fracking & methane

Doctor warns of harmful air pollution with Cracker Plant

July 18, 2019

WTOV 9 interview with Ned Ketyer, MD of PSR Philadelphia.

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Procedural Win Will Allow Time to Protect Communities from LNG

July 9, 2019

PSR’s recent letter helped win an extension of the comment period for the proposal to allow transport of liquefied natural gas (LNG) by rail. The extension will give us time…

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“A High Potential for Catastrophe”: PSR Calls for Better Government Assessment of Public Health and Safety Risks Associated with Transporting LNG by Rail

July 8, 2019

As an organization that mobilizes medical and health professionals on environmental hazards to health, PSR is gravely concerned about the severe potential fire, health and safety risks to communities with LNG transport by train.

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Interview with Dr. Larry Moore

June 25, 2019
Drilling rigs

Morning Magazine, KGNU 88.5 FM Interview with Larry Moore, MD of PSR Colorado Working Group, on the fracking science Compendium. Interview starts about 19 minutes in.

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Gov. Wolf, examine the health risks of fracking

June 23, 2019

Letter to the Editor in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette by Tammy Murphy, PSR Pennsylvania.

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The Growing Case against Fracking

June 21, 2019

Article from the Progressive featuring the fracking science Compendium by PSR and Concerned Health Professionals of NY.

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New Analysis of Fracking Science Finds Serious Harms to Public Health, Environment, and Climate

June 19, 2019
Drilling rigs

A major new report by PSR and Concerned Health Professionals of NY compiles, tracks, and analyzes key trends about drilling, fracking, and its infrastructure, and demonstrates that there are pervasive, grave misunderstandings about the effects of natural gas and fracking.

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New Fracking “Compendium” Now Available

June 19, 2019
Drilling rigs

The sixth edition of the fracking “Compendium” has just been released. PSR is proud to partner with Concerned Health Professionals of New York in preparing and rolling out this volume, which provides abstracts and electronic links to an almost encyclopedic compilation of reports, peer-reviewed articles and investigative reporting on fracking’s dangerous impacts on health.

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Help stop fracked gas: Protect our communities and climate!

June 18, 2019

INACTIVE – We’re asking you to help us protect the world’s climate and the health of our communities—by speaking out against a proposal to build a massive fracked-gas export facility in Oregon.

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Tell your Representative: Support the “Methane Waste Prevention Act of 2019”

May 29, 2019

INACTIVE – Tell your representative to cosponsor the “Methane Waste Prevention Act of 2019.” This bill will protect both health and the climate by reducing leaks of methane gas from oil and gas wells on federal land.

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