Letters & Sign-Ons

Letters

• February 2023: Environmental health should be included in the Public Health Workforce Loan Repayment Program with $100 million allocated from the President's 2024 budget request | PDF
• January 2023: In support of the recommendations of the Reagan-Udall Foundation to improve our nation’s food safety system, identifying three recommendations | PDF
• November 2022: Support for increased funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Environmental Health to $311.85 million | PDF
• November 2022: Support for at least $400 million for the Housing and Urban Development's Office of Lead Hazard Control & Health Housing | PDF
• February 2022: Incorporating Environmental Health within the PREVENT Pandemics Act | PDF
• June 2021: Inclusion of environmental health in the American Rescue Plan Letter to the White House | PDF
• May 2021: Support Environmental Health Workforce Act HR 2611 | Letter
• June 2020: President Dr. Priscilla Oliver Letter on BLM Movement | PDF
• June 2020: NEHA and IFEH letter to UN's Office of Disaster Risk Reduction regarding their Science and Technology for DRR in the Context of COVID-19, R-Stag Document | PDF
• June 2020: Position Statement on FEMA's Proposal to Identify Non-traditional PPE Consumers | PDF

Declarations

• January 2021: Presidential Declaration on COVID-19 Vaccination | PDF
• September 2020: Presidential Declaration on Food Safety and National Food Safety Education Month | PDF
• September 2020: 2020 World Environmental Health Day Declaration | PDF

Sign-Ons

"Sign-on" is a term used to characterize certain policy positions. Often one or more organizations, like ours, will seek to develop a policy position or position on a particular piece of legislation. To increase the impact and effectiveness of that position, once developed, it is circulated among other organizations and groups having a similar interest in that given policy area.

A consensus position is developed among these various groups, allowing them to sign-on to a policy or legislative position. That letter or policy statement is then sent to Congress and it becomes a more effective way to communicate a position because of the combined effect of all groups that join in that stand. We use this mechanism as means of gaining greater attention for a policy or legislative position. We have joined in communicating the following positions:

• November 2022: CDC Coalition FY2023 funding | PDF
• November 2022: PREVENT ACT | PDF
• November 2022: NIOSH FY2023 funding | PDF
• October 2022: ALA Health Group Leaders letter to President Biden on EPA Rulemaking | PDF
• May 2022: FY2023 ATSDR funding | PDF
• FY2023 EPA Appropriations | PDF
• April 2022: FY2023 Labor HHS Appropriations recommendations | PDF
• April 2022: FY2023 CDC National Center for Environmental Health | PDF
• April 2022: FY2023 EPA Funding Health Associations | PDF
• April 2022: FY2023 Appropriations CDC Data Management | PDF
• April 2022: FY2023 CDC Climate Health funding | PDF
• April 2022: FY2023 CDC Coalition funding | PDF
• April 2022: Vector-Borne Disease Network FY2023 Labor HHS funding | PDF
• March 2022: Vector-Borne Disease Network FY2022 Thank You | PDF
• February 2022: Vector-Borne Disease Network FY2022 Labor HHS | PDF
• February 2022: National State and Local Health Org Letter to Congress re Build Back Better 2022 | PDF
• September 2021: We support CDC Resolution (Congress.gov)
• June 2021: We support Public Health Infrastructure Act S 674 | PDF
• June 2021: Comments to EPA on Rescinding the Rule on Costs and Benefits regarding the CAA
• June 2021: Letter to the Department of Transportation | PDF
• June 2021: Letter to EPA on National Air Toxics Assessment | PDF
• May 2021: We support the Climate Change & Health Promotion Act | PDF
• April 2021: We joined the Declaration on Climate Change and Health | PDF
• April 2021: We joined the Declaration to support EPA's Private Well Funding Request | PDF
• April 2021: We joined the CDC Coalition in supporting the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry | PDF
• April 2021: We joined the CDC Coalition in supporting CDC Social Determinants of Health program | PDF
• April 2021: We joined the CDC Coalition to support the CDC Data Modernization Initiative | PDF
• March 2021: We joined the CDC Coalition to support the CDC National Center for Environmental Health funding at $322 million for FY 2022 | PDF
• March 2021: We joined with the decentralized water coalition in supporting the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Decentralized Water Systems Grant program to be fully funded at $20 million for FY 2022 | PDF
• March 2021: We joined with the Vector-Borne Disease Network to support vector-borne disease programs at CDC at $82.603 million for CDC's Division of Vector-Borne Disease and $30 million for the Kay Hagan Tick Act | PDF
• March 2021: We joined several public and environmental health organizations to support the CDC Climate and Health Program at $50 million for FY 2022 | PDF
• February 2021: We joined the CDC Coalition in supporting CDC funding at $10 billion for FY 2022 | PDF
• January 2021: We, along with our environmental health partners, outlined priorities for the incoming Biden administration | PDF
• January 2021: Letter to Congress and Administration on Climate Change and Health | PDF
• January 2021: Letter to U.S. Senator Ed Markey on the Environmental Justice Mapping and Data Collection Act | PDF
• January 2021: We supported the Improving Social Determinants of Health Act of 2021 (H.R. 379) Supporting Organizations (347) | PDF