PSE Healthy Energy - In the Media

November 13, 2024

Seth Shonkoff: When it comes to health, the science is clear on gas appliancesA growing body of scientific research demonstrates that air pollution from gas has significant costs for public health and safety.

Vancouver Sun

November 08, 2024

Mass. officials aim to decarbonize power plants coming online during peak usage“(Oil and gas plants) tend to be less efficient than other fossil fuel gas plants on the grid,” said Elena Krieger, director of research at policy institute PSE Health Energy. “In Massachusetts, there’s more oil burning plants than in most other states, and they have higher pollutant emissions.”

Wickedlocal.com

October 29, 2024

Is Cooking on a Gas Stove Affecting the Air Quality in Your Home? Here's What Experts SayGas stoves are not just a risk to human health, though. “Methane leaks from gas stoves into people's homes even while [the stove] is off,” said Eric Lebel, Ph.D., a senior scientist at PSE Health Energy.

EatingWell

October 28, 2024

How Bad Are Gas Stoves for My Health?“In the U.S., outdoor concentrations of nitrogen oxides are down, which is good news, but at the same time we’re not keeping up with cleaning up indoor air,” said Yannai Kashtan, an air quality scientist with PSE Healthy Energy.

New York Times

October 16, 2024

Groups Seek to Include Resilience and Other Benefits in California Energy Planning, Giving DERs – Including Microgrids – a Boost“These methods fail to account for equity impacts and also don't capture impacts that might be hard to convert to dollar values,” Murphy said. PSE Healthy Energy is looking at placing a value on resilience based on income.

Microgrid Knowledge

September 28, 2024

California Governor Rejects Health Warnings on Gas StovesThat ubiquity is part of why most people consider gas stoves safe. But “the weight of the scientific evidence at this point does not support that,” said Seth Shonkoff, executive director of research institute PSE Healthy Energy.

Bloomberg

September 16, 2024

In Arid New Mexico, a Debate Over Reusing Oil-Industry WastewaterAnd Seth Shonkoff, an environmental health scientist and executive director of California-based research institute PSE Healthy Energy, said, “there’s not off-the-shelf, affordable ways to monitor” all the chemicals in produced water.

Undark

September 13, 2024

What's the Health Risk of Abandoned and Orphan Oil and Gas Wells? Pa. Regulators Want to KnowHe said there is a general lack of research on the topic, citing only one study in which the DEP worked with the nonprofit research and policy institute PSE Healthy Energy to collect gas samples from four dozen plugged and unplugged abandoned wells in southwestern Pennsylvania.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

September 10, 2024

There Are Real Health Risks to Cooking With a Gas Stove. Here’s How to Protect Yourself, According to ExpertsPhysicians, Scientists, and Engineers for Healthy Energy (PSE) measured mean benzene emissions from gas and propane stove burners set on high and ovens set to 350 degrees Fahrenheit, and results ranged anywhere from 2.8 to 6.5 micrograms per minute (μg min–1).

Well+Good

August 10, 2024

Ranchers Reported Abandoned Oil Wells Spewing Wastewater. A New Study Blames Fracking.In 2022, DiGiulio conducted a review of Ohio’s wastewater injection program for the group Physicians, Scientists, and Engineers for Healthy Energy and found the same two problems there: Injected fluids were leaking from some formations meant to contain them, and excessive injections were causing other formations to become overpressurized.

The Texas Tribune

August 09, 2024

U.S. Fire Departments Spent Over Half a Billion Dollars on Gas Leak Responses in 2018, Study FindsEvery three minutes, a fire department responds to a suspected gas leak in the U.S. Now, new research suggests these emergencies place a significant burden on first responders and taxpayers.

Clean Technica

August 06, 2024

California Alcanza el 100% de Energía Limpia en 100 Días ConsecutivosSegún un estudio de investigación de PSE Healthy Energy, el 84% de las plantas de gas de California están ubicadas en comunidades desfavorecidas, lo que afecta desproporcionadamente a las poblaciones de bajos ingresos y minoritarias.

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