PSE Healthy Energy - In the Media

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

January 01, 2024

Gas appliances raise health and climate risks. Should Missourians ditch them?Eric Lebel, a senior scientist at PSE Healthy Energy, a California-based nonprofit research institute, was one of the first to make the connection between gas cooking appliances and health and climate effects. In 2022, he led a study on greenhouse gas emissions from natural gas stoves, cooktops and ovens.

Columbia Missourian

November 30, 2023

Sacramento’s Mexican restaurants are considering switching to electric cooking. Here’s whyAnother Lebel-led study released in October 2022 surveyed homes in Sacramento and elsewhere and captured nationwide attention when it indicated California household gas stoves and appliances annually release as much benzene, a carcinogen linked to leukemia, as 58,800 cars. Unlike with cars, though, that benzene mostly stays confined within a home.

The Sacramento Bee

November 04, 2023

Richmond-San Rafael Bridge bike path trial run endsProponents for the westbound third lane also cited a recent state-funded study published by PSE Healthy Energy, a nonprofit research institute in Oakland, that showed Richmond communities near Interstate 580 and Interstate 80 are experiencing significantly higher exposure to harmful pollutants linked to respiratory, cardiovascular and neurological diseases.

Marin Independent Journal

October 30, 2023

Bikes or cars? The battle over one Bay Area bridge lane is heating upHowever, the lead author of the study, PSE senior scientist Boris Lukanov, said the statements in the advertisements are misleading. “Our report does not reach such broad sweeping conclusions,” he said, explaining that researchers did not evaluate traffic congestion and did not look at a particular highway or neighborhood, and certainly did not study the effects an additional lane would have on air quality.

San Francisco Chronicle

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