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.
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.
Let's flood the U.S. Senate with phone calls, telling our elected officials just how dangerous coal ash is, and asking them to oppose Senate bill 1751.
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 »
Coal's Assault on Human Health
Coal combustion releases mercury, particulate matter, nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, and dozens of other substances known to be hazardous to human health. The report also considers coal's contribution to global warming, and the health implications of global warming. Read more »
Toxic Power: How Power Plants Contaminate Our Air and States
The electric sector is the largest source of industrial emissions of toxic air pollution in the United States, accounting for nearly 50 percent of all reported toxic pollution from industrial sources in 2009. This analysis exposes the leading role power plants play as toxic polluters and for the "Toxic 20" states with the most toxic pollution from power plants. Read more »
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