Hydrogen Pipe Dreams: Why Burning Hydrogen in Buildings Is Bad for Climate and Health
Issue: air pollution | climate change | Environment & Health | environmental justice | Equity & Justice | fracking & methane
Type: reports
Blending hydrogen with methane (“natural”) gas in our gas stoves and furnaces is dangerous and would accelerate climate change. Read about six failings of hydrogen blending in our just-released report. Download
Gas Stove Pollution Fact Sheet for Health Professionals
Issue: air pollution | children's health | electrification | Environment & Health | environmental justice | Equity & Justice | fracking & methane | health care
Type: fact sheets & infographics
Gas stoves release dangerous air pollutants, including nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, and particulate matter. PSR’s new fact sheet for health professionals describes the specific health effects of each primary gas stove pollutant and the strategies & solutions you can review with your patients to help them reduce their risk of exposure. Download
Gas Stove Pollution Fact Sheet
Issue: air pollution | children's health | electrification | Environment & Health | environmental justice | Equity & Justice | fracking & methane | renewable energy
Type: fact sheets & infographics
Gas stoves produce dangerous amounts of air pollutants. PSR’s new fact sheet covers the harms of gas stove pollution and steps to mitigate the impacts.
Compendium of Scientific, Medical, and Media Findings Demonstrating Risks and Harms of Fracking and Associated Gas and Oil Infrastructure
Issue: Environment & Health | fracking & methane | safe food & water | toxic chemicals
Type: fact sheets & infographics | reports
Eighth Edition PSR is proud to co-release the eighth edition of the fracking “Compendium,” a collection of some 2,000 abstracts of and links to medical, scientific and investigative reports about the consequences of oil and gas drilling, fracking, and infrastructure. This unique resource presents evidence that fracking-related activities harm public health, the environment, and the climate; links provide easy access to the source material. The 2022 edition …
Examining Carbon Capture Through a Public Health & Environmental Justice Lens
Issue: climate change | coal | Environment & Health | environmental justice | Equity & Justice | fracking & methane
Type: video & audio
Webinar co-hosted by PSR National and the Science & Environmental Health Network. Watch below and click here for additional resources.
Webinar – Cooking With Gas: Health Harms from Gas Stoves
Issue: air pollution | children's health | electrification | Environment & Health | environmental justice | Equity & Justice | fracking & methane
Type: toolkits & trainings | video & audio
This training exposes the harmful air pollutants produced by gas stoves, their negative impacts on the human body, the exacerbated impacts on vulnerable populations, and how health professionals can help their patients reduce their risk. Join PSR Sign up for email updates Become a Climate Ambassador
Webinar: Fracking with PFAS in Colorado
Issue: Environment & Health | fracking & methane | safe food & water | toxic chemicals
Type: video & audio
A new report by Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) presents previously unpublicized evidence that energy firms have used a class of extremely toxic chemicals known as PFAS in Colorado oil and gas wells since at least 2008. Furthermore, Colorado law allows oil and gas companies to withhold fracking chemical identities from the public and from …
Letter to EPA on Methane Leaks
Issue: air pollution | climate change | Environment & Health | fracking & methane
Type: policy positions & testimony
Eighteen national health organizations signed onto PSR-drafted comments urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to strengthen its proposed regulation of methane leaks from oil and gas wells.
Fracking with “Forever Chemicals” in Colorado
Issue: Environment & Health | fracking & methane | toxic chemicals
Type: reports
PSR is proud to release the latest in our series of reports on the use of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in oil and gas wells. Fracking with “Forever Chemicals” in Colorado analyzes industry data to document that companies have used PFAS (and/or substances that could degrade into PFAS) in drilling and fracking for oil …
Petition to Phase Down Fossil Fuel Production on Public Lands
Issue: climate change | Environment & Health | environmental justice | Equity & Justice | fracking & methane
Type: policy positions & testimony
Petition to President Biden and Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland demanding a phase down of fossil fuel production on public lands and waters, signed by a coalition of conservation, environmental justice, public health, indigenous, climate, faith-based, and community non-governmental organizations, including PSR.