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