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Howard Frumkin

@howardfrumkin.bsky.social
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I'm a physician & epidemiologist focused on environmental health. I study how planetary changes such as climate change, the natural world, and the built environment affect our health and well-being, and how to protect both the planet and ourselves

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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
This brief essay reveals a key insight into how to Make America Healthy Again— by making our environment (air, water, soil, food, energy, buildings, cities, etc) healthy again. @docsforclimate.bsky.social @apha.org @psr.org @howardfrumkin.bsky.social @jonathanpatz.bsky.social
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Hidden in Plain Sight
How We Overlooked One of the Leading Drivers of Heart Disease
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safe-climate @safe-climate.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
We are physicians in Washington state. We have seen the impacts of climate change and air pollution on our patients. Trump is abdicating his responsibility to protect people from the dangers of climate change. @markvmd.bsky.social @howardfrumkin.bsky.social www.seattletimes.com/opinion/repe...
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Repeal of EPA 'endangerment finding' endangers human health | Op-Ed
Climate change is happening, it is human-caused and it is damaging human health, two doctors write.
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Boffo op-Ed by my medical colleague @ashleymcclure.bsky.social on how to protect human and planetary health. @docsforclimate.bsky.social @gchalliance.bsky.social @psr.org @apha.org @howardfrumkin.bsky.social @jonathanpatz.bsky.social @climate4health.bsky.social @bfrist.bsky.social
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Opinion | Protecting California’s public lands from oil and gas drilling is defending public health
Federal plans for oil drilling along a million acres in California would change healthful, wild spaces into sources of pollution and illness.
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HealthBegins @healthbegins.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
The sooner we stop denying the impact of #climatechange on our health, the healthier we will be. Want to make America healthy again? Stop fueling climate change theconversation.com/want-to-make... by @jonlevybu.bsky.social @jonathanpatz.bsky.social @howardfrumkin.bsky.social @us.theconversation.com
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Want to make America healthy again? Stop fueling climate change
From extreme heat to mosquito-borne illnesses, climate change is making people sicker and more vulnerable to disease. Health scientists explain what individuals and governments can do about it.
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Amen! Climate and health strategies must address the biodiversity crisis. This insight is a key driver behind the planetaryhealthalliance.org movement. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social @cwalzer.bsky.social @statnews.com @nationalacademies.org @howardfrumkin.bsky.social
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Climate and health strategies must address the biodiversity crisis
Safeguarding biodiversity is not simply an environmental concern but a foundational element of preventive and clinical care.
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Howard Frumkin @howardfrumkin.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
This impressive and sobering analysis documents (conservatively) the dreadful human impacts of rolling back environmental regulations. Congratulations to the AP team. Speak up for protecting our health and our environment! apnews.com/article/epa-...
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Trump EPA rollbacks would weaken rules projected to save billions of dollars and thousands of lives
When the head of the Environmental Protection Agency earlier this year announced a massive rollback of environmental regulations, he said it would spark a “Golden Age” for the American economy.
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Howard Frumkin @howardfrumkin.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
The Stockholm Declaration on Chemistry for the Future, released 10 days ago, now has almost 1000 signers. It's a visionary call for a "new chemistry for sustainability" that will protect people, prosperity, and the planet. I signed. Will you? www.stockholm-declaration.org
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Home | Stockholm Declaration
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Howard Frumkin @howardfrumkin.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Beautiful essay by @dralicechen.bsky.social and @drvivekmurthy.bsky.social. "Societies ... require people who are willing to speak up boldly and unapologetically for the dignity and well-being of others. Physicians have the power to be these people." www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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The Power of Physicians in Dangerous Times | NEJM
The current crisis in the United States is bigger than politics, and it deeply affects the health and lives of our patients and communities. Now is the time for physicians to harness their power an...
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Howard Frumkin @howardfrumkin.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
This report documents further devastation of climate and health research at NIH. Among other responses, we need to be planning to restart such critical research once this madness ends--as it will. @docsforclimate.bsky.social @ecoamerica.bsky.social @apha.org www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Exclusive: documents reveal how NIH will axe climate studies
US agency guidelines nix funding for studies on climate anxiety and more but allow it for those on extreme weather and health.
