In the run-up to the June 12 summit with North Korea, a group of prominent physicians urged Congressional leaders to promote diplomacy and prevent a war that could result in massive casualties.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Despite a misguided boycott by the U.S. and other nuclear-armed countries, today the UN adopted a treaty banning nuclear weapons worldwide.
Op-ed by Robert Dodge, MD, PSR-Los Angeles Co-President in Common Dreams.
Op-ed in Washington State Standard by Esther K. Chung, MD, Washington PSR member.
Article in Healio quoting PSR President Mark Vossler, MD.
Inside Climate News article quoting PSR President Mark Vossler, MD.
Letter to the editor in The Suburban Times by Breck Lebegue MD MPH, Washington PSR.
Study published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health co-authored by Todd L. Sack, PSR Board Member, on communicating climate change health impacts to patients.
Op-ed in Common Dreams by PSR Los Angeles Co-President Robert Dodge, MD.
KDVR article quoting PSR Colorado’s Dr. Deborah Segaloff.
Article in Delaware County Daily Times quoting PSR Pennsylvania’s Dr. Walter Tsou.
Article in High Country News quoting Theodora Tsongas, Oregon PSR volunteer.