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PSR introduces its new Environmental Health Policy Institute, an online forum of medical and public health experts. Bringing together expert voices each month to comment on emerging issues in environmental health will bolster the public health movement to address environmental degradation. Delve into this virtual think tank to learn what public health experts think about the most critical environmental issues of our time -- and to build your advocacy skills. This month, read how Laura Anderko, Devra Davis, Steven G. Gilbert, Maye Thompson, and Kristen Welker-Hood respond to the question: What is the key obstacle to implementing an effective, health-protective chemicals management system?
After months of investigation, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has rejected the claims of 10 petitions that questioned the EPA's 2009 determination that greenhouse gases are a threat to human health. These petitions were yet another attempt to prevent the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions by the Clean Air Act.
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After over 2 months and 20 Senate hearings, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has scheduled the vote on the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) for mid-September.
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Coal ash, the residue left over after coal is burned, contains some of the world’s deadliest toxics: arsenic, lead, mercury, cadmium, selenium and others. Despite its toxicity, disposal of coal ash is not regulated by the federal government. Instead, the states apply a patchwork of rules, some of them inadequate to protect human health and the environment.
PSR urges its members to submit comments to the Environmental Protection Agency, insisting on strict federal regulation of coal ash disposal sites that now leak deadly toxics into surface water and drinking water.
Read more »The nuclear weapons danger is real and growing: nuclear terrorism, proliferation, and thousands of weapons still on hair-trigger alert in the United States and Russia. Fortunately, there also are new opportunities to eliminate this threat.
Read More »Toxics and global warming create pervasive threats to health. PSR responds via chemical policy reform, climate policy advocacy, practitioner education, and “Code Black,” a campaign to reduce pollution and global warming.
Read More »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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PSR Leaders Travel to IPPNW World Congress
Many key PSR leaders have made the trip to Basel, Switzerland to join our colleagues in the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War’s World Congress. We are receiving updates from our representatives and posting them in our blog. To keep up with the proceedings, please visit http://www.psr.org/nuclear-weapons/blog/. To stay updated when new posts come online, please subscribe here.
As survivors buried the dead in the wake of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, so has time begun to bury their memories. But a small group in Madison persists in its effort to pay homage to the victims and keep alive what they believe is at the core of history’s lesson: peace.
Source: Isthmus Daily PageHiroshima no minasama konichiwa. Ohayo gozaimasu. We are here, on hallowed ground, to see, to feel, to absorb and reflect. I am honored to be the first UN Secretary-General to take part in this Peace Memorial Ceremony on the 65th anniversary of this tragic day. And I am deeply moved.
Oregon City, Oregon
Balanced Menus: A Recipe for Serving Healthy Sustainable Meals, Mitigating Climate Change and Reducing Cost
Washington, District of Columbia
Industry and government organizations in the healthcare sector are increasingly addressing the impacts of climate change and energy on operations. The sector is amongst the more intensive users of energy and natural resources in support of its operations. As energy costs rise and availability of natural resources declines, the healthcare community will face significant challenges and opportunities related to procurement, facilities management and design.
Towards Nuclear Abolition
The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) wrote an excellent report after the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty Review Conference ended in May. It details the growing support from governments at the NPT-Review Conference for a Nuclear Weapons Convention. Read more »
Zero Is the Only Option
In March 2010, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and PSR docs Vic Sidel and Ira Helfand published a major new briefing paper on the global climate and health effects of nuclear war. Zero is the only option was produced for the 2010 Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference. Read more »
Coal's Assault on Human Health
PSR has released a groundbreaking medical report that takes a new look at the devastating impacts of coal on the human body. Coal combustion releases mercury, particulate matter, nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, and dozens of other substances known to be hazardous to human health. The report also considers coal's contribution to global warming, and the health implications of global warming. Read more »
Physicians for Social Responsibility is the medical and public health voice working
to prevent the use or spread
of nuclear weapons and to
slow, stop and reverse
global warming and the
toxic degradation of the
environment.
Cindy Parker, MD, MPH;
PSR Board Member
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