Air Pollution From Raising Livestock Accounts for Most of the 16,000 US Deaths Each Year Tied to Food Production, Study Finds
Substituting poultry for red meat could prevent 6,300 deaths, the study found, and a shift to vegetarian, vegan or flexitarian diets could save 10,700.
May 11, 2021
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Food production, primarily the raising of livestock, causes poor air quality that is responsible for about 16,000 deaths a year in the United States, roughly the same number from other sources of air pollution, including transportation and electricity generation, according to research published Monday.
By Chris Riotta
Gina Raimondo as governor of Rhode Island in 2018. (Image credit: Antony Ricci/Shutterstock)
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo told a House Appropriations subcommittee on Thursday that her department suffered significant damage as a result of the SolarWinds attack, and she stressed the need for government agencies to invest in a shift toward an intelligence-based cybersecurity approach as well as increasing attention to technology supply chains.
The damage was significant, the secretary said, and as a result we are taking [cybersecurity] very, very seriously.
Raimondo also provided further details about a proposed office within the Commerce Department tasked with addressing vulnerabilities in essential products, stemming from the administration s efforts to secure critical supply chains.
Coal Phase-Down Has Lowered, Not Eliminated Health Risks From Building Energy, Study Says
Biomass and natural gas have become an increasingly large share of the health burden of fueling buildings and factories.
May 7, 2021
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Thanks to the phase-down of coal, the risk of premature death in the United States due to the burning of fuels for electricity, homes and businesses fell 54 to 60 percent from 2008 to 2017, Harvard researchers found in a new study.
But their results showed that fuel use in buildings still accounts for a significant health burden, causing an estimated 48,000 to 64,000 premature deaths in 2017, with the hazards of burning biomass, natural gas and wood now surpassing those of coal.
Department wants government, private sector to jointly get ahead of resiliency issues
By Chris Riotta
NOTE: This article first appeared on FCW.com.
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo told a House Appropriations subcommittee on Thursday that her department suffered significant damage as a result of the SolarWinds attack, and she stressed the need for government agencies to invest in a shift toward an intelligence-based cybersecurity approach as well as increasing attention to technology supply chains.
The damage was significant, the secretary said, and as a result we are taking [cybersecurity] very, very seriously.
Raimondo also provided further details about a proposed office within the Commerce Department tasked with addressing vulnerabilities in essential products, stemming from the administration s efforts to secure critical supply chains.
Claims People: Ascot, Sapiens and Goldberg Segalla By Claims Journal Staff | May 4, 2021
Marina Barg
Ascot, an international reinsurer and specialty insurer based in London, has appointed Marina S. Barg as chief claims officer for North America.
Barg will work with Ascot’s Ethos Specialty business units and executives in Bermuda, London and the United States in a newly created position. She will report to Matt Kramer, Ascot’s chief executive officer for the US.
Barg previously was a senior vice president and head of claims for W.R. Berkley. Prior to that, she spent six years at Navigators, firstly on US casualty claims before being promoted to chief claims officer. Barg has also spent time at Starr Companies and American International Group working across a range of casualty related exposures, the company said.