Campaign Update

Is Your State Resolved to Prevent Nuclear War?

February 22, 2019

Now more than ever, with the United States’ planned withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, new so-called “low-yield” nuclear weapons going into production, a U.S. President who’s determined…

EPA Seeks to Allow More CO2 Emissions from Coal

February 14, 2019

Sad but true: The EPA has proposed to allow coal-fired plants to emit more, not less, CO2, a powerful greenhouse gas.

Creating Robust and Effective State Renewable Portfolio Standards

February 7, 2019

PSR recently hosted a webinar with three of our chapter experts discussing state renewable energy solutions for the electricity sector. Watch the webinar here.

Portland, Maine City Council Unanimously Passes “Back from the Brink” Resolution, urging the USA to reduce nuclear dangers

January 25, 2019

Thanks to the incredible work of Physicians for Social Responsibility Maine and their allies, on  January 23, the city of Portland, Maine unanimously passed a “Back from the Brink” resolution.…

The Green New Deal: Just What the Doctor Ordered

January 22, 2019

Climate scientists are now telling us that we have less than 12 years in which to cut our climate-warming emissions in half or face irreversible consequences. That stark deadline is…

Must-Read: “Climate Change—A Health Emergency”

January 16, 2019

Two physicians from PSR’s Greater Boston chapter have just published a must-read article in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine. Entitled “Climate Change—A Health Emergency,” it is a strong and cogent statement of the challenge the world faces from climate change and the responsibility of physicians (and, by extension, other health professionals) to respond.

Exciting wins against VA pipelines

December 18, 2018

Valiant activists, including some with whom PSR has collaborated for years, are celebrating two important wins against pipelines in Virginia. Virginia’s State Water Control Board voted recently to reconsider its…

PSR View of Climate Accords in Poland: “We Will Not Stop Here”

December 18, 2018

Most of the countries of the world met recently in Poland to review their progress on the Paris Climate Accords and identify next steps. PSR’s national board president, Pouné Saberi, MD, attended the conference and shares her take on the outcome.

EPA’s proposed methane rule rollback would endanger health and the climate

December 18, 2018

The U.S. EPA is proposing to roll back the rules that restrict methane and toxic gas leakage from oil and gas wells across the country. This roll-back would endanger health…

Facing nuclear reality, 35 years after “The Day After”

December 14, 2018

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) has released a new multimedia presentation on the 1983 television movie The Day After. This landmark film showed the actual consequences of a…