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 cancel the Vogtle Loan Guarantee! We don’t want or need new nuclear reactors and we don’t think that taxpayers should be on the hook to support a mature industry.
The Code Black Toolkit contains:
Fact Sheet: Coal-Fired Power Plants: Understanding the Health Costs of a Dirty Energy Source (download here)
More materials will be coming soon.
How to Order the Materials:
Click here to download the mail-in order form.
How Health Professionals Can Use the "Code Black Toolkit"
to Take Action
1. Learn with us about coal’s impact on health and on the planet.
With total disregard for coal’s deadly health impact on scores of American communities -- and the entire planet -- Big Coal seeks to build more than 100 new coal-fired energy plants. Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) takes this assault on America’s health with the utmost seriousness. Code Black is PSR’s program to inform health professionals about the multiple threats that coal poses to public health, and to help health professionals strengthen local efforts to oppose and defeat the approval or licensing of new coal-fired plants.
The materials in this packet provide a solid foundation for grasping the health impacts of coal and those of global warming. More information will be posted periodically on the Code Black website -- visit it at www.psr.org/CodeBlack.
2. Take a stand to assure that our communities have safe, healthy sources of power.
The American people turn to doctors and nurses for reliable information on issues of health and safety. Use that trust and respect to provide positive leadership by insisting that energy sources be safe and healthy.
3. Mobilize the medical community to prevent global warming and health risks caused by coal.
As you lead, bring other health professionals along with you. Educate your fellow health professionals where you live and work about the deadly threats that coal-fired plants pose to health. Work with your local affiliates of health professional associations (AMA, ANA, APHA, etc.) to pass resolutions opposing the construction and licensing of new coal-fired plants.
For support, resources and draft resolutions, contact Barbara Gottlieb, Environment & Health Program Manager, at bgottlieb@psr.org.
Together, we can stop coal’s assault on America’s health. Because power shouldn’t be poisonous.
Toxic coal ash poisons drinking water and wafts on the air. We need protection. Call your representative today!
Climate Chaos: How Coal Accelerates Climate Change
The United States generates almost half its electricity by burning coal -- an outdated, toxic technology that spews pollutants into the air. Coal's carbon dioxide pollution is a major contributing factor to climate change. Coal also emits a host of toxic "conventional pollutants" -- mercury, nitrous oxides, sulfur dioxide, particulate matter and others -- that inflict severe damage on the body's major organ systems. Read more »
The Silent Epidemic: Coal and the Hidden Threat to Health
In The Silent Epidemic, Alan Lockwood, a physician, describes and documents the impacts of the coal fuel cycle on human health. Lockwood’s comprehensive treatment examines every aspect of coal, from its complex chemical makeup to details of mining, transporting, burning, and disposal—each of which generates significant health concerns. Read more »
Coal Ash: The Toxic Threat to Our Health and Environment
Coal ash, one of the dirtiest secrets in American energy production, burst into the U.S. consciousness three days before Christmas, 2008 when an earthen wall holding back a huge coal ash disposal pond failed at the coal-fired power plant in Kingston, Tennessee. Read more »
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