We must resist the strident voices calling for a new nuclear arms race

October 18, 2024 Comments Off on We must resist the strident voices calling for a new nuclear arms race

Op-ed by PSR Maine members Geoff Gratwick, MD, and Kathryn Bourgoin, MD in the Bangor Daily News.

Fracking’s potential link to health risks is drawing more scrutiny

October 15, 2024 Comments Off on Fracking’s potential link to health risks is drawing more scrutiny

Article in The Observer-Reporter quoting PSR Pennsylvania President Dr. Ned Ketyer.

Vote No on I-2117: -Preserve Climate Investments -REduce Air Pollution -Build Healthier Communities

Initiative-2117 is Dangerous to Your Health

October 14, 2024 Comments Off on Initiative-2117 is Dangerous to Your Health

Op-ed by Ken Lans, MD, Washington PSR President, in The Stranger.

Local anti-nuclear activists cheer Nihon Hidankyo’s Nobel Peace Prize

October 11, 2024 Comments Off on Local anti-nuclear activists cheer Nihon Hidankyo’s Nobel Peace Prize

WGBH article quoting PSR Past President Ira Helfand, MD.

Multnomah County adds NW Natural, Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine to climate lawsuit

October 8, 2024 Comments Off on Multnomah County adds NW Natural, Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine to climate lawsuit

Street Roots article quoting Oregon PSR volunteer Dr. Melanie Plaut on the dangers of methane gas.

Vote No on I-2117: -Preserve Climate Investments -REduce Air Pollution -Build Healthier Communities

I-2117 imposes too high a cost on our health; vote no

October 5, 2024 Comments Off on I-2117 imposes too high a cost on our health; vote no

Op-ed in The Herald by Jonathan Witte, MD, Washington PSR Member, on Washington state’s anti-climate ballot initiative.

Addressing the health threats of nuclear war as United States medical students

October 3, 2024 Comments Off on Addressing the health threats of nuclear war as United States medical students

Commentary in Medicine, Conflict and Survival by Greater Boston PSR Board Co-Chair Joseph G. Hodgkin, MD and three medical students.

Pennsylvania gas driller CNX says operations pose no health risk. Activists are skeptical.

September 30, 2024 Comments Off on Pennsylvania gas driller CNX says operations pose no health risk. Activists are skeptical.

Article in the Pennsylvania Capital-Star quoting PSR Pennsylvania President Dr. Ned Ketyer.

Statement: Governor Newsom vetoes bill to require health warning labels on gas stoves

September 28, 2024 Comments Off on Statement: Governor Newsom vetoes bill to require health warning labels on gas stoves

CalPIRG statement quoting San Francisco Bay PSR’s Dr. Robert Gould

Why Isn’t the Nuclear Threat a 2024 Campaign Issue?

September 27, 2024 Comments Off on Why Isn’t the Nuclear Threat a 2024 Campaign Issue?

Op-ed in Common Dreams by Robert Dodge, MD, PSR Board Member.

40 Civil Rights, Labor & Environmental Orgs to Trump: “It’s Time for Pruitt to Resign, or Be Removed”

April 18, 2018 Comments Off on 40 Civil Rights, Labor & Environmental Orgs to Trump: “It’s Time for Pruitt to Resign, or Be Removed”

PSR and forty other national civil rights, labor, conservation and environmental organizations have taken out a series of full page ads calling for the resignation or firing of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt.

A New Fracking Landscape: Report on Recent Science Shows Overwhelming Evidence of Harm

March 13, 2018 Comments Off on A New Fracking Landscape: Report on Recent Science Shows Overwhelming Evidence of Harm

Health professional groups raise alarm that build-out of drilling and fracking operations is creating a public health crisis. Experts available for interviews. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Elana Simon, Communications Manager,…

In Memoriam: Dr. Victor W. Sidel, PSR Founding Member

January 31, 2018 Comments Off on In Memoriam: Dr. Victor W. Sidel, PSR Founding Member

Dr. Sidel has inspired so many of us in our work for peace, social justice, and health equity. Click here to read PSR members’ tributes to Dr. Sidel. Victor W.…

American, British, and French Physicians Condemn Their Governments’ Protest of the Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony

December 5, 2017 Comments Off on American, British, and French Physicians Condemn Their Governments’ Protest of the Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony

The American, British, and French embassies in Norway announced they will refuse to send top-level diplomats to the Nobel peace prize ceremony in protest of the awardee, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). ICAN received the Nobel peace prize for raising awareness on the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons and achieving the first-ever U.N. treaty that categorically bans such weapons.

Physicians Warn Scrapping the Clean Power Plan Could Result in 10,000s of Preventable Deaths and Illnesses

October 10, 2017 Comments Off on Physicians Warn Scrapping the Clean Power Plan Could Result in 10,000s of Preventable Deaths and Illnesses

Today, the EPA announced the termination of the Clean Power Plan, the most comprehensive piece of climate change policy on the federal level. The policy created viable pathways for states to slash carbon emissions by almost one-third from electricity sectors, greatly advancing the nation’s ability to slow climate change.

International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Awarded Nobel Peace Prize

October 6, 2017 Comments Off on International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Awarded Nobel Peace Prize

Today, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their work bringing forward the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR)’s international federation, the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), founded ICAN in 2007. ICAN mobilized more than 400 NGOs across 100 countries to advocate for an international ban against nuclear weapons. The United Nations adopted the landmark treaty on July 7, 2017.

EPA Drops Illegal Effort to Delay Ozone Protections

August 3, 2017 Comments Off on EPA Drops Illegal Effort to Delay Ozone Protections

In response to legal action by public health, environmental, and community organizations, including PSR, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has dropped its proposed delay of the 2015 ozone standards.

Health and Environmental Groups Sue EPA Over Its Delay of Clean Air Protections for Millions

July 12, 2017 Comments Off on Health and Environmental Groups Sue EPA Over Its Delay of Clean Air Protections for Millions

Today, health, environmental and community groups sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to stop the agency’s delay in implementation of the 2015 smog standard.

UN Nuclear Ban Treaty Could Heal Broken U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy, Say U.S. Medical Professionals

July 7, 2017 Comments Off on UN Nuclear Ban Treaty Could Heal Broken U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy, Say U.S. Medical Professionals

Despite a misguided boycott by the U.S. and other nuclear-armed countries, today the UN adopted a treaty banning nuclear weapons worldwide.

Health Advocates Call Court’s Ruling to Regulate Methane a Win for Clean Air and a Healthy Climate

July 5, 2017 Comments Off on Health Advocates Call Court’s Ruling to Regulate Methane a Win for Clean Air and a Healthy Climate

In a win for public health and the climate, the federal appeals court in Washington blocked the Trump administration’s suspension of EPA standards that keep methane and toxic gas pollution from oil and gas wells out of the air we breathe.