Happy Holidays

This is our last post for 2024; AzNA will be on break until the new year. We will be back in 2025 with more news and steps you can take to address climate impact on health. Until then, have a wonderful holiday season, and if you have not done so, please act on the historic OSHA Rule to protect workers from extreme heat danger. AzNA and ANA have already signed on supporting this critical and landmark rule to protect workers from extreme heat danger. Your action is required by December 30^th. Steps to action are below.

OSHA Rule to Protect Workers from Extreme Heat Dangers

Time to Act: Deadline December 30^th

We are looking for more nurses’ signatures. Can you help?  If you signed already, THANK YOU. Could you share this alert with five other nurses so we can collect more signatures and get the word out about the importance of passing this OSHA rule?  If you did not sign yet, please do so this week.  If you need more information about this rule, read our post from Nov 21st.

Sign In Support of the OSHA Rule

What We Are Reading & Listening to this Week

• Taxpayer Group Blasts Arizona Corporation Commission For Rubber Stamping Utilities’ Formula Rates (ADI)
• Arizona regulators rush historic vote on water and electric policies (12News)
• What to know about converting AZ wastewater to drinking water (ABC 15)
• ASU launches groundbreaking partnership to address water insecurity in AZ (ASU News)
• Formaldehyde causes more cancer than any other toxic air pollutant. Little is being done to curb the risk (CNN)
• EPA bans two cancer-causing chemicals used in everyday products (WashPost)
• Microplastics are in body organs and tissues (CNN)
• Avian Flu detected in Flagstaff wastewater (KNAU)
• Long-term exposure to air pollution linked to blood clots in veins that bring blood to the heart (NIH)

Join Us

• Recording from December 11^th’s webinar:A panel discussion on Extreme Weather in Arizona Recording
• January 21^st: 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm (AZ) Save the Date. AzNA Climate Change and Health Workgroup meeting
• January 22^nd: 10:00 am – 1:00 pm (AZ) Climate for Health Ambassador Training co-hosted by APHA and Climate for Health Register for this free training designed for nurses and other health care professionals.
• February 12^th: 8:30 am – 2:00 pm Sierra Club Environmental Day at the Capitol. Learn more about the day and register here.
• 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!