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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.
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.
Inside Climate News article quoting PSR-Los Angeles’ Emma Silber.
Op-ed by Steve Overman, MD MPH and Sean Arent, Washington PSR, in the Seattle Times.
Op-ed by Bridget Lee, MD, Greater Boston PSR Board Member, in ACEP Now.
Los Angeles Times article quoting PSR-Los Angeles’ Ivana Castellanos.
Press release from Last Chance Alliance quoting San Francisco Bay PSR’s Dr. Robert M. Gould.
Article in Inside Climate News quoting PSR-Los Angeles Executive Director Martha Argüello.
Letter to the editor by Washington PSR’s Breck Lebegue, MD, MPH, and Chris Covert-Bowlds, MD, in the Seattle Times.
Letter to the editor by Dr. Doug Dransfield, PSR Maine, in the Sun Journal.
WORT FM radio interview with PSR Wisconsin’s Drs. Paul Sondel and Ann Behrmann on how climate change and other environmental harms are leading to a decline in species around the world.
PSR Board Member Ann Suellentrop, MSRN, reports on the 911 March for Health and Science, an event co-sponsored by PSR.