CDC, HHS release environmental index as federal government ramps up climate oversight The index is the latest initiative by the HHS which, with the CMS, has increasingly framed climate change as a ...

The Environmental Justice Index, released in a partnership between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry and the Department of ...

The CDC and HHS on Aug. 10 released the Environmental Justice Index, a tool meant to help public health officials and communities identify areas at high risk of experiencing negative health ...

An example of how pre-existing health conditions can be worsened by environmental burden would be two people with asthma. Today, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Agency for ...

The CDC’s social vulnerability index and environmental justice index — tools that could show whether particular populations might face disproportionate health risks — have both been taken ...

Bronx organizations pushing for environmental justice with high asthma rates in community. ... Dariella Rodriguez asked a group of students at an evening event at The Point CDC in Hunts Point.