PSE Healthy Energy - In the Media

February 12, 2025

We Energies' Conversion to Gas Plants Would Lead to ER Vists, Deaths, Science Study PredictsAccording to the recent analysis by the Union of Concerned Scientists, Healthy Climate Wisconsin and PSE Healthy Energy, the proposed Oak Creek and Paris gas plants could result in hundreds of premature deaths and emergency room visits. Further, the two gas plants may burden residents with upwards of $191.5 million in health care costs each year.

Milwaukee Journal

January 30, 2025

Startling Experiment Reveals Invisible Dangers of Common Kitchen ApplianceA new analysis shows the construction of two new fossil gas power plants would have substantial negative health consequences for Wisconsin and surrounding communities.

The Cooldown

December 19, 2024

Gas Stoves Pollute the Air Inside Your Home. Here’s How to Keep it CleanPerhaps you’ve heard that pollution from gas stoves can harm your health. What can you do to minimize your risk of exposure?

LAist

December 12, 2024

Cooking with Gas Creates Unhealthy Work EnvironmentsEven with ventilation, commercial kitchens can have air pollution levels that exceed health-related limits.

Eos

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

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