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Video: Fueling Sickness: The Hidden Health Costs of Fossil Fuel Pollution
PSR and Sierra Club hosted a livestream discussion of “Fueling Sickness,” a collaborative report led by 12 national health organizations on the direct health impacts of fossil fuel pollution across every system of the body and every stage of fossil fuel use.
Fact Sheet: Fueling Sickness
One-page summary of PSR’s recent Fueling Sickness report, highlighting the key findings.
Fueling Sickness: The Hidden Health Costs of Fossil Fuel Pollution
A collaborative report on the direct health impacts of fossil fuel pollution across every system of the body and every stage of fossil fuel use.
Updated coal ash standards will clean up hundreds of contaminated sites
After nearly ten years, EPA has updated its standards regulating the management of coal ash, the toxics-laden waste that is left behind after coal is burned. PSR welcomes this long-overdue standard.
Comments to EPA on Mercury and Air Toxics Standards
Health and medical organizations including PSR submitted these comments to the U.S. EPA on standards for hazardous pollutants from coal- and oil-fired power plants.
Examining Carbon Capture Through a Public Health & Environmental Justice Lens
Webinar co-hosted by PSR National and the Science & Environmental Health Network.
Mercury and Air Toxics PSR Testimony
PSR’s Barbara Gottlieb and Climate Ambassadors Janis B. Petzel, MD and Alan Lockwood, MD, FAAN, FANA, testified in support of the EPA reaffirming and strengthening the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards for Power Plants rule.
PSR Testimony on Toxic Mercury Pollution
PSR Environment & Health Program Director Barbara Gottlieb testified on the need for the EPA to reinstate their Mercury and Air Toxics rule, which limits toxic air and water pollution from coal-fired power plants.