fracking & methane

Not Just Another Pipeline

December 28, 2020

New York Times – The expansion of Enbridge’s Line 3 pipeline is a breathtaking betrayal of Minnesota’s Indigenous communities — and the environment.

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Connection Between Natural Gas Stoves and Pediatric Asthma

September 30, 2020

Massachusetts Medical Society’s Vital Signs published this article including GBPSR board member Dr. Brita Lundberg regarding the 2019 resolution regarding Gas Stoves & Asthma.

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GB PSR Raises Awareness of the Association Between Indoor Air Pollution from Cooking with Gas and Asthma in Children

May 5, 2020
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Informing Public Opinion

January 9, 2020
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Massachusetts Medical Society resolution recognizes health link between gas cooking and asthma

January 6, 2020

The Massachusetts Medical Society approved the resolution on December 7, 2019 recognizing the association between the use of gas stoves, indoor nitrogen dioxide levels, and asthma.

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The False Promise of Natural Gas

December 4, 2019

Article in The New England Journal of Medicine by Greater Boston PSR’s Philip J. Landrigan, MD, Howard Frumkin, MD, DrPH, and Brita E. Lundberg, MD.

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New Report from GBPSR: Weymouth Project Is Dangerous to Human Health

September 24, 2019

Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility has released its third comprehensive report regarding a 7,700-horsepower natural gas compressor station that Spectra Energy plans to build in Weymouth, Massachusetts. The report—a…

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Greater Boston PSR demands an immediate halt to Weymouth Compressor construction, calling it a danger to health, a danger to safety, and a danger to our Massachusetts community

September 23, 2019

Tomorrow, September 24, Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility is releasing its third comprehensive report regarding a 7,700-horsepower natural gas compressor station that Spectra Energy plans to build in Weymouth, Massachusetts.

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GBPSR members rally to demand that National Grid #FixBigGasLeaks because Boston should not be lagging behind on clean energy. (July 2019)

July 31, 2019

Read more at the Boston Globe

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Greater Boston PSR Opposes Dangerous New Methane (“Natural Gas”) Infrastructure Plans

June 27, 2019

As physicians concerned about the twin man-made threats to human survival—climate change and nuclear weapons—Greater Boston PSR would generally oppose major infrastructure that locks our energy system more firmly into…

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