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Howard Frumkin @howardfrumkin.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Glad to share this short paper, just published, describing work at the National Academy of Medicine to promote broad system change (beyond the health sector) to confront climate change. @thirdactorg.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com @maibached.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Charting a path to health for all at net-zero emissions
Climate change is the defining health challenge of the 21st century, with record-breaking temperatures and extreme weather events already exacting an unprecedented toll on human health and wellbeing. ...
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
What did scientists (who care deeply about leaving a livable world to our children & grandchildren) do when a cheap political stunt derailed their efforts to help? They built a workaround. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/o... @howardfrumkin.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com @mason4c.bsky.social
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Opinion | We Found a Work Around to Trump Defunding Science
When knowledge is threatened, don’t just mourn it. Build around it.
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Howard Frumkin @howardfrumkin.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Compelling article making the scientific case for legal liability of major fossil fuel companies. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Carbon majors and the scientific case for climate liability - Nature
A transparent and reproducible scientific framework is introduced to formalize how trillions in economic losses are attributable to the extreme heat caused by emissions from fossil fuel companies, whi...
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Howard Frumkin @howardfrumkin.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
What a treat to hear the great Rita Colwell recount the story of Vibrio, human health, and climate here at UW School of Public Health.
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Howard Frumkin @howardfrumkin.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
I never imagined a world in which, when an HHS Secretary states that vaccines are the most effective way to prevent measles, it counts as news. A bit like NASA confirming the theory of gravity. www.statnews.com/2025/04/06/r...
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Howard Frumkin @howardfrumkin.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Looking forward to joining Hannah Murphy Winter of @thestranger.com, Mickey Fearn, Ashley Townes, and Joycelyn Chui for a wonderful Earth Day event at @townhallseattle.bsky.social. We'll be talking about climate equity, park equity, health equity, and the connections among them.
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Howard Frumkin @howardfrumkin.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
An incisive commentary about a gut-wrenching moment in US history. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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It Was an Ambush
Today marked one of the grimmest days in the history of American diplomacy.
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Our latest survey finds that Americans are becoming increasingly aware that climate change harms people's health. Check out our full report: www.climatechangecommunication.org/all/climate-... @docsforclimate.bsky.social @lisapatel.bsky.social @howardfrumkin.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com
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Climate Change in the American Mind: Public Perceptions of the Health Harms of Global Warming, Fall 2024 - Center for Climate Change Communication
Report Summary This report is based on findings from a nationally representative survey – Climate Change in the American Mind – conducted jointly by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication an...
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Shutting down existing EV charging hardware, which has already been paid for, is the definition of government waste. But I don't hear DOGE doing anything about this… 🙄 electrek.co/2025/02/21/t...
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Trump to shut down all 8,000 EV charging ports at federal govt buildings
The Trump administration is shutting down all federal government buildings' EV chargers and expected to sell off the GSA's newly bought EVs.
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Howard Frumkin @howardfrumkin.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Had the honor and pleasure of coffee with the phenomenal @govjayinslee.bsky.social today. We talked about standing with science, communicating the climate crisis, resisting the abuses and lies of the administration. Then we both biked home! @docsforclimate.bsky.social @thirdactorg.bsky.social
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Howard Frumkin @howardfrumkin.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Wow. The PubMed site is down. Is this just a temporary glitch or have they killed it too?
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Howard Frumkin @howardfrumkin.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
When @govjayinslee.bsky.social lends his support, you know you're doing something right!
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 10/02/2025
As I shared last week, the US's first National Nature Assessment has been shut down: but the authors, led by @phillevin.bsky.social, are determined to continue. Read more: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/c...
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Trump Killed a Major Report on Nature. They’re Trying to Publish It Anyway. (Gift Article)
The first full draft of the assessment, on the state of America’s land, water and wildlife, was weeks from completion. The project leader called the study “too important to die.”
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