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Sierra magazine article quoting Washington PSR’s Breck Lebegue, MD, MPH.
EPA is proposing to delay the closure deadlines for coal ash ponds that are known to leak toxic pollutants — such as arsenic, lead, mercury — into our surrounding groundwater. Submit a comment and tell EPA no more delays!
Authored by leading health experts, this new report from PSR shows widespread health impact of extracting, transporting and burning fossil fuels.
INACTIVE – The Trump administration is trying to rollback important, health-protective emissions standards for mercury and other hazardous, life threatening air pollutants. Submit your comment in opposition!
Letter to the editor from PSR Pennsylvania’s Dr. Robert Little in the Patriot-News.
Inside Climate News article quoting PSR Pennsylvania’s Dr. Walter Tsou.
“Millions are breathing cleaner air because of these protections under the Clean Air Act,” said Jeff Carter, Executive Director of PSR.
The US EPA reaffirmed that it is “appropriate and necessary” to regulate mercury and hazardous air pollutants from power plants, reinstating an earlier EPA position reversed by the Trump administration.
PSR co-presented a powerhouse webinar on carbon capture and sequestration – the unproven and faulty techno-fix that hasn’t yet shown it can capture and safely store carbon pollution forever.
On September 8th, 2021, Barbara Gottlieb, Environment and Health Program director, represented Physicians for Social Responsibility in front of the United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB).