Carbon-tax bill before Congress comes with an unacceptable trade-off
Op-ed in the Arizona Daily Star by PSR Arizona’s Barbara Warren, MD.
TEP power generation plans involve unsafe pollutants
Arizona Daily Star op-ed by PSR Arizona’s Eve Shapiro, MD.
Texas signed off on the restoration of this old coal mine. Now a leaky landfill is contaminating groundwater.
Article in Grist quoting Karen Hadden, Texas PSR.
Coal policies continue to get attention in Congress
Article in St. Joseph News-Press quoting PSR Director of Environment & Health Barbara Gottlieb.
EPA standards rollback harmful to all, including Lansing residents
Op-ed in the Lansing State Journal by PSR environment & health intern Samuel Maves on the “Affordable Clean Energy” (ACE) rule, which rolls back critical health and safety regulations on dangerous emissions from power plants.
Carbon emission fee: return proceeds to the people
Letter to the editor in the Patriot-News from PSR Harrisburg’s Dr. James E. Jones.
Trump’s EPA Calls for Dirty Power As Climate Crisis Accelerates
In Sierra magazine, PSR Environment & Health Director Barbara Gottlieb discusses how the inadequate Affordable Clean Energy rule—the Trump Administration’s replacement for the Clean Power Plan—fails to reduce carbon emissions and endangers health.
Physicians for Social Responsibility: Finalized ACE Rule Puts People’s Health at Risk
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released their finalized Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule, replacing the Clean Power Plan. The Clean Power Plan, the first-ever federal policy to reduce harmful carbon pollution from existing power plants, would have achieved meaningful reductions in those emissions, while the ACE rule sets no carbon pollution limits on power plants.
Trump Wants to End Regulation That Cut Mercury Pollution by 81 Percent
Op-ed in Truthout from PSR Philadelphia member Dr. David Wolk.
Tell EPA NOT to Undercut the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards!
INACTIVE – Tell the EPA you oppose the plan to weaken the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS).