First-Ever Global Nursing Curriculum Assessment Survey: Climate Education in Nursing Schools

Your Input Matters! This survey, led by the Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education (GCCHE), is the first worldwide effort to evaluate how nursing schools are preparing nurses to handle the health effects of climate change. Nurses are trusted frontline providers. Your insights will directly influence an annual Lancet Countdown indicator, shaping how future nurses are trained to respond to our changing climate.

Who Should Participate?

• Nursing faculty
• Curriculum leaders
• Climate health champions in nursing education
• Public health and global health nurses involved in teaching

SURVEY

Action: Tell Congress to Fight for a Safe Climate

Ensuring clean air, water, and a healthy climate is so crucial for everyone. Agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Department of Energy (DOE), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) are doing critical work to reduce pollution, fight the climate crisis, provide cleaner and affordable energy, and help communities prepare for and recover from extreme weather. To sustain this vital work, these agencies require the appropriate funding and staffing.

That’s why it's so essential for Congress to support these agencies by providing adequate funding and resources, and to make sure the administration follows the law by using funds as intended. When Congress empowers and supports these agencies and their dedicated staff, they can continue their mission of protecting everyone in the U.S. and future generations, helping us all live safer, healthier lives. Tell Congress to Fight for a Safe Climate.

Send Congress A letter

What We Are Reading & Listening to Now

• Microplastics are everywhere. You can do one simple thing to avoid them (MSN)
• Exposure to commonly used chemical tied to Parkinson’s Disease (Medscape)
• As electricity bills rise, candidates in both parties blame data centers (SEMAFOR)
• Reductions in Respiratory Hospital Visits after a Coal Coking Plant Closure: A Natural Experiment (Am J Respir Crit Care Med)
• Warming Worries of a Once-Doubtful Climate Scientist (The Climate Brink)
• AZ rule that prevents utility shut-offs ends Oct. 15. (KJZZ)

Webinars & Events

• October 21^st: 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm (AZ): AzNA Health & Climate Workgroup Meeting Zoom Link
• October 22^nd: 12 pm (ET): The Power of Nurses: Driving Climate Solutions at COP30 and Beyond Register
• November 5^th: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm (AZ): STAT Extreme Weather & Health Action Network Series (virtual) Register
• November 19^th: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm (MST): Promoting Climate Action through Quality and Safety Activities Register
• November 19^th: 9:00 am – 4:30 pm (AZ): Save the Date: 3^rd Annual Arizona Heat Summit
• December 3^rd: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm (AZ): STAT Extreme Weather & Health Action Network Series (virtual) Register

   

   

   

  Recordings

• September 4^th: Leveraging Data to Drive Effective Heat Protection Policies (webinar) Recording
• May-July: APHA three-part podcast series on extreme heat Recording
• New: Podcast: Healthy Climate America. New issues each week.Here
• Online: Extreme Heat & Health: Strategies for Prevention and Action (3 CEs) Link
• July 29^th: EPC Environmental Justice Poll Briefing Recording
• New: July 9^th: Keeping It Cool: Heat Preparedness Resources for Community Health Centers Recording
• June 2^nd: Global Heat Action Day: Local Solutions to Protect Communities Recording
• The Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health: 2024 Communication Training Sessions Recordings
• May 14^th: Mitigating Heat-Related Health Risks in Arizona Recording
• March 6^th: Tap Water Affordability in Arizona Recording
• February 5^th: Region 9 Pacific Southwest Center for Emergency Public Health: Heat Surveillance, Preparedness Strategies and Community Response Webinar featuring LA County and Maricopa County Recording
• Recording: Webinar with author and Pediatrician Debra Hendrickson on her new book The Air They Breathe: A Pediatrician on the Front Lines of Climate Change. Recording.
• Recording from December 10^th’s webinar: Perspectives on Plastic Lifecycle Series: Plastics Use and Demand Recording.
• Recording from December 11^th’s webinar:A panel discussion on Extreme Weather in Arizona Recording.
• Recording from 3^rd Annual National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS) National Meeting 2024 Here

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

Action: Tell Congress to Fight for a Safe Climate

Ensuring clean air, water, and a healthy climate is so crucial for everyone. Agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Department of Energy (DOE), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) are doing critical work to reduce pollution, fight the climate crisis, provide cleaner and affordable energy, and help communities prepare for and recover from extreme weather. To sustain this vital work, these agencies require the appropriate funding and staffing.

That’s why it's so essential for Congress to support these agencies by providing adequate funding and resources, and to make sure the administration follows the law by using funds as intended. When Congress empowers and supports these agencies and their dedicated staff, they can continue their mission of protecting everyone in the U.S. and future generations, helping us all live safer, healthier lives. Tell Congress to Fight for a Safe Climate.

