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Interview with Dusty Horwitt on PFAS Precursors in Oil and Gas Extraction
After Physicians for Social Responsibility released Fracking with Forever Chemicals and hosted the informative webinar Exposé on Use in...

Tonyehn Verkitus
Jul 27, 20214 min read


Meeting 4 with PA DOH - An Unaccounted For $1.4 Million
PSR PA Medical Advocacy Director Tammy Murphy and colleagues met with the PA DOH for a fourth time. These meetings have centered on two...

Tonyehn Verkitus
Jun 18, 20211 min read
CHP-PA Statement on Fracking Waste Management in PA
Fracking endangers health and contaminates the Earth at every stage in its process. Many people are familiar with the harmful impacts of...

Tonyehn Verkitus
May 28, 20211 min read


Air pollution is a Preventable Danger to Health
Ambient air pollution is a pressing danger to health, especially in children. This fact is recognized and explained in a recent policy...

Tonyehn Verkitus
May 21, 20212 min read


Children and Climate Change: The Burden They Experience Now
Climate change is often described as a problem for future generations, for our children or even our children’s children. Though this may...

Tonyehn Verkitus
Apr 30, 20211 min read


It’s Time to Switch to Green Energy PA!
Although the Biden administration has committed to halting the production of oil and gas development in America, it has done little to...

Tonyehn Verkitus
Mar 29, 20211 min read


Meeting 3 with PA DOH - Radioactive Waste Streams Are Not Explicitly Excluded from Investigation
On March 2, PSR PA and Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Project met with the Pennsylvania Department of Health (PA DOH) for a...

Tonyehn Verkitus
Mar 12, 20212 min read


The Insidious and Ignored Impacts of Fracking in Southwest Pennsylvania (SWPA)
Last week, Pulitzer Prize winner Eliza Griswold’s investigative report, When the Kids Started Getting Sick was published in The New...

Tonyehn Verkitus
Mar 10, 20212 min read


Air Pollution and COVID-19: A Dangerous Combination
A recent study released by PSR National, Air Pollution and COVID-19: A Dangerous Combination, assessed the link between air pollution...

Tonyehn Verkitus
Feb 22, 20211 min read


Introducing Concerned Health Professionals of Pennsylvania (CHP-PA)!
On January 28, 2021, PSRPA launched our new initiative, Concerned Health Professionals of Pennsylvania (CHP-PA). This is a group of...

Tonyehn Verkitus
Feb 17, 20211 min read


Shining Star of 2021, Amanda Gorman, Takes on the Climate Crisis
In 2021, we have seen 22-year-old Amana Gorman shine. She was the star of the Inauguration ceremony and the opening act of the Superbowl,...

Tonyehn Verkitus
Feb 12, 20211 min read


Biden’s Plan to “Build Back Better” Fails to Better Health for PA Residents
One of Joe Biden’s promises as he ascended into the Office of the Presidency was to “build back better”. This tagline referred to his...

Tonyehn Verkitus
Feb 10, 20211 min read


Don't Forget the Children
By Colette C. Mull, MD, MA Twenty-two percent (22%) of the US population is under 18 years of age.1 Fewer children than adults are...

Tonyehn Verkitus
Aug 24, 20206 min read


The Air We Breathe
As we near the end of the hottest summer on record, both in the Philadelphia area, our nation, and the entire world, we can look forward...

Tonyehn Verkitus
Aug 22, 20202 min read


Philadelphia We Have a Problem
As information comes out daily around COVID-19, there are communities who are bracing for the disproportionate impact this will have on...

Tonyehn Verkitus
Mar 26, 20203 min read



Tonyehn Verkitus
Jan 20, 20200 min read


DC Fire Drill with Jane Fonda!
Through working with Alliance of Nurses for a Health Environment, PSR PA's MEdical Advocacy Coordinator Laura Dagley joined over 60 other...

Tonyehn Verkitus
Dec 23, 20191 min read


Celebrating 40 Years!
On Sunday, December 8th We celebrated our 40th Anniversary at the Gorgeous and Historic Oaks Cloister. It was a magical evening in what...

Tonyehn Verkitus
Dec 10, 20191 min read
UPDATE: Gov. Wolf Responds!
On November 18th PSR PA and our partners confronted Gov. Wolf and other members of the state government in a day of action that...

Tonyehn Verkitus
Nov 27, 20191 min read


Gov. Wolf Gets Confronted!
On November 18th PSR PA organized for families affected by unconventional gas development (aka Fracking) to meet in the state Capitol....

Tonyehn Verkitus
Nov 26, 20191 min read
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