Coal's Assult on American Health - Coal-fired power plants are the leading global warming culprit in the U.S., accounting for more than 30 percent of our nation's carbon dioxide emissions. They also are one of the nation's largest sources of air pollutants that damage cardiovascular and respiratory health.
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Guided by the values and expertise of medicine and public health, Physicians for Social Responsibility works to protect human life from the gravest threats to health and survival. PSR is the US affiliate of International Physicians for the Prevention of War, recipient of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize.
Anti-Nuclear Work
Physicians for Social Responsibility was founded in 1961 to educate the public about the dangers of nuclear weapons and nuclear war. In an era when schoolchildren were still trained to "survive" a nuclear attack in Duck and Cover exercises, the need for PSR was clear.
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Gun Violence
Every two years, more Americans die from firearm injuries than during the entire Vietnam War. Gunshot wounds cost the nation $2.3 billion a year in medical treatment, and almost half that sum is paid for with taxpayers' dollars.
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Environmental Work
PSR has joined environmental and social justice organizations in Illinois and across the country to call attention to the threat to public health from global warming to the proliferation of pollutants in our air, land and water.
More on Environmental Work »Nuclear weapons proliferation and nuclear terrorism pose a grave threat to the United States and the world. At the Moscow Summit today Russian President Medvedev and President Barack Obama committed to a follow-on agreement to the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty I (START) to be concluded by December, 2009. This new treaty will reduce U.S and Russian nuclear warheads and delivery vehicles, and will require verification of these reductions.
PSR recognizes the historic significance of House passage on June 26, 2009, of the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES). For the first time, a branch of Congress has taken responsibility for acting to comprehensively reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
G8 countries have agreed in principle to incorporate a phrase calling for efforts toward the early enactment of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) in a joint statement at a G8 summit in July in Italy, senior government officials said.
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President Obama states that he will “work with Russia to take U.S. and Russian ballistic missiles off hair trigger alert.” Call on President Obama to make good on this pledge.
For several years PSR has warned against the consequences of an encounter, or more dangerously a war, with Iran. We support efforts to prevent such an incident because of the potential grave consequences.
Pediatric Environmental Health Toolkit
The Toolkit is a combination of easy-to-use reference guides for health providers and user-friendly health education materials on preventing exposures to toxic chemicals and other substances that affect infant and child health. Read more »
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