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Rethinking indoor fuel combustion to support healthier homes and environment - emma hines
Emmanuelle Hines
RMI, Fort Worth, TX
APHA 2024 Annual Meeting and Expo
Emma Hines is a senior associate on RMI’s Carbon-Free Buildings Program team. She will speak about the state of evidence on the health and air quality risks of fossil fuel combustion in buildings and advancements in building decarbonization policy. Under Emma’s leadership, APHA became the first national public health organization to make a formal statement on gas stoves with the passage of a proposed policy statement “Gas Stove Emissions Are a Public Health Concern” in 2022. Emma will discuss the role APHA and public health professionals can play in advocating for an equitable, multipronged approach to combat indoor air pollution from combustion appliances like gas stoves.
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Rethinking indoor fuel combustion to support healthier homes and environment - ruth ann norton
Ruth Ann Norton
Green & Healthy Homes Initiative, Baltimore, MD
APHA 2024 Annual Meeting and Expo
Ruth Ann Norton, President and CEO of the Green & Healthy Homes Initiative, will discuss health, economic and equity driven outcomes are maximized through a whole-house approach that aligns weatherization, decarbonization and electrification with health-based housing interventions. She will provide a look at work underway in Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and California that demonstrates the positive health benefits and outcomes that advance the nation’s climate, housing and environmental justice goals. Specifically she will educate the audience on the new 10 elements of healthy housing and how GHHI has used these in partnership with its community driven health and electrification collaboratives to move policy and improve health.
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Rethinking indoor fuel combustion to support healthier homes and environment - jamie long
Jamie Long
Public Health Law Center, Saint Paul, MN
APHA 2024 Annual Meeting and Expo
Jamie Long is a senior staff attorney with the Public Health Law Center’s Climate Justice Team, where he provides legal technical assistance on equitable decarbonization to advocates and policymakers across the country. His presentation will provide an overview of the legal landscape for appliance regulation, particularly following the court decision in California Restaurant Association v. Berkeley which has complicated the field for regulators in much of the West. Jamie will also touch on the push by the gas industry to obfuscate the public health concerns with indoor fuel combustion.
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Rethinking indoor fuel combustion to support healthier homes and environment - yannai kashtan
Yannai Kashtan
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
APHA 2024 Annual Meeting and Expo
Yannai Kashtan is pursuing a PhD in earth system science at Stanford’s Doerr School of Sustainability and he previously earned a bachelor's degree in physics and chemistry. At Stanford, he has been a key member of a research team investigating the impact of gas stoves on indoor air quality and publishing the findings in the peer-reviewed literature. Yannai first-authored a new paper that was the first to analyze benzene emissions from the use of gas stoves, finding that indoor concentrations of benzene can be worse than average concentrations from secondhand smoke, and can migrate into other rooms far from the kitchen, exceeding national and international health benchmarks. He will also share results of an upcoming exposure modeling study quantifying how much stove-attributable nitrogen dioxide people are exposed to across the US, both as a function of different behaviors and by socio-demographic groups.
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Rethinking indoor fuel combustion to support healthier homes and environment - brittany meyer
Brittany Meyer
American Lung Association, Washington, DC
APHA 2024 Annual Meeting and Expo
Brittany Meyer is the director of nationwide policy for indoor air at the American Lung Association. She will speak about the current state of science regarding the health impacts of combustion-powered appliances in the home and the American Lung Association’s “Healthy and Efficient Homes” campaign launched last year. The campaign aims to inform the public about things they can do to mitigate harms caused by these appliances, and influence local and nationwide policy in a way that will protect everyone.
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