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Climate Change Is Scaring Kids
You may be surprised to learn that climate denial isn’t really a thing in the United States anymore. Sure, there are a few people living...

Tonyehn Verkitus
Nov 19, 20214 min read


PSR PA Comments on EPA Draft Strategic Plan
Physicians for Social Responsibility Pennsylvania (PSR PA) promotes social responsibility by protecting health, the environment and...

Tonyehn Verkitus
Nov 18, 20212 min read


Physicians for Social Responsibility Pennsylvania (PSR PA) applauds Governor Wolf
Philadelphia, PA - Physicians for Social Responsibility Pennsylvania (PSR PA) applauds Governor Wolf for his formal order supporting and...

Tonyehn Verkitus
Nov 2, 20211 min read


Women Share Views on Climate Change for Drexel's Academy of Natural Sciences
Inspired by the book All We Can Save, a celebration of the feminist climate renaissance, 15 local women, including PSR PA Executive...

Tonyehn Verkitus
Oct 27, 20211 min read


Climate and Health
The World Health Organization states that climate change is “the greatest health challenge of the 21st century.” The pope has called...

Tonyehn Verkitus
Oct 27, 20213 min read


Cradle to Grave: The Reverberating Health Hazards of Oil and Gas Industry
PSR PA is excited to share a virtual, half-day conference on a very important issue. The event, Cradle to Grave: The Reverberating Health...

Tonyehn Verkitus
Sep 23, 20212 min read


PA Local Leaders Call for Build Back Better Budget (BBBB), an Energy & Environmental Justice Bill
From raging wildfires in the West to historic “100-year floods” in the East, the extreme weather events of this summer have offered us a...

Tonyehn Verkitus
Sep 7, 20212 min read


PA Department of Health Visits Communities and Families Impacted by Shale Gas Development
On July 27, the Pennsylvania Department of Health (DOH) visited communities and people impacted by shale gas development (fracking) in...

Tonyehn Verkitus
Aug 5, 20214 min read


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
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