Make a difference in the challenge to confront global warming and prevent nuclear war and the development and use of nuclear weapons.
Tell President Obama to abolish the Nuclear Loan Guarantee Program.
Washington, District of Columbia
PSR is proud to be a co-sponsor of “50 States United for Healthy Air,” a collaborative effort that is bringing health professionals, faith leaders and community activists to Washington to speak out on the need for clean air.
PSR, acting with environmental organizations, filed a Notice of Intent to sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to require the Agency to release rules for safe disposal of coal ash, the toxic waste left when electrical utilities burn coal.
PSR chapters across the country celebrated the EPA’s recent finalization of the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards rule. This rule is a huge victory for human health, particularly for children, who can face developmental delays and mental retardation due to mercury exposure.
PSR-Los Angeles, along with NRDC and Communities for a Better Environment, are asking a federal appeals court to review an action by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that lets a local air quality agency avoid monitoring pollutants from area freeways.
Source: Long Beach ReportA letter to the editor from PSR board member Dr. Alan Lockwood.
Source: Buffalo NewsActivists from PSR and other organizations delivered more than 630,000 comments to the US Environmental Protection Agency’s regional office in Boston today to support the agency’s draft rules to significantly curb mercury pollution from coal-fired power plants.
Source: Boston Globe
Time for Real Change on Nuclear Weapons, Global Warming, and Toxic Chemical Policies
With a new administration and Congress comes the opportunity for the U.S. to take global leadership in working toward the elimination of all nuclear weapons, and for dramatic reductions in global greenhouse gases and environmental toxins.
PSR has put together a packet of briefing materials on these core issues that you can use to educate yourself, your community and your Congressional representatives.
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Thank President Obama for his courageous and health-protecting decision not to permit construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.
Protect babies and those with heart disease! Join PSR in urging the EPA to lower the accepted levels of carbon monoxide pollution.
The Environmental Protection Agency is currently receiving public comments on its proposed regulations for coal ash handling and disposal. PSR strongly supports the option called "Subtitle C," which would create uniform, federally enforcecable standards that would greatly strengthen protections for human health. Read more »
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