transportation

Take Action: Cleaner cars save lives!

January 12, 2026

Submit your comment today and tell the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration how the health community really feels! 

Transportation: Invest in trains

November 21, 2025

Letter to the editor by Washington PSR’s Breck Lebegue, MD, MPH, and Chris Covert-Bowlds, MD, in the Seattle Times.

Maryland Transportation and Climate Alignment Act Virtual Rally

November 18, 2025

Join Chesapeake PSR at a virtual rally for the Transportation and Climate Alignment Act, which would promotoe statewide investments in affordable transportation options including public transit, walking, and biking infrastructure, as well as create greater transparency about highway expansion projects.

Major Transit and Budget Transparency Bills Stall on Last Day of Session

April 10, 2025

Sierra Club Maryland Chapter press release quoting Chesapeake PSR’s Terry Fitzgerald, MD.

Want better Cascades passenger train service?

March 18, 2025

Letter to the editor in The Suburban Times by Breck Lebegue MD MPH, Washington PSR.

Quotes from National Health and Medical Organizations in Response to EPA’s New Cleaner Cars Standards

March 20, 2024

Press release from the American Lung Association on EPA’s new rule on tailpipe emissions from new cars, with quotes from PSR Executive Director Brian Campbell, PhD and Board Member Katie Huffling, DNP, RN, CNM, FAAN.

Zero-emission vehicles: Protecting planet, improving health

November 11, 2022

Letter to the editor in the Seattle Times by Max Savishinsky, Executive Director of Washington PSR.

Advocates push for strong climate action plan

October 13, 2022

News 10 ABC article quoting Dr. Kathleen Nolan, PSR New York President.

Transportation plan can move Washington ahead

February 13, 2022

Article in The Everett Herald quoting Annmarie Dooley, MD, Washington PSR.

Health letter to EPA supporting strong clean car standards: Six public health experts join Environment America to call for clean cars

December 14, 2021

News release from Environment America quoting Lisa Doggett, MD, Texas PSR and Brita Lundberg, MD, Greater Boston PSR.