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The Global Climate and Health Alliance calls for a universal climate agreement that prioritizes health, urging governments to phase out coal and fossil fuel subsidies while integrating health impact assessments into national climate planning. The document highlights that tackling climate change is a major global health opportunity, with the potential to prevent millions of premature deaths through emissions reductions and the transition to renewable energy.

Climate change poses a significant threat to public health in Canada, with costs expected to increase as impacts intensify. Vulnerability is driven by social determinants—exposure, sensitivity, and capacity to adapt—meaning the impacts will not be felt equally across the population. Projected annual costs by the end of the century vary by emissions scenario, with heat-related productivity losses and deaths representing major financial burdens. Effective adaptation requires both treating immediate symptoms through emergency response and addressing root causes like economic inequity and food insecurity.

The Canadian Climate Institute introduces a framework to track clean growth through 11 indicators categorized into goals, catalysts, and foundations. While all provinces decoupled GDP from GHG emissions between 2005 and 2018, the report identifies significant data gaps and uneven progress in technology adoption and regional employment risks. It recommends integrated government accountabilities and improved data connectivity to support a low-carbon transition.

The document evaluates three potential energy systems for Canada's transition to carbon neutrality: one based on fossil fuels with negative emissions, one based on second-generation biofuels, and one based on electrification and hydrogen. It identifies that while Canada possesses assets like land and infrastructure, the choice of system depends on factors such as technological viability, social justice, and international market trends.

The document highlights the environmental and safety risks associated with the global trade of used vehicles, noting that between 2015 and 2018, 14 million light used vehicles were exported, with 80% going to low- and middle-income countries and over half to Africa. It asserts that vehicles with weak import regulations correlate with higher traffic mortality rates and contribute significantly to urban air pollution through PM2.5 and NOx emissions. The text calls for developed nations to stop exporting vehicles that fail environmental and safety inspections and for importing nations to adopt stricter quality standards to facilitate the acquisition of cleaner, safer fleets, including hybrid and electric options.

The document argues that climate change is the biggest health threat of the 21st century and that health professionals are uniquely positioned as trusted voices to build public support for climate action. It provides a framework for communicating these risks and benefits, emphasizing simple, human-centric messaging over technical jargon or alarmist language. The toolkit outlines specific health risks—such as air pollution, heatwaves, and food insecurity—and highlights the 'win-win' nature of climate solutions, noting that every dollar spent on reducing emissions saves approximately $2 in health costs.

The report, produced by a consortium of medical societies, alerts the public and policymakers that climate change is already causing direct and indirect health harms across the United States. It identifies vulnerable populations, such as children and the elderly, and details how extreme heat, weather events, air pollution, and the spread of infectious diseases impact public health. The document advocates for the acceleration of a transition to clean renewable energy as the most critical action to protect health and provide immediate co-benefits like improved air and water quality.

A survey of 10,660 UK residents reveals high levels of climate change awareness, with 86% believing it is happening and 75% attributing it to human activity. While 80% of respondents express worry about climate change and 82% support renewable energy, personal risk perception is lower than concern for future generations. The report also details local environmental experiences, noting that 68% of respondents experienced at least one environmental problem in the past year, most notably severe storms and flooding.

The document outlines a binary coding system (0=absent, 1=present) to categorize survey responses based on the populations identified as vulnerable to fossil fuel-related air pollution. It defines 22 distinct categories, ranging from demographic groups like 'BABIES/VERY YOUNG' and 'SENIORS' to socio-economic groups such as 'POOR/LOW INCOME' and 'UNINSURED/LIMITED HEALTHCARE'. It also specifies distinctions between general and specific locations, such as 'CITY DWELLERS' versus 'SPECIFIC REGION', and provides explicit examples of terms that trigger each code to ensure consistency in content analysis.

The document provides reliability test results for two content analysis categories: perceived health problems and perceived vulnerable populations resulting from air pollution. It utilizes percent agreement and Krippendorff's alpha, noting that low alpha values in some categories are due to low incidence of those categories in the data.

