Science-based NGO Advocacy Organizations:

Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), Washington, D.C. Reports regarding Climate Change and health are available online (March 22, 2008): http://www.psr.org

• The medical and public health impacts of global warming: A factsheet. (2pp) (All references available at PSR: http://www.psr.org/site/PageServer?pagename=enviro_resources.
• Responsible actions to reduce climate change and energy use (4pp)
• Coal-fired power plants: Understanding the health costs of a dirty energy source (2pp and 14 ref)
• Fighting global warming: Ending our dependence on oil. (2pp with 16 ref)

Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), Washington, D.C. Environment & Health Resources: Air Pollution and Health; Children’s Environmental Health; Chronic Disease and the Environment; Global Warming, Energy and Health; Safe Drinking Water; Toxics and Health. Available online March 22, 2008: http://www.psr.org/site/PageServer?pagename=enviro_resources

Under heading: Global Warming, Energy and Health, a section titled: “Death by Degrees” provides state by state reports of the public health implications of climate change for 15 states. Indiana is not included on this list. The Report for California (2003) is 59 pp and has 195 references; the Ohio Report (2000) has 39 pp and 247 references.
                             

Union of Concerned Scientists: California enacts nation’s toughest global warming bill. August 31, 2006. Available March 23, 2008 online at: http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/california-enacts-nations.html

California Legislature passed landmark legislation to create the nation’s first economy-wide cap on global warming emissions, and Gov. Schwarzenegger agreed to sight the bill into law.

Union of Concerned Scientists: Global Warming. Policy Solutions: Three Climate Bills Working Their Way through the Senate. Available March 23, 2008 online at: http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/solutions/senate-climage-bills.html.

Reviews three climate bills approved by the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee in early December 2007: Climate Change Adaptation Act; Global Change Research Improvement Act; Federal Ocean Acidification Research and Monitoring Act.

Union of Concerned Scientists News. Senate Committee Passes Historic Bill to Reduce Global Warming Pollution. Statement by UCS President Kevin Knobloch, December 5, 2007. Available March 23, 2008 online at: http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/senate-committee-passes-0083.html

The Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works Committee passed a bill introduced by Sens. J. Lieberman (D-Conn) and John Warner (R-Va) that would establish the first nationwide cap-and-trade-system to reduce global warming pollution. UCS President praises Lieberman, Warner and Committee Chair: B. Boxer for leadership, suggesting that this bill suggests to the world that the U.S. is taking its responsibility for its own global warming emissions. Knobloch notes shortcomings of the bill: “it would give away a large share of emission allowances to polluters.”