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Nuclear Weapons Abolition
PSR's Nuclear Weapons Abolition Program amplifies the health professional voice to increase and broaden grassroots support for nuclear weapons abolition.
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Environment & Health
PSR's Environment and Health Program amplifies the voices of health professionals to advocate for strong action to avert catastrophic climate change and promote clean, healthy, safe energy.
Recent News
Protect Carbon emissions standards! Submit a comment to EPA
Oppose EPA’s plan to weaken carbon pollution standards for power plants. Submit your comment with help from PSR’s talking points!
The Deadly, Dangerous Bill: Physicians for Social Responsibility Responds to Budget Reconciliation Passage
The federal government is stealing healthcare and food assistance from tens of millions of people who need it the most, tearing apart families by targeting immigrants (regardless of status), raising energy bills in the midst of an affordability crisis, and ensuring people will die without access to lifesaving resources.
“Extreme Weather People’s Hearing” held in Asheville, NC
On June 18, PSR National and PSR’s Western North Carolina Chapter co-sponsored an “Extreme Weather People’s Hearing” in Asheville, together with local and national partners.
Dangerous Extreme Heat Event Rattles Half of the Continental United States
A crushing early-season heat wave is currently impacting 174 million people in the United States, from the Great Plains to much of the East Coast. As human-caused climate change continues to get worse, these dangerous extreme heat events are becoming more frequent and more deadly.
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We Need Your Help
PSR advocates on the issues you care about by addressing the dangers that threaten communities, using our medical and public health expertise to prevent nuclear war and proliferation, reverse our trajectory towards climate change, protect the public from the harms of fracking and expand clean, renewable energy.
Upcoming Events
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Jul & Aug
2025
Nationwide · July 16, August 6, and August 9, 2025
Join PSR in commemorating 80 years since the start of the nuclear age. PSR chapters, local organizers, and other groups across the country will be joining together this summer to commemorate these horrific events.
St. Francis Basilica Catholic Mass
Archbishop John Wester will dedicate his homily to the Trinity Test and a future world free of nuclear weapons.
Featured Resources
Oil & Gas Chemicals Still Secret in Colorado
PSR Colorado, Sierra Club Colorado, PSR National and FrackTracker detail how oil and gas companies in the state pumped millions of pounds of secret chemicals into the ground without making legally mandated disclosures.
The Future at Stake: AI and Nuclear Weapons
Panel webinar exploring how artificial intelligence impacts nuclear weapons systems, security, and dialogues.
