2025: Our Planet, Our Health 2025 Climate Action Convention Washington DC Register

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