Twenty states asked Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts to stay the Mercury and Air Toxics rule, whose goal is to cut toxic mercury emissions from power plants. Read more »

Seventeen states signed onto a "Governors' Accord for a New Energy Future" that makes an economic case for expanding renewable energy and energy efficiency. Read more »

According to the sixth annual report from the Solar Foundation, California and Massachusetts have 50 percent of all the solar jobs in U.S. The high number of solar jobs in these states shows that their renewable energy policies are working. Read more »

On February 8, PSR's Dr. Ira Helfand addressed students, faculty members and the public at Cornell University and SUNY-Cortland last week on this topic: "The Growing Danger of Nuclear War and What We Can Do About It." Read more »
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PSR is calling on the nation’s governors to move forward with the Clean Power Plan despite the Supreme Court stay on its implementation. Read more »

After sending out our action alert for the Clean Energy Saves Lives campaign, urging our members to help make climate change an issue in the primaries, we received encouraging news from Jim Newell, one of our members. Read more »
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PSR’s writing and advocacy on coal ash brought us before the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, where Environment & Health Director Barbara Gottlieb and PSR member Yolanda Whyte, MD of Georgia were asked to provide testimony. Read more »
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Climate change is an important topic, so why does it seem to be taking a back seat in the presidential primaries and debates? Read more »

The State of California, having recognized the threats to climate from greenhouse gas emissions, has called for insurance companies to voluntarily divest from all thermal coal investments. Read more »

2015 was the hottest year on record, surpassing 2014 by 0.16 C (0.29 F), according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and NASA. Read more »

Climate change is finally being recognized in the presidential primaries as a real and imminent threat. In a recent Iowa debate, climate change was one of several issues brought up as the Democratic hopefuls were asked questions straight from audience members. Read more »

Will the EPA’s proposed regulations protect us from disasters like the massive methane leak from Aliso Canyon? Read more »

On January 6, over 30 seismic monitoring stations associated with the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty picked up tremors emanating from North Korea that indicated a potential atom bomb blast. Read more »
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Right before the holidays, the U.S. Senate passed legislation seeking to reform the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) of 1976. The House passed a different version of reform in June 2015. Unfortunately, both have major flaws that could prevent the public health community from supporting any final legislation. Read more »

Nuclear weapons are headed for the dustbin of history. But the nuclear weapons industry in the U.S. didn’t get the memo! Indeed, the weapons complex delivered a whopper wish list to Santa and has hung up its stocking over the fireplace. Read more »
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COP21, the international climate conference in Paris, is ended; the tens of thousands of participants from around the globe have gone home. Now that the accord has been finalized, what have we gained? Read more »

Physicians for Social Responsibility and our representatives at the events join the global outpouring of support for the international agreement but sound a bell of warning. Read more »

PSR staff hand-delivered to EPA staff the comments of over 2,000 PSR members, expressing support for proposed rules to stem the leakage of methane and toxic volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from oil and gas wells. Read more »
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PSR has joined a broad campaign calling on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the world’s largest private foundation, to divest its holdings in fossil fuels. Read more »
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Gigantism in plants can result from the high level of carbon dioxide Read more »