Sentences with phrase «since public health authorities»

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Ever since a climate bill stalled in the Senate four years ago, environmental and public health activists have been pressing Obama to use his executive authority to impose carbon limits on the power sector, which accounts for 38 percent of the nation's carbon dioxide emissions.

Since the statutory authority to which the commenter refers does not often exist, many uses of protected health information that are in the public interest (described above in more detail) would not be possible under such an approach.