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The Clean Air Act: A Proven Tool for Healthy Air
This new report highlights the serious, sometimes fatal damage that air pollution inflicts on human health, and explains the dramatic success of the Clean Air Act over the last 40 years. Read more »
How does our nation’s reliance on pesticides affect the health of those who plant and harvest our food?
Pesticides are designed to harm living organisms. Although many can be used without harm to humans, it’s not surprising that some cause serious health problems. From birth defects to cancers, the health effects of pesticides are felt disproportionately by our nation’s over two million farmworkers. Read more »
What is unique about the health professional advocate?
PSR’s mission is to protect human life from the gravest threats to health and survival. The principles of public health prevention expressed in this mission get implemented through education and advocacy -- the act of speaking out for a cause. Read more »
Indoor Air Pollution
How is it that the buildings we spend the most time in -- raising our families, learning, earning a living -- can be the most toxic? What can we do about it, what sort of recourse do we have? Read more »
Fracking Revisited: Feeling the Effects
Once again the Environmental Health Policy Institute is focusing on hydraulic fracturing and the associated health and environmental effects. Read more »
Coal's Assault on Human Health
Coal combustion releases mercury, particulate matter, nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, and dozens of other substances known to be hazardous to human health. The report also considers coal's contribution to global warming, and the health implications of global warming. Read more »
EPA's Blind Spot: Hexavalent Chromium in Coal Ash
Newly released report on a new carcinogen identified in coal ash: hexavalent chromium. By PSR with Earthjustice and Environmental Integrity Project. Read more »
New PSR fact sheets on air pollutant effects
PSR presents three new fact sheets, detailing the health effects of air pollutants on the respiratory system, cardiovascular system, and the nervous system. Read more »
A brief overview of the dangers to health from hexavalent chromium in coal ash. Read more »
Confronting Toxics Webinar Series
January 26, 2011. Federal chemicals policy and the role of the healthcare professional in 2011, with Richard Denison PhD, Senior Scientist, Environmental Defense Fund: “The State of TSCA Reform.” Read more »
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