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In Sierra magazine, PSR Environment & Health Director Barbara Gottlieb discusses how the inadequate Affordable Clean Energy rule—the Trump Administration’s replacement for the Clean Power Plan—fails to reduce carbon emissions and endangers health.
A major new report by PSR and Concerned Health Professionals of NY compiles, tracks, and analyzes key trends about drilling, fracking, and its infrastructure, and demonstrates that there are pervasive, grave misunderstandings about the effects of natural gas and fracking.
The sixth edition of the fracking “Compendium” has just been released. PSR is proud to partner with Concerned Health Professionals of New York in preparing and rolling out this volume, which provides abstracts and electronic links to an almost encyclopedic compilation of reports, peer-reviewed articles and investigative reporting on fracking’s dangerous impacts on health.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released their finalized Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule, replacing the Clean Power Plan. The Clean Power Plan, the first-ever federal policy to reduce harmful carbon pollution from existing power plants, would have achieved meaningful reductions in those emissions, while the ACE rule sets no carbon pollution limits on power plants.
Op-ed in Common Dreams by Olivia Alperstein, PSR Media Relations Manager.
There’s a new nuclear weapon that’s intended to lower the threshold for nuclear war: the “W76-2” warhead, a.k.a. the “easy-fire nuke.” This weapon has been branded rather euphemistically as a…
The Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station closed permanently on May 31! Pilgrim, located in Plymouth on Cape Cod Bay, was the only nuclear power plant operating in Massachusetts.
Article in Circulation, a journal of the American Heart Association, co-authored by PSR members James E. Muller, MD, and John O. Pastore, MD.
Cover story op-ed in the Progressive by Dr. Ira Helfand, PSR board member.
Op-ed in the Progressive by Martin Fleck, PSR’s Nuclear Weapons Abolition Program Director.