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Resources Available for National Food Safety Month 2015
This post originally ran on NACCHO’s Healthy People, Healthy Places blog. For more environmental health news and information, visit...
Sep 17, 2015 | Mary Hodges
White House and EPA Release Final Clean Power Plan
On Monday, August 3, President Barack Obama and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released the Clean Power Plan, which...
Aug 04, 2015 | Mary Hodges
What to Know about Summer Weather and Lyme Disease
This post originally ran on NACCHO’s Healthy People, Healthy Places blog. For more environmental health and infectious disease news...
Jul 08, 2015 | Guest Author
White House Hosts Summit on Climate Change and Health
On June 23, NACCHO Executive Director LaMar Hasbrouck, MD, MPH, joined hundreds of attendees at the White House Summit on Climate...
Jun 25, 2015 | Guest Author
How Local Health Departments Utilize PHEP Funding When Preparing For and Responding...
Since 2002, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) grant has provided...
Jun 24, 2015 | Nicole Dunifon
Preparing Communities for Summer Weather Threats
With the sunshine and warm weather that summertime brings, comes severe heat and storms. Many communities in the southern United...
Jun 18, 2015 | Stella Bartholet
2015 Preparedness Summit Begins With Opening Plenary on Emerging Threats
The 2015 Preparedness Summit began on Tuesday, April 14, with an opening plenary by Mike Walker, Senior Consultant at the Naval...
Apr 15, 2015 | Mary Hodges
White House Fact Sheet Details Actions to Protect Communities from the Impacts of...
A new White House fact sheet released as part of National Public Health Week outlines a series of actions the Obama administration is...
Apr 08, 2015 | Katie Regan
NACCHO Case Study Examines the Legalities of Fracking Bans
“Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, et al. v. City of Longmont: A Stymie to Local Fracking Bans or Just the...
Jan 20, 2015 | Katie Regan
Resources Available for National Food Safety Month 2015This post originally ran on NACCHO’s Healthy People, Healthy Places blog. For more environmental health news and information, visit http://essentialelements.naccho.org/. By Katie Regan, Communications Specialist, NACCHO For much of the general public, the local health department is the place that inspects restaurants and assigns letter grades based on cleanliness. In reality, of course, the... Sep 17, 2015 | Mary Hodges |
White House and EPA Release Final Clean Power PlanOn Monday, August 3, President Barack Obama and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released the Clean Power Plan, which establishes national standards to reduce carbon emissions from power plants. The plan would cut U.S. carbon pollution from the power sector by 32 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. Additional reductions will come from pollutants that can […] Aug 04, 2015 | Mary Hodges |
What to Know about Summer Weather and Lyme DiseaseThis post originally ran on NACCHO’s Healthy People, Healthy Places blog. For more environmental health and infectious disease news and information, visit Jul 08, 2015 | Guest Author |
White House Hosts Summit on Climate Change and HealthOn June 23, NACCHO Executive Director LaMar Hasbrouck, MD, MPH, joined hundreds of attendees at the White House Summit on Climate Change and Health. Speakers at the event included Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy, and Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response Nicole Lurie, in addition to other administration officials […] Jun 25, 2015 | Guest Author |
How Local Health Departments Utilize PHEP Funding When Preparing For and Responding to a Public Health EmergencySince 2002, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) grant has provided support to public health departments across the nation, allowing them to build and strengthen their ability to respond to public health threats. At the local level, this investment has enabled local health departments (LHDs) and their partners […] Jun 24, 2015 | Nicole Dunifon |
Preparing Communities for Summer Weather ThreatsWith the sunshine and warm weather that summertime brings, comes severe heat and storms. Many communities in the southern United States are already experiencing such adverse conditions, with devastating outcomes. On May 24, heavy rainfall and destructive floods hit Texas and Oklahoma, resulting in hundreds of damaged homes, 28 deaths, and 11 people missing. The […] Jun 18, 2015 | Stella Bartholet |
2015 Preparedness Summit Begins With Opening Plenary on Emerging ThreatsThe 2015 Preparedness Summit began on Tuesday, April 14, with an opening plenary by Mike Walker, Senior Consultant at the Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for Homeland Defense and Security. Walker’s presentation focused on emerging threats that could have an extreme impact on the public health infrastructure of the United States and beyond. Walker noted the […] Apr 15, 2015 | Mary Hodges |
White House Fact Sheet Details Actions to Protect Communities from the Impacts of Climate ChangeA new White House fact sheet released as part of National Public Health Week outlines a series of actions the Obama administration is undertaking to better understand, communicate, and reduce the health impacts of climate change. These actions include: Convening stakeholders: The White House this week is holding a series of meetings with health and medical […] Apr 08, 2015 | Katie Regan |
NACCHO Case Study Examines the Legalities of Fracking Bans“Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, et al. v. City of Longmont: A Stymie to Local Fracking Bans or Just the Beginning?” is a new NACCHO case study that examines the legalities of the hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” ban issued in Longmont, CO, in 2012. The case study helps local health departments better understand state […] Jan 20, 2015 | Katie Regan |
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