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APHA Urges Senate to Oppose Effort to Overturn EPA's Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding

Published in Physician Law Weekly, March 17th, 2010

The American Public Health Association yesterday joined a dozen leading health organizations in urging the U.S. Senate to oppose a resolution introduced by Sen. Lisa Murkowski to overturn or block the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's finding for six greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change.

In a letter to senators, the organizations wrote, "Given the serious public health implications of increasing greenhouse gas concentrations, we believe overturning EPA's endangerment finding is bad public health policy." The finding, announced in December in response to a 2007 Supreme Court ruling, enables EPA to reduce greenhouse gas emissions under the federal Clean...

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