Here are five insights:
1. By 2030, climate change should cause 11,000 additional premature deaths in the United States.
2. Various U.S. medical organizations, including the American Public Health Association and American Academy of Pediatrics, filed an amicus brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals last week in support of the Clean Power Plan.
3. The Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan would cut carbon emissions from power plants by 32 percent by 2030.
4. Evidence links climate change to allergies, diarrheal disease, cardiovascular disease and respiratory illness.
5. The U.S. Supreme Court temporarily blocked the Clean Power Plan’s implementation in February so the federal appeals court had time to address challenges to the legislation. On June 2, the appeals court will hear oral arguments in West Virginia v. EPA, the Clean Power Plan case.
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