For Immediate Release This week Governor Hochul took a momentous step toward moving the state’s buildings off fossil fuels, championing both ending fossil fuels in newly constructed buildings and transitioning the state’s existing buildings away from our reliance on fracked gas. The move came days after the release of new research which found that gas stoves are responsible for […]
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For immediate release Media contact: Carolyn Raffensperger, (515) 450-2320, raffenspergerc@cs.com Health Professionals and Scientists Groups Launch New Partnership to Address Fracking’s Environmental Justice and Community Impacts Biologist and author, Sandra Steingraber, PhD, named senior scientist at SEHN Two leading organizations of health professionals and scientists focused on environmental harms, Concerned Health Professionals of New York […]
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, November 17, 2016 Contact: Danielle Filson, danielle.filson@berlinrosen.com, 646-335-0443 Call for a Halt to Fracking given Overwhelming Scientific Evidence of Risks and Harms State and national doctors’ organizations released a comprehensive report on the science and impacts of fracking Authored by Physicians for Social Responsibility and Concerned Health Professionals of New York, […]
Nobel Peace Prize-Winning Org Partner with Concerned Health Professionals of New York to Release New Comprehensive Report and Analysis of Hundreds of Peer-Reviewed Studies Showing Fracking Cannot Be Done Safely Groups send letters about health impacts and calling for moratorium WASHINGTON, DC (Wednesday, October 14) – A partnership of prominent health organizations encompassing nationwide medical […]
Nobel Peace Prize-winning org release third edition of comprehensive fracking science report with first time analysis of risks of gas infrastructure expansion, including pipelines and compressor stations Orgs send letters to President Obama, PA, and MD governors about health impacts and calling for moratorium ALBANY, NY (Wednesday, October 14, 2015)- A partnership encompassing nationwide medical […]
Nobel Peace Prize-Winning Org Partner with Concerned Health Professionals of New York to Release New Comprehensive Report and Analysis of Hundreds of Peer-Reviewed Studies Showing Fracking Cannot Be Done Safely Groups send letters about health impacts and calling for moratorium WASHINGTON, DC (Wednesday, October 14) – A partnership of prominent health organizations encompassing nationwide medical […]
New Analysis and Science Answer Governor Cuomo’s Concerns about Science: Studies Overwhelmingly Show Public Health Hazards and Risks Health Professionals Urge Governor Cuomo to Enact 3-5 Year Moratorium on Fracking given Scientific Studies and Trends Albany – Health professionals and scientists released two new, independent summations of the state of the science on the risks and […]
On behalf of Concerned Health Professionals of New York, Larysa Dyrszka, MD and Sandra Steingraber, PhD released the following statement in response to Governor Cuomo’s comments on Thursday about arguments on both sides of the fracking debate. “As scientists and health professionals who have closely followed the science on drilling and fracking for many years, we respectfully take issue […]
Albany – Health experts and scientific researchers with Concerned Health Professionals of New York held a press conference in Albany today to release a major new compilation – a Compendium – of the scientific, medical and media findings demonstrating risks and harms of fracking. The document is systematically organized in a manner accessible to public […]
by Larysa Dyrszka, MD; Kathleen Nolan, MD, MSL; and Sandra Steingraber, PhD Early results from an on-the-ground, public health assesment in Washington County, Pennsylvania, indicate that environmental contamination is occurring near natural gas drilling sites and is the likely cause of associated illnesses. We are alarmed by these preliminary findings. They show that—after only six […]
Letter’s Signatories Call for NY State-Specific Health Impact Assessment and Public Participation in Health Review Process Albany, NY – Hundreds of medical professionals, health organizations, environmental, national and statewide leaders, and a hundred and fifty elected officials released a letter today calling on Governor Cuomo to let three public health studies cited by New York […]
State’s Health Review Discredited by Revelation that After Finishing Review, Outside Health Reviewer has Major Gaps in Understanding of Critical Health Issues Related to High Volume Fracking in NYS (Albany) – Concerned Health Professionals of NY released a joint statement declaring New York State’s health impact assessment grossly inadequate and flawed. Following completion of his analysis […]
Approaching Dec. 3 Deadline, NY Health Professionals Call on Independent Reviewers to Demand a Comprehensive Health Impact Assessment (Albany)—Following the November 27 launch of the Concerned Health Professionals of NY initiative, the group of medical experts released an eight-minute video appeal to the three independent health experts contracted by the Department of Health to review […]
(Albany)— Led by Dr. David O. Carpenter, Director of the Institute for Health and the Environment at the University at Albany’s School of Public Health, a number of health experts launched a new initiative, “Concerned Health Professionals of New York” (www.concernedhealthny.org) to outline the health risks of fracking and to renew their call for an independent, comprehensive […]