DEQ detected elevated levels of arsenic and cadmium near Bullseye Glass Company and is concerned about cadmium levels near Uroboros Glass, both in Portland.

Here's this month's top 13 news articles and opinion pieces to keep you informed about what's happening in the nuclear disarmament movement.

An op-ed on the dangers of fracking from PSR Florida Board Member Jeannette Fleischer, ARNP.

Today the American Lung Association, American Public Health Association, Physicians for Social Responsibility and twenty-eight other health organizations signed an open letter to the nation’s governors, urging them to continue developing their implementation plans for the Clean Power Plan.

An op-ed from Greater Boston PSR member Richard Clapp.

A letter to the editor from PSR member Dr. Ray Bellamy.

An op-ed by Western North Carolina PSR member Brita Larsen Clark.

An interview with PSR President Dr. Lynn Ringenberg on a Florida bill that would open the state to more fracking.

Florida PSR joined partner groups and activists rallying in Tallahassee, FL and Brandon, FL against a proposed pro-fracking bill in the state senate.

The executive board of the region's only nuclear power plant agreed Wednesday to hire an independent investigator to look into whistleblower allegations that the plant's performance has steadily declined and that it ranks among the worst in the country.

Did U.S. EPA dismiss findings from its own scientific advisers that it should have gone further in lowering the ambient air quality standard for ozone? PSR and partner groups are challenging the standard in a new lawsuit. (Subscription required)

Dr. Herbert L. Abrams, a radiologist at Stanford and Harvard Universities and a founder of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985 for its work in publicizing the health consequences of atomic warfare, died on Jan. 20 at his home in Palo Alto, Calif. He was 95.

In 1979, Dr. Herb Abrams, then the chairman of the radiology department at Harvard Medical School, was among a small group of Harvard physicians who began discussing the urgent need for a Soviet-American dialogue on the threat of nuclear war.

An op-ed from PSR President Dr. Lynn Ringenberg.

A letter to the editor from PSR President Dr. Lynn Ringenberg.

PSR's Dr. Ira Helfand on the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' Doomsday Clock announcement.

Oregon PSR's Healthy Climate Program Director discusses our work with XRAY FM's Carl Wolfson.

Physicians for Social Responsibility applauds the Bureau of Land Management for undertaking the proposed methane waste rule released today.

Physicians for Social Responsibility applauds the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) proposed new rules to minimize natural gas waste and emissions on federal and tribal lands.

County Commissioners stand with the cities of Portland and Vancouver and over 100,000 residents in opposition to the proposed Tesoro Savage oil terminal on the Columbia River