In her role with the Alliance, Ms. Huffling works with nurses and national nursing organizations on a variety of environmental health issues including climate change, chemical policy, expansion of environmental health throughout nursing education, and sustainable healthcare. Since the beginning of her nursing career, Ms. Huffling has been a champion of the inclusion of environmental health into nursing and midwifery practice. While practicing full-time as a nurse-midwife, Ms. Huffling developed an assessment tool for nurse-midwives and other health professionals to assess for environmental exposures in pregnant women that is being utilized in obstetrical practices across the country.