Don’t let EPA weaken coal ash safeguards

Don’t let EPA weaken coal ash safeguards

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...
Film Review: The Plastic Detox

Film Review: The Plastic Detox

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...
Tell EPA to protect our health from dirty coal ash

Tell EPA to protect our health from dirty coal ash

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...
Tell EPA: Protect health, regulate hazardous air pollution!

Tell EPA: Protect health, regulate hazardous air pollution!

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,...
No More Fracking Secrets in Colorado

No More Fracking Secrets in Colorado

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...