Send Congress A letter

Climate Week News

Here are highlight videos from Climate Week last week, brought to you by Inside Climate unless noted otherwise.

• Is AI Throwing Climate Change Under the Bus? Read about clean energy under the Trump administration and what communities think when data centers move in next door, and is AI good or bad for climate change.
• The Steep Environmental Costs of China’s Massive Global Development. The impact of China’s initiatives in developing countries.
• Can Pollution from Industrial Animal Agriculture be Controlled? Most of the meat eaten in the US comes from large animal feeding operations, also known as CAFOs. These industrial facilities house thousands of animals in close quarters, generating tremendous amounts of manure, climate-polluting methane and a host of issues for neighbors.
• A Tumultuous Moment for Public Lands and All Who Rely on Them. Some 640 million acres of the United States are owned by the federal government for the benefit of the people. These public lands, widely loved by Americans, are being pulled in multiple directions over questions of who gets access, how the land is used and managed, and what values should guide those choices.
• Disinformation on Steroids: Climate Science Takes It on the Chin. Did you hear the one about the space lasers starting forest fires? Fringe conspiracy theories like this still swirl in certain parts of the internet. But some climate change disinformation is harder to spot—it’s subtle, sophisticated and circulated by trusted sources. 
• Climate Week: Catalyzing Climate and Health Research Impact and Application: National AcademY of Medicine (NAM) Recording.

What We Are Reading & Listening to Now

• Trend report suggests sustainability is still important to hospital leaders (heathcare brew)
• Heat Kills, But That’s Not the End of It (azcentral)
• As Heat-related hospital visits rise, AZ’s focus is on deaths and quick fixes (azcentral)
• 10^th Annual Children’s Environmental Health Day October 9^th https://cehday.org/ (CEHday)
• Southwest Center on Resilience for Climate Change & Health (SCORCH) Newsletter: Building Climate Resilience (UofA)
• Climate Change and Workplace Heat Stress: Technical Report and Guidance (WMO and WHO)
• How to care for your pets sustainably (Sierra Club)
• Fossil Fuels and Fossilized Minds (Paul Krugman)

ANHE Fellowship Application Open

The Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments (ANHE) is accepting applications for its fourth cohort of the Environmental Health Nurse Fellowship Program. For more information and the application process, please visit this link.

Webinars & Events

• October 7^th: 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm (AZ): Sierra Club’s Virtual Volunteer Advocacy Workshop in preparation for the 2026 State Legislative Session(Register)
• October 8^th: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm (MST): A Pediatrician’s Perspective on Climate Impacts Register
• October 9^th: 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm (EDT): Extreme Heat + Children’s Health: Strategies for Prevention and Action: A ive, virtual training! Register
• October 10^th: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm (AZ): Healing the Planet, Healing Ourselves: Exploring Equitable Approaches to Mental Health Register
• October 16^th: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm (AZ): STAT Extreme Weather & Health Action Network Series (virtual) Register
• October 16^th 2:00 pm – 3:15 pm (ET): Alliance for Heat Resilience and Health Heat Listening Session Register
• October 22^nd: 12 pm (ET): The Power of Nurses: Driving Climate Solutions at COP30 and Beyond Register
• November 5^th: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm (AZ): STAT Extreme Weather & Health Action Network Series (virtual) Register
• November 19^th: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm (MST): Promoting Climate Action through Quality and Safety Activities Register
• November 19^th: 9:00 am – 4:30 pm (AZ): Save the Date: 3^rd Annual Arizona Heat Summit
• December 3^rd: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm (AZ): STAT Extreme Weather & Health Action Network Series (virtual) Register

   

   

   

  Recordings

• September 4^th: Leveraging Data to Drive Effective Heat Protection Policies (webinar) Recording
• May-July: APHA three-part podcast series on extreme heat Recording
• New: Podcast: Healthy Climate America. New issues each week.Here
• Online: Extreme Heat & Health: Strategies for Prevention and Action (3 CEs) Link
• July 29^th: EPC Environmental Justice Poll Briefing Recording
• New: July 9^th: Keeping It Cool: Heat Preparedness Resources for Community Health Centers Recording
• June 2^nd: Global Heat Action Day: Local Solutions to Protect Communities Recording
• The Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health: 2024 Communication Training Sessions Recordings
• May 14^th: Mitigating Heat-Related Health Risks in Arizona Recording
• March 6^th: Tap Water Affordability in Arizona Recording
• February 5^th: Region 9 Pacific Southwest Center for Emergency Public Health: Heat Surveillance, Preparedness Strategies and Community Response Webinar featuring LA County and Maricopa County Recording
• Recording: Webinar with author and Pediatrician Debra Hendrickson on her new book The Air They Breathe: A Pediatrician on the Front Lines of Climate Change. Recording.
• Recording from December 10^th’s webinar: Perspectives on Plastic Lifecycle Series: Plastics Use and Demand Recording.
• Recording from December 11^th’s webinar:A panel discussion on Extreme Weather in Arizona Recording.
• Recording from 3^rd Annual National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS) National Meeting 2024 Here

