Letter to the Editor by Dr. Maureen McCue, Board Chair, PSR Iowa in the Iowa City Press-Citizen.
Portland Mercury article quoting Oregon PSR’s Melanie Plaut, MD.
Op-ed in the Asheville Citizen Times by Scott Allan Baker, President of Western North Carolina PSR.
Op-ed by Bob Dodge, MD, PSR Board member, in The Hill.
Op-ed in Inkstick Media co-authored by Jasmine Owens, Associate Director, PSR Nuclear Weapons Abolition Program.
Op-ed in the Bangor Daily News by Geoff Gratwick, MD and Douglas Dransfield, MD, PSR Maine members.
Op-ed in CommonWealth Magazine co-authored by Brita Lundberg, MD, Chair of Greater Boston PSR.
Op-ed in The Journal News by PSR New York President Kathleen Nolan, MD, MSL.
Wisconsin Public Radio quoting PSR Wisconsin’s Ann Behrmann, MD.
Op-ed by Dr. Robert Gould of San Francisco Bay Area PSR in the San Francisco Chronicle on the health impacts of gas stoves.
PSR is a proud supporter of the People Over Pentagon bill, and firmly believes that a $100 billion reduction in military spending is the minimum we must cut if we are to transform our society from a war economy to a sustainable economy of community care.
We are pleased to announce that W. Taylor Carneiro-Johnson will become Interim Executive Director of Physicians for Social Responsibility in Washington, DC, on March 25, 2023.
Threats to public health created by such environmental disasters are all too common. And in most cases, we find public health and safety is compromised for the sake of corporate profit.
“Millions are breathing cleaner air because of these protections under the Clean Air Act,” said Jeff Carter, Executive Director of PSR.
PSR warned that gas stoves emit toxic air pollutants that can cause lung damage and exacerbate asthma, as well as other harms to health.
The United States should employ common sense, and discontinue all unnecessary military exercises that escalate the possibility of a nuclear conflict.
PSR stands with health professionals who have long argued that police violence and systemic racism are a public health issue.
Oil and gas companies used PFAS in Texas wells, but the extent of its use is obscured by six billion pounds of “trade secret” chemicals.
In response to Sen. Joe Manchin and Sen. Ted Cruz’s introduction of the Gas Stove Protection and Freedom Act, Barbara Gottlieb, Director for Environment & Health for PSR, issued the following statement.
PSR mourns the death of Tortuguita, and condemns state violence enacted against environmentalists in the United States and abroad.