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. We are engaged in educating the public, decision-makers and health professionals on the effects of pesticides and advocate for the reduction of these poisons at their source. We are working to create healthy schools to protect our children’s health through outreach and education and effective legislation. We call for the reduction and eventual elimination of dioxin, persistent organic pollutants (POPS) and other toxins from our environment and advocate a drastic reduction of medical waste incineration.

In 1998, PSR was co-author of a groundbreaking 180-page report, “Generations at Risk: How Environmental Toxicants May Affect Reproductive Health in California.” The report brings together, for the first time, information about the reproductive health effects of pesticides, solvents, toxic metals, and endocrine-disrupting chemicals used in California.