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As 2012 drew to a close, it would have been difficult for a person attentive to both environmental health and social justice in the USA to ignore the fact that the year had been one of record-breaking heat, devastating storms, economic uncertainty, and widespread political mobilization against the rights of women. As a high-stakes political year, it was perhaps not surprising that seemingly endless debates over women’s reproductive control were amplified in media and public discourse, but what may have shocked was how sporadic references to climate change wove in and out, occasionally disappearing altogether, even as massive storms ravaged the eastern seaboard. Regardless of one’s level of certainty or skepticism about climate science, the intensity of discourse surrounding this issue remains apparent. Although the sci entific community has drawn close to consensus regarding the occurrence and major …