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Trump’s EPA Calls for Dirty Power As Climate Crisis Accelerates

June 20, 2019 Comments Off on Trump’s EPA Calls for Dirty Power As Climate Crisis Accelerates

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.

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New Analysis of Fracking Science Finds Serious Harms to Public Health, Environment, and Climate

June 19, 2019 Comments Off on New Analysis of Fracking Science Finds Serious Harms to Public Health, Environment, and Climate

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.

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New Fracking “Compendium” Now Available

June 19, 2019 Comments Off on New Fracking “Compendium” Now Available

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.

Physicians for Social Responsibility: Finalized ACE Rule Puts People’s Health at Risk

June 19, 2019 Comments Off on Physicians for Social Responsibility: Finalized ACE Rule Puts People’s Health at Risk

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.

The Climate Crisis Is Also a Health Emergency

June 12, 2019 Comments Off on The Climate Crisis Is Also a Health Emergency

Op-ed in Common Dreams by Olivia Alperstein, PSR Media Relations Manager.

No rubber stamp this time: Congressional champions are resisting President Trump’s request to fund controversial “easy-fire” nukes

June 11, 2019 Comments Off on No rubber stamp this time: Congressional champions are resisting President Trump’s request to fund controversial “easy-fire” nukes

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…

Greater Boston PSR Celebrates Closure of Nuclear Power Plant

June 6, 2019 Comments Off on Greater Boston PSR Celebrates Closure of Nuclear Power Plant

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.

Cardiac Events and Nuclear War: Prevention by Cardiovascular Specialists

June 4, 2019 Comments Off on Cardiac Events and Nuclear War: Prevention by Cardiovascular Specialists

Article in Circulation, a journal of the American Heart Association, co-authored by PSR members James E. Muller, MD, and John O. Pastore, MD.

Ban the Bomb – Before Our Luck Runs Out

June 1, 2019 Comments Off on Ban the Bomb – Before Our Luck Runs Out

Cover story op-ed in the Progressive by Dr. Ira Helfand, PSR board member.

What a Nuclear War Would Mean

June 1, 2019 Comments Off on What a Nuclear War Would Mean

Op-ed in the Progressive by Martin Fleck, PSR’s Nuclear Weapons Abolition Program Director.