White House Touts Climate, Health Impact Study To Help Justify GHG Cuts

摘要

The White House is highlighting its major new draft study and other data showing a range of adverse public health impacts from climate change as a tool to spur local adaptation efforts and to bolster the political justification for its broader suite of regulations to curb greenhouse gases (GHGs) that cause climate change. During an April 7 press call, White House climate advisor Brian Deese said the study'and other actions come "in the context of our larger push with our Climate Action Plan to take a set of aggressive actions to try to reduce carbon pollution and get ahead of this problem. That, for us, is animated importantly by these health impacts."