May 7, 2026
After decades of advocacy, we won strong, health-protective coal ash standards in 2015 and 2024. Now, EPA wants to roll them back. Earlier this year, we asked you to submit comments in defense of federal protections when they proposed a delay of enforcement. EPA’s...
Mar 27, 2026
Reviewed by Paige Knappenberger, Environment & Health Director While I imagine the non-scientific science experiment at the heart of the film might make it challenging for some scientists to stomach it, Netflix’s new documentary on the health harms of plastics The...
Jan 23, 2026
In the Trump administration’s latest attempt to revive the coal industry, EPA wants to delay closure deadlines for coal ash ponds. The same facilities creating the coal ash are also being granted the opportunity to continue operating past their planned retirement...
Jul 21, 2025
EPA needs to hear from health professionals as they attempt to repeal consequential emissions standards for mercury and other hazardous air pollutants. In another dangerous move from this administration, EPA seeks to expose millions of Americans to mercury, arsenic,...
May 28, 2025
The Guardian “We thought that the Colorado law was going to break through the culture of secrecy that surrounds the use of potentially toxic chemicals in oil and gas production,” said Dusty Horwitt, an attorney and researcher who was lead author on the analysis, which...
May 22, 2025
This month, PSR and the PSR Colorado chapter took a big jump forward in our years-long campaign to protect Coloradoans from one of the many troubling health harms of fracking–the secret, noxious chemicals the industry uses to pump oil and gas out of the ground. In a...