Testifying before the Environmental Protection Agency, PSR executive director Dr. Peter Wilk called global warming one of the “gravest threats to health and survival” facing the world. Read more »

Many of you have been fighting to prevent the construction of dirty new coal plants. Now we have a chance to fight against coal pollution on a massive scale, not just one plant at a time. Read more »

PSR recently joined environmental and Native American groups in raising a legal challenge to a proposed coal-fired power plant slated for construction on a Navajo reservation in northwest New Mexico. Read more »

Iowa PSR, in partnership with sister organizations and the help of dedicated activists across the state, has prevented the construction of a potentially very dirty, unhealthy, 650-MW coal-fired power plant in the town of Marshalltown. Read more »

President Obama signed the Fiscal Year 2009 Omnibus Appropriations Act, H.R. 1105, which continues the policy shift away from the build up of nuclear weapons and toward efforts to stabilize U.S. relations throughout the world. Read more »

Good news is popping on the clean energy front, although the battle is far from won. Read more »

Working with environmental allies in the “SC Says NO Coalition,” PSR is using the media to educate South Carolinians about the deadly pollutants and global warming gases of a proposed coal-fired power plant. Read more »

PSR’s Code Black campaign kicked off 2009 by presenting the medical case against the eight, count ’em eight coal plants proposed for construction in Michigan. Read more »

To what extent is human health is harmed by air pollution? While air pollution adversely affects the entire U.S. population, certain populations — children, the elderly, and people suffering from chronic illness — are particularly vulnerable. Read more »
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Have you seen the coal industry’s advertising blitz about “clean coal”? Our colleagues in the environmental movement have responded with a media campaign of their own. Read more »

All around the country, PSR activists are building informed opposition to coal plants. In Iowa, Maureen McCue, Coordinator of Iowa PSR, has forged an exciting new front by educating county boards of health. Read more »

PSR contributed to two big victories that help block new coal plants and cut global warming emissions. Read more »

As the nation embraces President-elect Barack Obama, Physicians for Social Responsibility welcomes the hope he brings for a new energy future. Read more »

As health professionals and people concerned about the health and safety of our planet, we want the new president to prioritize a clean environment and significant reductions in global warming gases. Read more »

Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) recognizes global warming as one of the most serious public health emergencies of our time. It threatens the health, even the survival, of human beings around the world. Read more »