The prenatal period is a time of rapid development. It is also a time of particular vulnerability to toxic chemicals. In this month's Environmental Health Policy Institute, experts address how and why the developing fetus is vulnerable to toxic exposures – and how our regulatory system can more effectively guard against related health impacts.
Time and history have come together this year to create an opportunity to change how the world perceives nuclear weapons and their utility. At this critical moment, we are asking you to join a nationwide effort to press the Obama administration to dramatically reduce our reliance on nuclear weapons and move us closer to a nuclear weapons free world.
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As the nuclear industry renews its effort to persuade legislators, taxpayers and ratepayers to prop up its uneconomic industry, PSR Iowa is leading a grassroots campaign against an advanced cost recovery bill, a measure which would enable utilities to collect the capital expense for a new nuclear reactor in advance from their customers. A number of environmental, consumer protection and agricultural groups have found common ground in seeking to defeat the bill.
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PSR indicated its intention to sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to force it to release rules for the disposal of coal ash. Coal ash, the waste material left after electrical utilities burn coal, is heavily laden with toxic heavy metals, which have leaked, spilled and leached into ground and surface waters in communities around the country. Coal ash toxics can cause cancer as well as damage to the brain, peripheral nervous system, lungs, heart, kidneys and liver. The EPA has 60 days to come to a settlement before the issue proceeds to court.
Read more »The nuclear weapons danger is real and growing: nuclear terrorism, proliferation, and thousands of weapons still on hair-trigger alert in the United States and Russia. Fortunately, there also are new opportunities to eliminate this threat.
Read More »Toxics and global warming create pervasive threats to health. PSR responds via chemical policy reform, climate policy advocacy, practitioner education, and “Code Black,” a campaign to reduce pollution and global warming.
Read More »The Safe Energy program focuses on protecting public health, taxpayer dollars, and national security by preventing the construction of expensive, dirty, and dangerous new nuclear reactors.
Read More »While there has been limited research in Australia on the health effects of coal mining, extensive studies in the US by the Physicians for Social Responsibility found people living in high coal-producing counties had higher rates of cardiopulmonary disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, hypertension and kidney disease compared with people in non-coal-producing counties.
Source: The AustralianPhysicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) joined environmental groups in announcing their intent to sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in federal court to force the release of long-awaited federal safeguards for toxic coal ash.
Dr. Robert Little, co-chair of Harrisburg Physicians for Social Responsibility, explains the health impacts of particulate matter from car exhaust.
Source: The Carlisle Sentinel
Preserving Life on Planet EarthIn their article, “Perceptions of Climate Change: The New Climate Dice,” Hansen and his coauthors ask an important question: If we want to identify changes in the world’s climate, what do we compare current temperatures against? Read more »
Sustancias quimicas peligrosas en el sector de la salud
The Spanish-language version of the PSR report, "Hazardous Chemicals In Health Care," written with the American Nurses Association and Health Care Without Harm (HCWH), details the first investigation of environmental chemicals found in the bodies of health care professionals. Read more »
Public Health and the Safe Chemicals Act
Healthcare professionals and public health advocates across the country are speaking out about the harmful role that toxic chemicals play in our lives, and the need for a robust regulatory strategy to address them. Read more »
Special Message from Dr. Peter Wilk and Physicians for Social Responsibility: "Because of you..."
So many of you have supported us all year long in so many ways, we made this video for you. 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 »
Physicians for Social Responsibility is the medical and public health voice working to
prevent the use or spread
of nuclear weapons
and to slow, stop
and reverse global
warming and the toxic
degradation of the
environment.
Jeff Patterson, DO
PSR Board member
The 4th Annual NW Environmental Health Conference in Portland, Oregon
Scientists, researchers, and health professionals focus on the interrelationship between the environment and health and healthcare practices. Co-hosted by Oregon PSR. Learn more »
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