PSE Healthy Energy - In the Media

April 11, 2024

Explosive levels of methane have been detected near a Berkeley landfill-turned-park“That is a significant concern from a safety perspective,” said Seth Shonkoff, director of the Oakland-based nonprofit research group PSE Healthy Energy. “Unless there’s some sort of subsurface migration of methane to the surface, you should not see that level of that magnitude, ever.”

Los Angeles Times

March 27, 2024

Berkeley halts landmark natural gas ban after legal fightGas ban supporters have also cited public health as a rationale. A 2023 study from Stanford University and nonprofit PSE Healthy Energy found that cooking with gas stoves can expose people to roughly the same cancer risk as breathing secondhand cigarette smoke.

Los Angeles Times

March 21, 2024

For residents of Clairton, progress on air quality feels a long way off“We wanted to answer the question of whether decreases in emissions have been equitable across demographic groups,” said Yanelli Núñez, an environmental health scientist at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, who was the lead author of the study.

Pennsylvania Capital-Star

March 18, 2024

The steel industry is important, but is it worth kids getting asthma?“We found that the median household income plays a major role in the decrease of emissions for all pollution sectors, except agriculture,” said Núñez, who is also a scientist at PSE Healthy Energy, a nonprofit research institute. “The higher that income the larger the decrease in emissions.”

PennLive.com

March 18, 2024

In the ‘Armpit of the Universe,’ a Window Into the Persistent Inequities of Environmental Policy“We wanted to answer the question of whether decreases in emissions have been equitable across demographic groups,” said Yanelli Núñez, an environmental health scientist at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, who was the lead author of the study.

Inside Climate News

March 03, 2024

New $1 Million Ad Casts Gas Stoves In ‘Toxic’ Reality TV Role: ‘We’re All Cancer!’At this rate, yearly leaks from all natural gas stoves in the U.S. take an equivalent toll on the climate as the annual carbon dioxide emissions from 500,000 passenger vehicles, according to a recent peer-reviewed study from researchers at Stanford University and the laboratory PSE Healthy Energy.

Yahoo! News

February 09, 2024

Ask a Scientist: Gas Power Plants Disproportionately Harm Marginalized CommunitiesMeanwhile, on the West Coast, a 2017 PSE Healthy Energy study found that nearly half of California’s gas power plants are in communities that are among the state’s 25 percent most disadvantaged neighborhoods.

The Equation

February 02, 2024

Richmond Bridge Bike Path Has an Amazing View — and an Uncertain FutureAccording to a 2022 study by PSE Healthy Energy, fine particulate matter concentrations “were generally elevated and hovered around or exceeded the federal National Ambient Air Quality Standards 3-year annual average in many Richmond-San Pablo neighborhoods.”

KQED

January 30, 2024

Why a natural gas storage climate ‘disaster’ could happen againThe release of gas from Rager Mountain in November 2022 represented about 15% of the field’s working storage volume. Underground storage fields act as “a huge battery system,” says Drew Michanowicz, a researcher who has studied their proximity to residential areas.

Energy News Network

January 25, 2024

Canada’s Tar Sands Are a Much Larger Source of Air Pollution Than Previously Thought, Study SaysSeth Shonkoff, executive director of PSE Healthy Energy, an independent scientific research institute in California, who was not involved in the study, said the findings suggest air pollution from tar sands operations is more damaging to people’s health than previously known.

Inside Climate News

January 22, 2024

Twin Cities residents push for environmental justice; combatting the effects of environmental racismAccording to research conducted by PSE Healthy Energy, the HERC’s pollution has led to $16 million in health damages, making it the “most impactful facility in Hennepin County.”

MinnPost

January 17, 2024

U.S. Air Pollution Rates Decline but Pockets of Inequities Remain“The analyses provide insight on the socio-demographic characteristics of counties that have experienced disproportionate decreases in air pollution emissions over the last forty years,” said Yanelli Nunez, PhD, the study’s first author and a scientist in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia Mailman School who is affiliated with PSE Healthy Energy.

Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

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