• This year’s APHA Annual Meeting has no less than 10 sessions devoted to climate change and health. 
• Two session highlights for those seeking greater involvement:

• APHA has organized a session Wednesday morning to assist NIEHS with developing a revived research agenda for climate change and health.
• Two sessions on Tuesday afternoon will be devoted to organizing the environmental health and public health nursing communities, respectively, on climate change related activities.

• In July, EPA released an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) on regulation greenhouse gases via the Clean Air Act.  The EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson took the highly unusual step of publicly releasing multiple letters from heads of other federal government agencies that essentially deny EPA's legitimacy as a scientific organization and its authority to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.  Johnson himself then agrees with the Secretaries of Energy, Transportation, etc. that EPA shouldn't regulate GHG's under the CAA.  The ANPR contains a technical review of climate change impacts that provides ample evidence of why climate change is a threat to health.  The Web site for the ANPR and support documents is:  http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/anpr.html.  All members are encouraged to review the ANPR and submit comments to some of the hundreds of questions posed by EPA that related to health and climate change.
• For more updates on climate change and health policy developments, see www.edf.org .

The Climate Committee supports the Section and APHA in implementing the recommendations of APHA’s policy on climate change and health.  This includes producing and promoting sessions on climate change and health at the Annual Meeting, assisting the organization in developing legislative language that helps meet public health goals in this area, and helping to educate member’s communities and local officials.  Anyone interested in participating on the Climate Committee, should contact John Balbus at jbalbus@edf.org.