Sixteen health and environmental groups including PSR filed a petition with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency outlining severe flaws in its rule to repeal the Endangerment Finding and motor vehicle climate pollution standards and describing how the Clean Air Act requires the agency to reconsider that damaging action.
Physicians for Social Responsibility, Physicians for Human Rights, and International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War renew our call for an immediate end to all fighting and a return to negotiations for the health and security of our planet.
Today, we awoke to news that the United States and Israel have launched military attacks on Iran. This is a frightening escalation to the conflict PSR has been monitoring for months, including the bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities in June.
This repeal will harm the health of every American, but vulnerable populations, including babies and children are most at risk.
Physicians for Social Responsibility will sue the Trump administration to protect health.
Authored by leading health experts, this new report from PSR shows widespread health impact of extracting, transporting and burning fossil fuels.
As physicians and health professionals, we condemn any and all nuclear weapons testing and de-stabilizing posturing. Regardless of intent, President Trump’s statement is a dangerous escalation that threatens global security and undermines decades of disarmament efforts, including the 1970 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
As an organization dedicated to protecting human life from the gravest threats to health and survival, PSR joins leading medical and health experts and public health organizations sounding the alarm about the reckless leadership of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and we call for him to resign or be removed from office immediately.
Today’s proposal to repeal the Endangerment Finding for greenhouse gases and rollback emissions standards for motor vehicles is antithetical to EPA’s mission and will seriously harm the health of Americans and people around the world if finalized.
The federal government is stealing healthcare and food assistance from tens of millions of people who need it the most, tearing apart families by targeting immigrants (regardless of status), raising energy bills in the midst of an affordability crisis, and ensuring people will die without access to lifesaving resources.
Letter to the editor in the Florida Times-Union from PSR Florida President Howard Kessler, MD.
Commentary in the Vermont Digger by PSR member John Reuwer, MD.
Coverage of PSR’s lawsuit against the EPA, from The Hill.
Article from Lakeshore Public Radio quoting PSR Environment & Health Director Barbara Gottlieb
Op-ed for CNN from Drs. Ira Helfand, Arun Mitra and Tilman Ruff, IPPNW.
Op-ed by Common Dreams by PSR Board Member Robert Dodge, MD.
Letter to the editor in the Wisconsin State Journal form Claire Gervais, MD, PSR Wisconsin.
Op-ed in the Baltimore Sun by Chesapeake PSR President Gwen DuBois, MD, MPH.
Op-ed in the Bangor Daily News by Janis Petzel, MD, PSR Climate Ambassador.
While most of us are sheltering at home from the Covid-19 virus, the oil and gas industry is pushing the EPA to roll back health-protective regulations.