Physicians for Social Responsibility, Chesapeake Climate Action Network (CCAN), Interfaith Power & Light, the NAACP and Environment Maryland are sponsoring Maryland’s first-ever statewide conference on fracking this weekend in Baltimore.

Coal trains lose up to 3 percent of their load as they pass through cities, towns, farms, ranches and across rivers, lakes and streams. According to Oregon PSR, that can be as much as 500 pounds of coal dust for every 500 miles traveled.

PSR and other groups have spoken to the possible health impacts from burning coal.

"Communities of color and low-income communities are disproportionately impacted by toxic chemicals from many sources," says Ana Mascarenas, with Physicians for Social Responsibility - Los Angeles.

An op-ed by Dr. Robert Little, Co-President of PSR Harrisburg.

Radio interview with Dr. Alan Lockwood on Arizona AM radio with the Dr. Don Show.

An op-ed from PSR board member Dr. Ira Helfand.

Dr. Alan Lockwood describes the health and economic benefits of the Clean Air Act and how strong regulations that curtail air pollution save lives.

The destruction of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in March 2011, caused by an earthquake and subsequent tsunami, resulted in massive radioactive contamination of the Japanese mainland. In November 2011, the Japanese Science Ministry reported that long-lived radioactive cesium had contaminated 11,580 square miles (30,000 sq km) of the land surface of Japan.

Dr. Lani Graham and Dr. Daniel Oppenheim of PSR/Maine decry industry efforts to slow actions against preventing children's exposure to bisphenol-A.

A letter to the editor by Dr. Samantha Ahdoot, a Northern Virginia member of PSR.

PSR is among groups calling on Congress to reject increased spending request for nuclear weapons facility.

An op-ed on climate change from PSR Executive Director Dr. Catherine Thomasson.

An op-ed on nuclear weapons by PSR Los Angeles board member Dr. Robert Dodge.

An op-ed from PSR member Dr. Jack Westman on the need for clean air.

New reports explain further the vulnerabilities of nuclear reactors and the risk they pose to the public’s health and safety.

An op-ed co-authored by PSR senior scientist Steven Starr.

PSR is fighting climate change and promoting clean energy in Maryland. A special partnership between national PSR and the Chesapeake chapter brings a Climate and Health Organizer to the chapter to ramp up recruitment and education of health professionals for advocacy on climate change issues coming up in the state legislature.

An op-ed by PSR members Raymond F. Graap, MD, and Schuyler Hilts, MD, Cmdr. (Ret.) USNR.