The Public Health Law Center’s Climate Justice Team works to support community-led efforts that improve the living environments of under-resourced communities who disproportionately bear the effects of climate change. We are dedicated to maintaining a deep knowledge of climate policies and legal strategies that promote health equity and the equitable distribution of the resources everyone needs to thrive. Please reach out to us at: climatejustice@mitchellhamline.edu.
The Public Health Law Center’s Climate Justice Team works to support community-led efforts that improve the living environments of under-resourced communities who disproportionately bear the effects of climate change. We are dedicated to maintaining a deep knowledge of climate policies and legal strategies that promote health equity and the equitable distribution of the resources everyone needs to thrive. Please reach out to us at: climatejustice@mitchellhamline.edu.
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Climate Justice Featured

Petition for Rulemaking to Electrify Public Housing

The 900,000 households living in federal public housing oftentime face conditions that pose health and safety risks, including indoor air pollution from fossil fuel appliances and other asthma triggers. The Public Health Law Center and 22 housing, public health, environmental justice, energy, and climate organizations filed a petition calling on the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to reduce these health harms through electrification upgrades.

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    Cooking with Smoke: How the Gas Industry Used Tobacco Tactics to Cover Up Harms from Gas Stoves

    This publication documents the intertwined paths of the tobacco and gas misinformation campaigns, and the similar health detriments of their products, concluding with ways state and local governments and public health advocates can come together to address the harms from indoor gas just as we have from indoor smoke.

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    The Tortured Arguments Department: Corporate Landlords’ Flimsy Challenge to Colorado Green-Buildings Policies

    In a recent post, Staff Attorney Daniel Carpenter-Gold discusses the the recent case Colorado Apartment Association v. Ryan.

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    What is Legal Technical Assistance?

    This resource shares examples of how the Public Health Law Center can provide legal technical assistance to improve public health across a community.

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