Last fall, PHI’s Center for Climate Change & Health funded three community organizations to undertake pilot projects aimed making the climate change-health connection, on the ground in their communities. In June the three Creating a Climate for Health pilot project grant recipients met with us in Oakland to share what they are discovering about connecting climate change to people’s everyday experiences.

The Public Health Institute and the Center for Climate Change and Health today released a statement applauding the Environmental Protection Agency’s move to regulate carbon emissions from existing US power plants with proposed emissions standards.

Monday night, 31 U.S. Senators staged an all-night “talkathon” (hashtagged #Up4Climate) to urge their colleagues in Congress to begin, in earnest, to address climate change. Their key points: Action is critical, the scientific consensus is clear, the window of opportunity is closing, and denial won’t keep climate change from wreaking untold harm on U.S. communities.