Year: 2016
Resolution Number: 77
Action Taken: Approved as Amended
Status:
Author(s): Larry Junck, MD
Sponsor: Larry Junck, MD
On behalf of: Washtenaw County Delegation
Committee: D (Public Health)
Resolved Section(s):
RESOLVED: That MSMS supports the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to promulgate rules to regulate and control greenhouse gas emissions in the United States; and be it further RESOLVED: That MSMS supports the following policy:Our MSMS:1. Supports the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s fourth assessment report and concurs with the scientific consensus that the Earth is undergoing adverse global climate change and that anthropogenic contributions are significant. These climate changes will create conditions that affect public health, with disproportionate impacts on vulnerable populations, including children, the elderly, and the poor.2. Supports educating the medical community on the potential adverse public health effects of global climate change and incorporating the health implications of climate change into the spectrum of medical education, including topics such as population displacement, heat waves and drought, flooding, infectious and vector-borne diseases, and potable water supplies.3. Recognizes the importance of physician involvement in policymaking at the state, national, and global level and supports efforts to search for novel, comprehensive, and economically sensitive approaches to mitigating climate change to protect the health of the public; and recognizes that whatever the etiology of global climate change, policymakers should work to reduce human contributions to such changes.4. Encourages physicians to assist in educating patients and the public on environmentally sustainable practices, and to serve as role models for promoting environmental sustainability.5. Encourages physicians to work with local and state health departments to strengthen the public health infrastructure to ensure that the global health effects of climate change can be anticipated and responded to more efficiently.6. Supports epidemiological, translational, clinical and basic science research necessary for evidence-based global climate change policy decisions related to health care and treatment; and be it further RESOLVED: That MSMS supports increased physician participation in regional and state decision-making regarding air pollution across the United States; and be it further RESOLVED: That MSMS supports (1) state legislation and regulations that meaningfully reduce power plant emissions of carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxide; and (2) efforts to limit carbon dioxide emissions through the reduction of the burning of coal in the state’s power generating plants, efforts to improve the efficiency of power plants, and continued development of alternative renewable energy sources; and be it further RESOLVED: That MSMS supports national enactment of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan and the implementation of the Plan’s policies in Michigan.
RESOLVED: That MSMS supports the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to promulgate rules to regulate and control greenhouse gas emissions in the United States; and be it further RESOLVED: That MSMS supports the following policy:Our MSMS:1. Supports the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s fourth assessment report and concurs with the scientific consensus that the Earth is undergoing adverse global climate change and that anthropogenic contributions are significant. These climate changes will create conditions that affect public health, with disproportionate impacts on vulnerable populations, including children, the elderly, and the poor.2. Supports educating the medical community on the potential adverse public health effects of global climate change and incorporating the health implications of climate change into the spectrum of medical education, including topics such as population displacement, heat waves and drought, flooding, infectious and vector-borne diseases, and potable water supplies.3. Recognizes the importance of physician involvement in policymaking at the state, national, and global level and supports efforts to search for novel, comprehensive, and economically sensitive approaches to mitigating climate change to protect the health of the public; and recognizes that whatever the etiology of global climate change, policymakers should work to reduce human contributions to such changes.4. Encourages physicians to assist in educating patients and the public on environmentally sustainable practices, and to serve as role models for promoting environmental sustainability.5. Encourages physicians to work with local and state health departments to strengthen the public health infrastructure to ensure that the global health effects of climate change can be anticipated and responded to more efficiently.6. Supports epidemiological, translational, clinical and basic science research necessary for evidence-based global climate change policy decisions related to health care and treatment; and be it further RESOLVED: That MSMS supports increased physician participation in regional and state decision-making regarding air pollution across the United States; and be it further RESOLVED: That MSMS supports (1) state legislation and regulations that meaningfully reduce power plant emissions of carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxide; and (2) efforts to limit carbon dioxide emissions through the reduction of the burning of coal in the state’s power generating plants, efforts to improve the efficiency of power plants, and continued development of alternative renewable energy sources; and be it further RESOLVED: That MSMS supports national enactment of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan and the implementation of the Plan’s policies in Michigan.
Fiscal Note: NULL
Resolution: View PDF for Support AMA Climate Change Policies and Michigan Enactment of EPA Clean Power Plan Policies
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