Environmental Health

Tobacco’s Devastating Impact on Women & Girls

The tobacco industry has long understood the importance of recruiting women and girls as customers and has a long history of targeting them.

This Dia de las Madres (Mother's Day) Help us Secure our Children’s Future Through A Full Census Count

As families practice “safer-at-home” measures, school their children in virtual classrooms, and abstain from most of their usual activities before this public health crisis, we have all been reminded of the importance of safety and the future. This means ensuring a full and accurate count of everyone in the 2020 Census. And while research has made it clear that we need more creative strategies to reach and encourage Latino families to include their young children in the census, it is incumbent on all of us to do our part in making sure everyone in our networks is counted.

How Research on Gender Will Help Us Craft Climate Justice Policy

We know that climate change is exacerbating already existing inequalities all across the world -- around race, gender, and class -- and we know that these differentiated experiences with climate change are rarely addressed in policy. The Women’s Environment and Development Organization and the Sierra Club just released a first-of-its kind report that reviews existing academic and scientific literature to further explore the gender-specific climate dynamics in the United States.