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

Thank you for visiting us at the AzNA Convention

Thank you to all the wonderful nurses we met at the convention and who stopped by to say hello, pick up a Climate Rx badge, or sign up for our workgroup. Pat VanMaanen spoke about Heat and its impact on Health.  If you missed signing up to get our updates and meeting notices, you can do it here.

New Report: Effects of Human-Caused Greenhouse Gas Emissions on US Climate, Health, and Welfare

The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NAM) released a consensus Study Report on September 17^th. The Committee was charged to review and summarize the changes in evidence since the 2009 Endangerment Findings were released by the EPA. The NAM Committee presented their findings yesterday in a webinar following the report’s release. In this webinar they succinctly stated their approach, provided a summary of their findings and made the following statement:

“The EPA’s 2009 findings that the human-caused emissions of greenhouse gases threaten human health and welfare was accurate, has stood the test of time, and is now reinforced by even stronger evidence”

These findings and work from the NAM should give us confidence in stating to the EPA that the 2009 Endangerment Findings are good to stand and no changes are needed, including rescinding them.

Action Alert: Endangerment Finding

By September 22^nd

Repealing the endangerment finding would disregard the overwhelming scientific consensus and exacerbate the health impacts we are already experiencing from climate change.

So far, over 103,000 people have submitted comments, and more than 600 have testified on the proposal to repeal the EPA’s Endangerment Finding, the key ruling that recognized greenhouse gases as a threat to public health and welfare.  

Under docket EPA-HQ-OAR-2025-0194, titled “Reconsideration of 2009 Endangerment Finding and Greenhouse Gas Vehicle Standards,” the EPA is considering whether to weaken those protections. Hundreds of Americans, including scientists, health professionals, faith leaders, and community advocates, have voiced strong opposition.

We urge all nurses to voice their opposition to rescinding this essential safeguard.

TAKE ACTION

Submit Your Comments

OPTION 1:Customize ECA’s messagebycutting and pasting it into thedocket form.  (They do the work to submit it for you).

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Please share this with others and ask them to follow your lead and act.

What We Are Reading & Listening to Now

• Podcast: Keeping Cool in One of America’s Hottest Cities (Public Health On Call)
• Air Pollution Triggers forms of dementia, research suggests (The Guardian) Article (Science)
• The health risks from plastics almost nobody knows about (WashPost)
• Rising temperatures increase added sugar intake disproportionately in disadvantaged groups in the USA (Nature)
• Advancing and integrating climate and health policy in the US: Insights from national policy stakeholders (The Journal of Climate Change and Health)
• Childhood Heat Risk is Rising ( Climate Central)
• Climate Activists Cite Health Hazards in Bid to Stop Unleasing of Fossil Fuels (KFF Health News)

Join Us: Webinars & Events

• September 24^th: 12 pm (ET): Advancing Climate & Health Equite – The Role of Nurses Ahead of COP30 Register
• October 8^th: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm (MST): A Pediatrician’s Perspective on Climate Impacts Register
• October 9^th: 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm (EDT): Extreme Heat + Children’s Health: Strategies for Prevention and Action: A ive, virtual training! Register
• October 16^th 2:00 pm – 3:15 pm (ET): Alliance for Heat Resilience and Health Heat Listening Session Register
• October 22^nd: 12 pm (ET): The Power of Nurses: Driving Climate Solutions at COP30 and Beyond Register
• November 19^th: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm (MST): Promoting Climate Action through Quality and Safety Activities Register

   

  Join the ANHE West Regional Forum Today!

   

  Don’t forget to join the ANHE Regional Forums! Over 700 ANHE members in Arizona, California, and Nevada are committed to ensuring access to healthy food, water, air, and soil for all communities. The Regional Forums will host events, share information about current developments, and create opportunities for nurses to communicate with their legislators and with one another regarding issues in environmental health.

