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Oregon PSR helps pass Portland Clean Energy Initiative

December 13, 2018 Comments Off on Oregon PSR helps pass Portland Clean Energy Initiative

Oregon PSR helped pass the landmark Portland Clean Energy Initiative, the nation’s first-ever clean energy fund for climate justice. The Initiative will raise $30 million annually to invest in renewable energy,…

Powerful op-ed sounds PSR’s themes

December 13, 2018 Comments Off on Powerful op-ed sounds PSR’s themes

Two PSR/Washington physicians, Michael Soman, MD and Mark Vossler, MD, published a powerful op-ed article recently in the Seattle Times. “Climate Change is Killing Our Patients” presents with great cogency a…

PSR Helps Raise Health at COP 24 Climate Talks

December 12, 2018 Comments Off on PSR Helps Raise Health at COP 24 Climate Talks

As the nations of the world meet in Poland to discuss compliance with the Paris Climate Accords, PSR national board president Pouné Saberi, MD coauthored an article asking: Where is…

Scientists Discuss Federal Report on Climate Change

December 4, 2018 Comments Off on Scientists Discuss Federal Report on Climate Change

Radio interview with PSR’s Todd Sack, MD on the new U.S. government report on climate change.

Proposed new FL legislation aims to protect students from lead exposure at school

November 29, 2018 Comments Off on Proposed new FL legislation aims to protect students from lead exposure at school

PSR Florida’s Dr. Lynn Ringenberg discusses the health effects of toxic lead exposure.

Global outrage needed anew to preserve nuclear-arms treaty

November 29, 2018 Comments Off on Global outrage needed anew to preserve nuclear-arms treaty

Op-ed by Washington PSR’s Dr. Bruce Amundson in the Seattle Times.

New ICAN Cities Appeal Inspired by PSR’s Work in American Cities

November 27, 2018 Comments Off on New ICAN Cities Appeal Inspired by PSR’s Work in American Cities

Earlier this month, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) launched its new Cities Appeal, ICAN Save My City, a global campaign to persuade cities to express support for the…

Greater Boston PSR Opposes Proposed Compressor Station

November 26, 2018 Comments Off on Greater Boston PSR Opposes Proposed Compressor Station

PSR members in Virginia have been fighting a proposed fracked-gas compressor station for years. Now, Greater Boston PSR has raised health concerns about a compressor station proposed for their area.…

Air Pollution Is Killing Kids, But Trump’s EPA Doesn’t Seem To Care

November 21, 2018 Comments Off on Air Pollution Is Killing Kids, But Trump’s EPA Doesn’t Seem To Care

Op-ed by Eric Sullivan, Student PSR member and fourth-year medical student, in Huffington Post.

Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod

November 20, 2018 Comments Off on Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod

Podcast interview with PSR’s Dr. Robert Gould on the health and environmental impacts of the California wildfires.