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Amid fracking boom, Pennsylvania faces toxic wastewater reckoning“What happens when the party stops, and there’s a huge glut of produced water?” asked Seth Shonkoff, an environmental scientist who is executive director of Physicians, Scientists and Engineers (PSE) for Healthy Energy. He said disposal of waste is “an Achilles heel of the industry.”

Lawsuit challenges Wyo gas field threatening GTNP pronghornA recently published peer-reviewed study from Boston University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, PSE Healthy Energy and the Environmental Defense Fund has found that oil and gas fields are directly impacting Wyoming’s air quality and the health of its residents.

Wyoming air quality affected by oil and gas, study findsResearchers from Boston University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, PSE Healthy Energy and the Environmental Defense Fund compared emissions of a trio of pollutants — nitrogen oxide, ozone and fine particulates — to rates of respiratory and cardiovascular hospitalization and childhood asthma in 2016.

Oil and Gas Production Linked to $77B in Annual Health Care CostsA pioneering study led by the Boston University School of Public Health, the University of North Carolina Institute for the Environment, PSE Healthy Energy, and the Environmental Defense Fund has shed light on the health impacts of air Pollution from oil and gas operations. Published in Environmental Research: Health, this research provides a wake-up call for us all.

The annual US health cost of oil and gas production is $77B – here’s how we fix thatThe study is called “Air pollution and health impacts of oil & gas production in the United States.” It was published in the journal Environmental Research: Health and was led by the Boston University School of Public Health, the University of North Carolina Institute for the Environment, PSE Healthy Energy, and the Environmental Defense Fund.

Oil and gas health impacts cost $77 billion per year, study findsNitrogen oxide was the largest contributor to the overall health impacts, followed by ozone and then fine particulate matter, according to researchers at Boston University School of Public Health, the University of North Carolina Institute for the Environment, PSE Healthy Energy and the Environmental Defense Fund.

Air pollution from oil and gas industry costs $77bn in US health impacts each yearAir pollution linked to the industry led to 7,500 excess deaths, more than 400,000 asthma attacks and 2,200 new cases of childhood asthma in 2016, according to a study compiled by Boston University School of Public Health, University of North Carolina Institute for the Environment, PSE Healthy Energy, and the Environmental Defense Fund.

Oil and gas production linked to $77 billion in annual health care costsAiming to address this gap, a collaborative study led by the Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH), the University of North Carolina Institute for the Environment (UNC-IE), PSE Healthy Energy, and Environmental Defense Fund has been published in the journal Environmental Research: Health.

Air Pollution from Oil and Gas Production Contributes to Thousands of Early Deaths, Childhood Asthma Cases NationwideA new study led by the School of Public Health, the University of North Carolina Institute for the Environment (UNC-IE), PSE Healthy Energy, and Environmental Defense Fund fills this gap.

New York law to prohibit natural gas in most new buildsEric Lebel, a senior scientist for PSE Health Energy, previously told Scripps News there are two main concerns that gas stoves pose. One is that stoves can emit methane gas, which is a potent greenhouse gas...

Failing to Meet Our Climate Goals Is Not an OptionAccording to PSE Healthy Energy, a nonprofit research institute that looked into current decarbonization policies in three western states, the policies that center communities with heavy pollution burdens and high energy costs result in more significant public health and economic benefits than policies that focus solely on lowering emissions. What’s more, decarbonization policies that don’t account for equity could inadvertently prolong a community’s exposure to pollutants.

How the Clean Air Act lets closed coal plants keep polluting for yearsA loophole allows power plants to collect emissions allowances after they close, and there is a huge volume of credits on the market that will take years to work their way through the system.