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Students to UI: Stop burning coal

Student PSR and other groups at the University of Iowa are urging the school to stop burning coal at the campus power plant.
(May 6, 2010)

PSR Board President Conveys Message to the White House: Protect the Clean Air Act

PSR Board President Jeff Patterson, DO, carried a strong health message to the White House today about the need for action on climate change to protect the health of all Americans. Attending the President’s Earth Day reception, Dr. Patterson stated that “The health of Americans requires that we reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the safest, most immediate way possible.”
(April 22, 2010)

PSR Supports Newly Introduced Safe Chemicals Act, Seeks Improvement before Enactment

Physicians for Social Responsibility supports the “Safe Chemicals Act of 2010,” introduced last week by Senator Lautenberg and Congressmen Waxman and Rush. The long-awaited, landmark legislation would overhaul the way the federal government protects the public from toxic chemicals.
(April 21, 2010)

Nuclear weapons: historic opportunity to ensure they will never be used again

States have an historic opportunity to bring the era of nuclear weapons to an end once and for all, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said today. Addressing diplomats in Geneva, the ICRC's president, Jakob Kellenberger, appealed to States to ensure that nuclear weapons are never used again.
(April 20, 2010)

Cracking Big Coal

The fight to stop coal brings together the health impacts with the environmental damage to create a serious environmental justice issue. See a profile of that movement in this new article from The Nation.
(April 15, 2010)

Sen. Lautenberg Introduces Chemicals Reform Bill, Saying Current Regulation 'Is Broken'

U.S. EPA would be given broad new authorities to target chemicals of concern and to regulate new and existing chemicals under legislation introduced today by Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.).
(April 15, 2010)

Obama Limits When U.S. Would Use Nuclear Arms

The New York Times interview with President Obama on the Nuclear Posture Review and how it will re-focus the United States' security policy on reducing nuclear weapons' role in the world.
(April 5, 2010)

Breakthrough Is Reported in U.S. Arms Pact With Russia

President Obama and his Russian counterpart, President Dmitri A. Medvedev, have broken through a logjam in their arms control negotiations and expect to sign a new treaty in Prague next month that would slash American and Russian nuclear arsenals, officials from both nations said Wednesday.
(March 24, 2010)

Coal's Toxic Sludge

It's deadly, it’s America's second-biggest river of industrial waste, and it’s barely regulated. Read Jeff Goodell, noted author of Big Coal, on coal ash.
(March 17, 2010)

F.D.A. Concerned About Substance in Food Packaging

In a shift of position, the Food and Drug Administration is expressing concerns about possible health risks from bisphenol-A, or BPA, a widely used component of plastic bottles and food packaging that it declared safe in 2008.
(January 15, 2010)