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Water Protector, Watchdog, Environmental Chemist for Physicians for Social Responsibility Pennsylvania, Certified Thermographer in Optical Gas Imaging

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Two years into his term, has Gov. Shapiro kept his promises to regulate Pennsylvania’s fracking industry? A new report assesses the administration’s progress and makes new recommendations

Two years into his term, has Gov. Shapiro kept his promises to regulate Pennsylvania’s fracking industry?

A new report assesses the administration’s progress and makes new recommendations.

www.ehn.org/josh-shapiro...

03.04.2025 15:17 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

What's the best way to teach patients about climate resilience and health? Original research just published by PSR's Dr. Todd Sack concludes that, “the medical office waiting room appears to be an accepted, time-efficient, and effective site.” Read here:

25.03.2025 16:01 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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They worked handling wastewater from fracking operations, and were told they could make good money by helping keep an important industry clean and environmentally friendly. Nobody told them about the radiation! Read Justin Nobel's piece "Radioactive Shadow Workers" in Sierra Magazine buff.ly/llfQCGq

27.03.2025 13:00 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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New Angle for Reporting on Oil and Gas Industry — Radioactive Waste The lack of regulatory oversight of radioactive waste in the oil and gas industry has created an environment ripe for some extraordinary science and environmental journalism.

Great article from Justin Nobel.

27.03.2025 21:41 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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EPA Administrator Zeldin is dismantling the agency and trying to undercut our environmental protections. Tell Zeldin to stop putting polluters before the people.
Sign the petition here: buff.ly/rBn53tb

29.03.2025 13:38 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Climage Change and Its Effect on Women's Health Online Event March 24 Event on how climate change affects women's health. Featuring statements by Philadelphia Council Member Jamie GauthierPSR PA's Dr. Joniqua CeasarBro...

On March 24th, PSR PA presented Climate Change and Its Effect on Women's Health an online event featuring a number of speakers from the Philadelphia area. Watch here:

31.03.2025 23:01 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Show up in support of protective buffers! The Environmental Quality Board (EQB) is meeting on April 8th at 9 a.m. EST to discuss the rulemaking petition on protective buffers between new fracking wells and homes, schools, hospitals, and drinking water wells.

RSVP at buff.ly/Dz4ncv3.

03.04.2025 18:20 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Chemicals Found In PA Drinking Water Revealed In New Study Pennsylvania's water utilities have 123 contaminants, including vinyl chloride, arsenic, chloroform, and radon, according to the study.

patch.com/pennsylvania...

01.03.2025 14:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Will you find some peace today? In chaos, take moments for your brain to recover. Breathe and refocus. It is so hard to see the good right now, but it's still out there, waiting to be found. If you can't find it, be it. 💜

#photography #landscapes #landscapephotography
#washington #pnw
#gooutside

16.02.2025 12:57 👍 2099 🔁 169 💬 31 📌 9
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Cyndhia Ramatchandirane of Earthjustice will join us at our 2/27 conference to talk about fighting the "blue" hydrogen (hydrogen produced using natural gas) buildout in historically exploited communities along the Gulf Coast. Learn More:https://buff.ly/3CLBvmy

12.02.2025 17:54 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Dr Eric Lebel, senior scientist at PSE Healthy Energy will talk about the chemicals that leak from oil and gas wells long after they've fallen out of use, and what this means for those living near them. Join us in-person or online on Feb 27: https://buff.ly/3CLBvmy

13.02.2025 15:09 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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We're partnering with the Pennsylvania League of Women Voters and the Duquesne Department of Environmental and Energy Engineering for the "Shale Gas and Public Health: A New Direction" conference on Feb. 27 Learn more and register: https://buff.ly/3CLBvmy

14.02.2025 16:01 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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‘Test-drive’ an induction cooktop from the West Philly Tool Library Induction stoves are healthier and more efficient than gas, but they can be pricey. This tool offers an affordable way to try them out.

Induction stoves are better for your health than gas but can be pricey. The West Philly Tool Library recently acquired a pair for members to "test-drive" and showed them off in an event featuring PSR PA's Dr. Dan Woulk, who uses one for his own cooking.

15.02.2025 20:30 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Hazard NJ | Podcast | NJ Spotlight News | PBS Hazard NJ is a series examining prominent Superfund sites around New Jersey, and ways they're impacted by climate change. Hosted by journalist Jordan Gass-Poore'.

The show's latest season is all about PFAS: From its origins in a lab in New Jersey to the work being done to get rid of the chemicals once and for all.

16.02.2025 17:21 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Disrupted place attachments and emotional energy geography in fracked Appalachia To date, there has been limited analysis at the intersection of extractive industry and emotional geography. Our research addresses this intersection …

"We argue that gas extraction, production, and distribution are not only a physical construction but also a system of unfairness and marginalization that materializes in emotional, embodied harms to residents." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

09.02.2025 15:46 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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The Battle Over Philly’s Clean Hydrogen Revolution Depending on whom you ask, the MACH2 hydrogen hub could be the largest clean energy transformation the region will see this century — or an environmental disaster. And that's if it ever even happens.

The #HydrogenHub-bub. #NoMACH2 these hydrogen hubs are NOT green or CLEAN, they call it the they are using fossil fuels from #Fracking- a toxic extraction process which still has no solution for its radioactive waste stream. #CradleToGrave
www.phillymag.com/news/2025/02...

09.02.2025 15:34 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
https://www.salemnews.net/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/2025/02/vance-trump-need-to-do-more-for-ep-residents/

Please read and share this #LTE by Jess Conard, an impacted resident of #EastPalestine, Ohio, where the disastrous Norfolk Southern train derailment occurred 2 years this week: t.co/TMo6xsYiJr

02.02.2025 21:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sharing a collaboration I participated in which lead to the coauthoring of an article which has been accepted for publication in Emotion, Space, and Society. Title: "Disrupted place attachments and emotional energy geography in fracked Appalachia"
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

02.02.2025 21:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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27.11.2024 13:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Scientists Scramble to Save Climate Data from Trump—Again Federal climate databases remained largely intact during President-elect Donald Trump’s first term. Scientists say the threats are bigger this time

Scientists and govt watchdog groups are again preparing to archive federal climate datasets, concerned that they could vanish under the incoming Trump administration.

Links ⬇️ for subscribers and republished story in SciAm:
www.eenews.net/articles/sci...

www.scientificamerican.com/article/scie...

22.11.2024 19:28 👍 100 🔁 52 💬 4 📌 2
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Keystone Gas Gouge: Gas Export Push Could Stick Pennsylvania Consumers With $16 Billion Bill - Public Citizen

New Report - Keystone Gas Gouge: Gas Export Push Could Stick Pennsylvania Consumers With $16 Billion Bill #LosingwithLNG
www.citizen.org/article/keys...

25.11.2024 18:13 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0