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  • PSR Los Angeles

    PSR-LA is a physician and health advocate membership organization working towards system and policy changes to protect public health from nuclear threats and environmental degradation. Representing over 4,000 physicians, health professionals, and concerned residents in Southern California, we inform the medical community and policymakers about toxic threats, teach them about safer practices, build coalitions with state-wide and national organizations, and strengthen local community organizations to engage in meaningful public health and environmental advocacy.

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  • Code Black: Health Professionals Fighting Coal

    Code Black

    Coal's Assault on America's 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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Focus Areas

  • Global Security

    PSR-LA promotes diplomatic solutions to international conflicts to ensure that policy makers and the public have accurate and timely information about the public health consquences of national security decisions.

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  • Environmental Health

    PSR-LA is connecting health professionals to environmental, environmental justice and public health organizations to advocate for policy change on a local, regional and state-wide level.

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  • Military Toxins

    Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles believes that the military's historic mission— that of protecting Americans from harm— clearly extends to protecting Americans from the military's own environmental mess.

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Latest News & Events

  • Beyond a nonproliferation treaty
    June 19, 2010

    Dr. Robert Dodge of PSR Los Angeles discusses his role as a delegate representing PSR at the recent Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference.

    Source: Ventura County Star
  • Farm Worker Health Act Passed by Calif. State Assembly
    June 3, 2010

    The measure, cosponsored by PSR Los Angeles, will reduce pesticide poisoning in California by streamlining the tracking of pesticide usage and worker pesticide exposure by state officials.

    Source: California Newswire
  • Can We Live With the Bomb?
    June 1, 2010

    Dr. Lawrence S. Wittner writes on the reasons not to abandon the effort to rid the world of nuclear weapons.

    Source: History News Network

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Resources

  • Pediatric Environmental Health Toolkit 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 »

Contact

Martha Arguello
617 South Olive Street, Suite 810
Los Angeles, California 90014-1629
(213) 689-9170