  Join Today

   

  Recordings

• Podcast: Healthy Climate America. New issues each week.Here
• Online: Extreme Heat & Health: Strategies for Prevention and Action (3 CEs) Link
• July 29^th: EPC Environmental Justice Poll Briefing Recording
• June 2^nd: Global Heat Action Day: Local Solutions to Protect Communities Recording
• The Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health: 2024 Communication Training Sessions Recordings
• May 14^th: Mitigating Heat-Related Health Risks in Arizona Recording
• March 6^th: Tap Water Affordability in Arizona Recording
• February 5^th: Region 9 Pacific Southwest Center for Emergency Public Health: Heat Surveillance, Preparedness Strategies and Community Response Webinar featuring LA County and Maricopa County Recording
• Recording: Webinar with author and Pediatrician Debra Hendrickson on her new book The Air They Breathe: A Pediatrician on the Front Lines of Climate Change. Recording.
• Recording from December 10^th’s webinar: Perspectives on Plastic Lifecycle Series: Plastics Use and Demand Recording.
• Recording from December 11^th’s webinar:A panel discussion on Extreme Weather in Arizona Recording.
• Recording from 3^rd Annual National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS) National Meeting 2024 Here

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

We Want to Hear from You

The Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments (ANHE) and the Society of Nurse Scientists, Innovators, Entrepreneurs & Leaders (SONSIEL) are launching a digital storytelling campaign to highlight the powerful and diverse ways nurses are already leading on climate and health. Nurses are promoting climate action every day—whether at the bedside, in the classroom, or in the boardroom. From cutting waste in clinics to advocating for healthy housing, nurses are protecting health and the planet in meaningful ways.

By naming and sharing what we’re doing, we connect our daily actions to the global movement for health and climate solutions—amplifying nurses’ voices.

We want to hear from you. Share how you are leading on climate and health—whether through patient education, policy advocacy, innovation, or sustainability initiatives. Your story could inspire others and strengthen the call for bold action at COP30.Learn more andsubmit your videotoday!

Deadlines Approaching: Your Rush Hour Commute Will Get Longer

Several clean energy policies are expiring at the end of September. The Trump Administration and Congress are cutting or not renewing several clean energy policies that will impact air quality and commutes.

EV HOV Lane Use Expiration

The exemption that allows single-occupant all-electric vehicles to use HOV lanes expires September 30^th, 2025.  Congress has not passed any law to extend or change this deadline. 

Why this matters – Electric Vehicle (EV) adoption is still in a crucial growth phase, and offering this perk helps encourage clean transportation. Ending HOV lane access for EVs sends a mixed message—one where we tell drivers we want electrification, but at the same time, we take away a program that costs nothing and supports that goal. Removing this free perk pushes single-occupant EVs into regular traffic lanes, which can increase congestion and lengthen commutes. This, in turn, raises fuel consumption, costing gas-powered drivers more and increasing emissions. In urban areas of Arizona, this results in more air pollution and more high-ozone days, which cause even hotter summer days as ozone and heat intensify.

EV Tax Credits

If you live in the United States and are in the market to buy or lease an electric vehicle, there’s a time-sensitive opportunity for you. The federal electric vehicle tax credit is set to expire on September 30, 2025. The credit provides up to $7,500 on a new qualifying EV and $4,000 for a used one, and Kiplinger has put together a comprehensive article that details eligibility requirements, income limits, qualifying vehicles, and more. If this is relevant to you, don't miss the chance: get it done this week!

Action Alert: Endangerment Finding

By September 22nd

What We Are Reading & Listening to Now

• Back to school, forward for climate (Katharine Hayhoe)
• Burns everywhere: AZ teen collapses from heatstroke on walk home from school (azcentral)
• Putting Drinking Water First: The Case for Sustained and Equitable Federal Water Infrastructure Investment (Clean Water Action)
• Do wildfires pose serious risks to human health (NAM)
• Air pollution from oil and gas causes 90,000 premature US deaths each year (The Guardian)
• As farmworkers face longer, hotter harvest seasons, their risk of heat-related illness grows (WHYY)

Join Us: Webinars & Events

• September 9^th: 9:00 am or 7:00 pm (ET): Let’s Teach Planetary Health Webinar (Register)
• September 12^th: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm (AZ): Transforming Health Through Environmental Justice and Organizing Register
• September 17^th: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm (MST): Reducing Waste Rethinking Care: An Approach to Sustainability in the OR Register
• September 24^th: 12 pm (ET): Advancing Climate & Health Equite – The Role of Nurses Ahead of COP30 Register
• October 8^th: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm (MST): A Pediatrician’s Perspective on Climate Impacts Register
• October 16^th 2:00 pm – 3:15 pm (ET): Alliance for Heat Resilience and Health Heat Listening Session Register
• October 22^nd: 12 pm (ET): The Power of Nurses: Driving Climate Solutions at COP30 and Beyond Register
• November 19^th: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm (MST): Promoting Climate Action through Quality and Safety Activities Register

   

  Join the ANHE West Regional Forum Today!

