Over 90% of people in the U.S. have the harmful chemical bisphenol-A (BPA) in their bodies. What strategies can clinicians recommend to help reduce exposures to this toxic chemical? Read more »

The emotional electricity in the room was palpable. Everyone could feel that history was being made in Conference Room 1 at the United Nations headquarters in New York. Read more »

We have an opportunity to make important headway in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and improving public health in the Northeast states. This can be done by requiring a 5% annual reduction in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) cap for the years 2021 to 2030. Read more »

Yesterday was my second day attending the United Nations New York convention for a treaty banning nuclear weapons. Read more »

The American Medical Association House of Delegates at its annual meeting recently took the landmark decision to ask the Board of Governors to consider important climate change policies. Read more »

The nuclear weapons ban treaty is closer to reality! United Nations officials have drafted the treaty, and negotiations reconvened at the UN for the last session, from June 15 to July 7. Read more »
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On May 22, Committee Chairwoman Elayne Whyte Gómez from Costa Rica released a draft of the nuclear ban treaty. The draft treaty comprehensively prohibits nuclear weapons on the basis of their humanitarian impact. Read more »
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The campaign for a nuclear weapons ban treaty has brought democracy to disarmament. In the words of ICAN campaigner Ray Acheson, "we need to amplify what's going on inside the U.N. to outside." Read more »

Our newly reformed environmental chemicals policy, the Lautenberg Act, is caught in the middle of an assault on the EPA. Read more »

We just scored a major win: The U.S. Senate beat back, 51-49, an effort to eliminate the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Methane Waste Rule. Read more »
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The persistent tensions on the Korean peninsula are rapidly escalating into a crisis fueled by mutual fears, provocations, and the volatile temperaments of two unpredictable, nuclear-armed heads of state. Read more »
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To bring the global disarmament message to the heart of the American political landscape, PSR co-sponsored an all-day conference April 27 titled, "Toward a Fundamental Change in Nuclear Weapons Policy" at the Capitol Visitor Center. Read more »

Take a chemical weapon attack in Syria, a cruise-missile strike, military exercises in South Korea, ballistic missile tests and an aircraft carrier battle group moving into striking position. Mix in threats and counter-threats from American, Russian and North Korean leaders, all of whom are nuclear-armed and consider themselves to be "larger than life." Read more »
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A Reuters article published today revealed that 13 of the 15 biggest U.S. oil and gas companies reported to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that compliance with current environmental regulation has "little impact on their business." Read more »

At long last, negotiations begin this month for a nuclear weapons ban treaty. This treaty will finally confer on nuclear weapons the same legal status as chemical and biological weapons: illegal under international law. Read more »
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How's the weather? Oops, don't ask! Funny how talking about the weather used to be the epitome of polite, noncontroversial conversation. Read more »
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Civic involvement has surged in 2017, and PSR welcomes this as well as the upsurge in concern about who controls the "nuclear codes." Read more »
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Early this week President Trump ordered the U.S. army to expedite the North Dakota Access Pipeline and they did. The Army granted the final permit for the oil pipeline—despite strong objection from Native American Tribes, and public health and environmental groups including PSR. Read more »
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Wait a minute, who wrote this editorial in the Dallas Morning News? It says—no, really, it says this: "Scott Pruitt is a poor choice for chief of the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Senate—and especially its two Texas senators—should vote against his nomination…" Read more »

Rep. Gaetz of Florida has introduced a bill in Congress to "terminate" the Environmental Protection Agency. How good an idea is that? Read more »