Black carbon (BC), or soot, is a potent short-lived climate pollutant resulting from incomplete combustion of fossil fuels and biomass. It causes significant respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, contributing to millions of excess deaths annually, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Economically, BC exposure and reliance on unclean cooking fuels cause trillions of dollars in losses. Climatically, BC warms the atmosphere by absorbing solar energy and accelerates ice melt in the Arctic and Himalayas by reducing albedo. The report argues that reducing BC emissions—especially through clean cooking fuels in sub-Saharan Africa and transportation improvements in urban areas—would prevent millions of premature deaths, reduce deforestation, and help limit global warming to 1.5°C.

The document presents a series of quotes from representatives of Earthjustice, the Montana Sierra Club, and local community groups opposing proposed legislative changes to coal leasing. The critics argue that the provisions would reduce royalty rates for the government, fast-track permits by removing public comment opportunities, and provide a 'giveaway' to the coal industry while exacerbating water pollution, air pollution, and public health risks, particularly in Montana.

The report details the environmental and public health impacts of waste incinerators in New Jersey, specifically highlighting how these facilities are located in low-income communities of color. It provides data on air pollution emissions and permit violations, criticizes the use of renewable energy subsidies for incineration, and proposes a policy framework to phase out incinerators in favor of zero-waste strategies.

Earthjustice argues that hydraulic fracturing (fracking) poses grave and irreversible risks to human health and the environment, citing extensive evidence from the United States. The organization contends that the Government of Mendoza's Decree No. 248/18 was issued without sufficient technical research or baseline data, violating the precautionary principle. Earthjustice requests the court to nullify the decree and suspend fracking activities until comprehensive scientific studies on air pollution, water contamination, radioactive waste, and induced seismicity are conducted.

The report details how coal ash, particularly fly ash, contains toxic metals and radioactive materials that pose severe health risks when inhaled as fugitive dust. It highlights the lack of federal regulations for dust control at landfills and ponds, noting that state-level requirements are often inadequate. The document provides case studies of impacted communities, including the Moapa River Indian Reservation and Uniontown, Alabama, and calls for a transition to renewable energy and the establishment of enforceable federal standards to mitigate these hazards.

The document describes coal ash as a toxic industrial waste stream containing carcinogens and neurotoxins that contaminate air, soil, and water when improperly managed. It evaluates various disposal methods, identifying unlined surface impoundments as the most hazardous and encapsulated reuse in concrete or gypsum as the safest. The guide outlines specific technical standards for landfills and ponds—including impermeable liners, groundwater monitoring, and siting prohibitions—and argues for enforceable, site-specific permits and financial assurance to ensure long-term remediation.

The report details how coal ash, the second-largest industrial waste stream in the U.S., contains toxic heavy metals that leach into groundwater and surface water or become airborne as fugitive dust. It highlights the inadequacy of current state-level regulations and the failure of unlined disposal ponds, citing numerous 'damage cases' where communities have suffered from contaminated drinking water and ecological collapse. The authors advocate for a transition away from wet storage and unencapsulated reuse, calling for federal standards to protect susceptible populations, particularly children and low-income communities.

This fact sheet by Earthjustice opposes H.J. Res. 42, which seeks to overturn EPA regulations adopted in August 2010 to reduce mercury, soot, and other toxics from over 100 cement plants. The document emphasizes the severe developmental risks mercury poses to unborn babies and children, noting that the EPA's protections could prevent 2,500 premature deaths annually. It specifically identifies GCC of America, Inc. in Tijeras, New Mexico, as a source of mercury pollution and lists numerous New Mexico water bodies under fish consumption advisories due to mercury contamination.

The report details the environmental and public health impacts of waste incinerators in New Jersey, highlighting their disproportionate location in overburdened communities of color and low-income areas. It documents significant air permit violations and the receipt of millions in clean energy subsidies despite high emissions. The authors propose a shift toward a zero-waste hierarchy—emphasizing redesign, reduction, reuse, recycling, and composting—and recommend that New Jersey ban new incinerators and decommission existing ones by 2030.

The report details a long history of toxic pollution and regulatory non-compliance at the Quemetco secondary lead smelter in the City of Industry, California. It documents extensive lead, arsenic, and hexavalent chromium contamination in the air, soil, and water, affecting predominantly low-income and minority communities. The author argues that Quemetco has exploited a flawed regulatory system to avoid accountability and recommends that California regulators deny its permit renewals and expansion requests, ultimately shutting down the facility in favor of cleaner energy storage alternatives like lithium-ion batteries.