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Please enjoy our year end slideshow highlighting some of PSR’s work to effect change. We hope you see some reflection of yourself in all these images. You were there with us in spirit.
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PSR is excited to announce the launch of our Climate Health Action Teams! Our CHATs will be leading the Powering Climate Health campaign by advocating for the health benefits of a clean, healthy energy system based on renewable energy and energy efficiency. Please join us to push your state to a clean energy future.
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Nobel Peace Laureates--including IPPNW representative Ira Helfand, MD (on the monitor) and the Dalai Lama (in red)--met in Rome December 12-14 for their annual Summit. In the Summit's Final Statement, the laureates issued a powerful challenge to all the nations of the world "to commence negotiations on a treaty to ban nuclear weapons at the earliest possible time, and subsequently to conclude the negotiations within two years."
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PSR's Executive Director Catherine Thomasson and IPPNW's Co-President Ira Helfand "worked the aisles" and witnessed the exciting and historic outcome of the Vienna Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons. One hundred fifty-eight nations--82% of the world--attended. Of them, 44 nations stand strongly for a nuclear weapons ban treaty, and Austria issued a formal pledge to continue pushing forward and to cooperate with all stakeholders to achieve this goal.
Read more »Join our campaign! 124 nations favor banning nuclear weapons based on their humanitarian impact. If you agree, click here.
PSR's Climate Health Action Teams will be leading the Powering Climate Health campaign by advocating for the health benefits of a clean, healthy energy system based on renewable energy and energy efficiency. Please join us to push your state to a clean energy future.
The Safe Energy program focuses on protecting public health, taxpayer dollars, and national security by preventing the construction of expensive, dirty, and dangerous new nuclear reactors.
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Source: Chesapeake PSR"The purpose of a city, the primary purpose of a city, is to ensure that its residents are safe," says Angela Johnson Meszaros, a lawyer with Physicians for Social Responsibility, who is working with the drill site's neighborhood groups.
Source: KPCCA letter to the editor from PSR Arizona's Dr. Barbara Warren on how energy efficiency helps public health and saves money.
Source: Arizona Daily Star
It's time to ban nuclear weapons.Four months ago, I was traveling across the Kazakh steppe by plane, train and bike with fellow students and young physicians from around the world. Two weeks ago, I was watching a 1987 documentary with fellow Washingtonians at our local Busboys and Poets, a community center for social transformation and delicious eats. Read more »
Healthy Fish, Healthy Families
How you can enjoy the benefits of seafood, while making smart choices to lower the risks of pollution. Read more »
Ash in Lungs
PSR and Earthjustice's new report explores the health impacts of breathing coal ash dust. Read more »
Childhood Cancer and the Environment
Learn the ways children are exposed to harmful environmental chemicals which may cause cancer -- and the need to focus our policies, healthcare and research on prevention -- in the latest Environmental Health Policy Institute. Read more »
Video: Health Impacts Reported by Families Residing near Hydro Fracking Operations
Third in PSR's series of Fracking webinars, featuring speaker Poune Saberi, MD, MPH. Read more »
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