Gas-powered building equipment fuels poses serious public health risks March 28, 2024
Oregon Capital Chronicle
Implementing healthy air standards would significantly improve air quality across Oregon, reducing asthma and other pollution-related health issues and decrease health care costs. The total health cost of fossil fuel heating equipment amounts to almost $88 million annually, according to a new report by Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility, Verde, Oregon Sierra Club and others. When considering climate damages from burning fossil fuels in homes and businesses, along with health costs, the total cost for Oregonians is staggering – approximately $1.1 billion annually.
Share:
Categories:
More Campaign Update
Thousands Rally at Baltimore’s War Memorial Plaza for ‘No Kings’ Day
Chesapeake PSR's Drs. Terry Fitzgerald and Gwen DuBois in Washington, DC in October 2025 The Greyhound The concerns on display stretched well beyond immigration. Terry...
IPPNW Statement to the 11th Review Conference to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)
Delivered by Magritte GordaneerMay 1, 2026 Honorable Chair, Distinguished Delegates, and Civil Society Colleagues, We are in a crisis — you wouldn’t know that walking...
For Public Health and to Save Money, New York Needs Renewable Energy
We need clean, renewable energy to protect our health and to drive down energy costs. As organizations representing public and environmental health as well as...