Health Hazard

Obama Will Unveil Climate-Change Steps

By Google, Microsoft, others.

President Obama on Tuesday will 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 is expected to be joined at Howard University Medical School by Surgeon General Vivek Murthy and the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Gina McCarthy. Obama will ask Americans to think of climate change as a threat not just to the environment, but also to their health. Warning of the perils to the planet has gotten the president only so far; polls consistently show the public is skeptical that the steps Obama has taken to curb pollution are worth the cost to the economy.