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Obama To Frame Climate Change As A Threat To Nation's Health
The president plans to spotlight the ways that climate change might impact health and to describe steps that companies such as Google and Microsoft are taking to help prepare the nation's health systems for the effects of a more erratic climate .
President Barack Obama will ask Americans to think of climate change as a threat not just to the environment, but also to their health. Obama on Tuesday was to announce a series of steps that private entities like Google and Microsoft are taking to better prepare the nation's health systems for the inevitable effects of a warmer, more erratic climate. He was to be joined at Howard University Medical School by Surgeon General Vivek Murthy and the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Gina McCarthy. (Lederman, 4/7)
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