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Fueling Sickness Livestream

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.

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Fact Sheet: Fueling Sickness

One-page summary of PSR’s recent Fueling Sickness report, highlighting the key findings.

Fueling Sickness

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.

Statement

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.

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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.

Carbon Capture Webinar

Examining Carbon Capture Through a Public Health & Environmental Justice Lens

Webinar co-hosted by PSR National and the Science & Environmental Health Network.

Testimony

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.

Testimony

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.

Letter to EPA on Coal Combustion Residuals

Letter signed by PSR and partner groups asking the EPA to extend by 30 days the comment period for a rule on coal combustion residuals.

Testimony

PSR Expert Testimony on Coal Ash

PSR National Environment & Health Director Barbara Gottlieb gave expert testimony on the health impacts of coal ash disposal for a PSR Chesapeake lawsuit against the EPA.