   

  Don’t forget to join the ANHE Regional Forums! Over 700 ANHE members in Arizona, California, and Nevada are committed to ensuring access to healthy food, water, air, and soil for all communities. The Regional Forums will host events, share information about current developments, and create opportunities for nurses to communicate with their legislators and with one another regarding issues in environmental health.

  Join Today

   

  Recordings

• Podcast: Healthy Climate America. New issues each week.Here
• Online: Extreme Heat & Health: Strategies for Prevention and Action (3 CEs) Link
• July 29^th: EPC Environmental Justice Poll Briefing Recording
• June 2^nd: Global Heat Action Day: Local Solutions to Protect Communities Recording
• The Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health: 2024 Communication Training Sessions Recordings
• May 14^th: Mitigating Heat-Related Health Risks in Arizona Recording
• March 6^th: Tap Water Affordability in Arizona Recording
• February 5^th: Region 9 Pacific Southwest Center for Emergency Public Health: Heat Surveillance, Preparedness Strategies and Community Response Webinar featuring LA County and Maricopa County Recording
• Recording: Webinar with author and Pediatrician Debra Hendrickson on her new book The Air They Breathe: A Pediatrician on the Front Lines of Climate Change. Recording.
• Recording from December 10^th’s webinar: Perspectives on Plastic Lifecycle Series: Plastics Use and Demand Recording.
• Recording from December 11^th’s webinar:A panel discussion on Extreme Weather in Arizona Recording.
• Recording from 3^rd Annual National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS) National Meeting 2024 Here

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

Sign On Request

Tell Congress to Fight for a Safe Climate

Federal Agencies like the EPA, NOAA, FEMA, NASA, and the National Weather Service help communities prepare for and recover from climate disasters, perform critical research and science, and have the tools and authority to limit the pollution that is sickening Americans and driving dangerous extreme weather.

As it considers FY2026 appropriations legislation, Congress must ensure agencies that carry out this critical work are fully funded, fully staffed, and protected from political interference.

Sign this petition to call on Congress to stand for a safe climate.

Sign Here

What We Are Reading & Listening to Now

• Scientists use modeling track where metro Phoenix ozone pollution actually comes from (KJZZ)
• You Can See The Wildfire Smoke, But Is It Harming Your Health? (Forbes)
• Groceries or AC? (azcentral)
• OSHA rule designed to protect workers from extreme heat is in jeopardy (azcentral)
• Preventing Heat-Related Illness (BlueGreen Alliance)

Join Us: Webinars & Events

• September 2^nd: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm (AZ): Making Your Voice Heard: Influencing Decision-Making in Likely and Unlikely Places Register
• September 17^th: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm (MST): Reducing Waste Rethinking Care: An Approach to Sustainability in the OR Register
• October 8^th: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm (MST): A Pediatricians Perspective on Climate Impacts Register
• November 19^th: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm (MST): Promoting Climate Action through Quality and Safety Activities Register

   

  Join the ANHE West Regional Forum Today!

   

  Don’t forget to join the ANHE Regional Forums! Over 700 ANHE members in Arizona, California, and Nevada are committed to ensuring access to healthy food, water, air, and soil for all communities. The Regional Forums will host events, share information about current developments, and create opportunities for nurses to communicate with their legislators and with one another regarding issues in environmental health.

  Join Today

   

  Recordings

• July 29^th: EPC Environmental Justice Poll Briefing Recording
• June 2^nd: Global Heat Action Day: Local Solutions to Protect Communities Recording
• The Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health: 2024 Communication Training Sessions Recordings
• May 14^th: Mitigating Heat-Related Health Risks in Arizona Recording
• March 6^th: Tap Water Affordability in Arizona Recording
• February 5^th: Region 9 Pacific Southwest Center for Emergency Public Health: Heat Surveillance, Preparedness Strategies and Community Response Webinar featuring LA County and Maricopa County Recording
• Recording: Webinar with author and Pediatrician Debra Hendrickson on her new book The Air They Breathe: A Pediatrician on the Front Lines of Climate Change. Recording.
• Recording from December 10^th’s webinar: Perspectives on Plastic Lifecycle Series: Plastics Use and Demand Recording.
• Recording from December 11^th’s webinar:A panel discussion on Extreme Weather in Arizona Recording.
• Recording from 3^rd Annual National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS) National Meeting 2024 Here

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