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What is unique about the health professional advocate?
PSR’s mission is to protect human life from the gravest threats to health and survival. The principles of public health prevention expressed in this mission get implemented through education and advocacy -- the act of speaking out for a cause. Read more »
What are we learning about the relationship between environmental toxicants and cancer?
Cancer is a devastating, costly, and widespread disease. How should our regulatory system respond to this information? From PSR's Environmental Health Policy Institute. 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 »
PSR Reports Spring 2011
Inside this issue: 50 years of physician anti-nuclear advocacy; pressing for better toxics policy; next steps for the Clean Air Act; and more. Read more »
Walter Tsou, MD MPH, PSR Philadelphia Board President; Kate Etherington, PSR Philadelphia Executive Director; and Kristen Welker-Hood, ScD MSN, former PSR Environment and Health Director, testified at an EPA public hearing on proposed mercury and air toxics standards in Philadelphia on May 24, 2011. Read more »
What is the most important achievement we've gained through air pollution management? What remains to be done to safeguard public health from air pollution?
Air pollution is one of the most important environmental health threats of our time, contributing to four of the five leading causes of mortality in the United States: heart disease, cancer, stroke, and chronic lower respiratory diseases. Air pollution such as particulate matter, nitrous oxides, sulfur dioxide, ozone, heavy metals, and other air toxics damage our airways, lungs, heart, and circulatory systems. Read more »
Cancer and the Environment
It is now believed that at least 60% of cancer deaths could be prevent through modification of personal behaviors, such as smoking cessation, dietary changes, and reducing sun exposure. Another significant cause of cancer is exposure to carcinogens in the environment--exposures that could be prevent by society, but over which the individual often has little control. Read more »
Children at Risk: How Air Pollution from Power Plants Threatens the Health of America's Children
Millions of children in America today are exposed to unhealthy air at home, at school, or at their playground. Scores of new studies each year demonstrate that children are more susceptible to air pollution than adults. April 2002. Read more »
An op-ed by Sarah Lovinger, MA MD, Executive Director of Chicago PSR, on the health threat of toxic chemicals in Illinois and across the nation. March 30, 2011. Read more »
EPA’s Blind Spot: Hexavalent Chromium in Coal Ash
Newly released report on a new carcinogen identified in coal ash: hexavalent chromium. By PSR with Earthjustice and Environmental Integrity Project. Read more »
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