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Iran: Can we find an offramp?

June 24, 2019 Comments Off on Iran: Can we find an offramp?

When it was originally debated in Congress, PSR advocated for the Iran nuclear agreement (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action).  President Trump made a wrong turn when he unilaterally withdrew the…

With support from PSR, House of Representatives votes to stop new nuclear weapons in Trump’s budget

June 24, 2019 Comments Off on With support from PSR, House of Representatives votes to stop new nuclear weapons in Trump’s budget

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…

Gov. Wolf, examine the health risks of fracking

June 23, 2019 Comments Off on Gov. Wolf, examine the health risks of fracking

Letter to the Editor in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette by Tammy Murphy, PSR Pennsylvania.

Prohibition of nuclear weapons an ongoing struggle

June 22, 2019 Comments Off on Prohibition of nuclear weapons an ongoing struggle

Interview on the Scholar’s Circle podcast with PSR board member Ira Helfand, MD.

The Growing Case against Fracking

June 21, 2019 Comments Off on The Growing Case against Fracking

Article from the Progressive featuring the fracking science Compendium by PSR and Concerned Health Professionals of NY.

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.

Drilling rigs

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.