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The California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) is hosting a series of webinars as part of its efforts to track and report on climate change and its impacts on California. This webinar is the third in the series and will be co-convened with CDPH.

This webinar is the second in the series, co-convened with the California Department of Water Resources and the State Water Resources Control Board. It will address the impacts of climate change on California’s water resources, and efforts underway to address them.

Today, the California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) issued a fish consumption advisory for Crowley Lake, located approximately 25 miles northwest of the city of Bishop in Mono County. The advisory provides safe-eating advice for Golden Shiner, Lahontan Cutthroat Trout, Rainbow Trout and Sacramento Perch.

Fish advisory for Crowley Lake in Mono County.

California’s climate is changing. Climate change can affect our health through exposures to extreme heat, floods, and other events like wildfires. OEHHA is working to ensure that children and pregnancy-related risks are addressed, through scientific research, factsheets, and resources.

Children and Heat — Protect infants, kids, and teens fact sheet in different languages

Pregnancy and Heat — Protect yourself and your baby fact sheet in different languages

The California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment adopted public health goals for perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) in drinking water, providing important guidance to the State Water Resources Control Board to inform future drinking water standards.

OEHHA has released the Monitoring Prioritization Process report which describes how water bodies are identified and prioritized for additional monitoring to support fish advisory development.