In the wake of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, communities in Texas, Florida, the Gulf and the Caribbean are addressing the long, hard and dirty job of recovery. Read more »
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Kathy Attar, Toxics Program Manager at Physicians for Social Responsibility, testified recently before the Consumer Product Safety Commission, urging them to ban harmful organohalogen flame retardants in children’s products, furniture, mattresses and electronic casings. Read more »

As transportation now emits more greenhouse gases than any other sector of our economy, a slower transition to cleaner cars will have significant consequences for U.S. carbon emissions. Read more »
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Hurricane Harvey is a terrifying storm, unleashing torrential rain, causing massive flooding, and creating a slowly mounting death toll. Houston, the fourth-largest city in the United States, has been inundated. Read more »

Clean water is a public health issue for all communities. The Clean Water Rule, finalized in 2015, helps protect the water for the third of people in the U.S. whose drinking water comes from upstream sources such as streams and wetlands, which are not protected under the Clean Water Act (CWA). Read more »

Edgy about conflict with North Korea? An on-again, off-again war of words and provocations between President Trump and Chairman Kim Jong-un has injected the specter of nuclear war into popular American culture. Read more »

As the North Korean nuclear flashpoint dominates our headlines, the 72nd anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki reminds us why we must prevent nuclear war. Read more »

This year, PSR members commemorated the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki against the backdrop of a very real risk of nuclear war with North Korea. Read more »
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72 years after the horrific bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, nuclear weapons are now illegal. 122 nations voted to adopt the nuclear weapons ban treaty. Read more »
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The assault on our environment and health by the current EPA continues. EPA is planning to delay limits adopted in 2015 on the toxic pollution that power plants can discharge into waterways. Read more »

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

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 »

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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