Make a difference in the challenge to confront global warming and prevent nuclear war and the development and use of nuclear weapons.
Promote clean renewable energy, prevent massive nuclear and coal subsidies, and reduce the threat of nuclear war! Join PSR for a Day of Action in Washington D.C, April 29, 2010.
Promote clean renewable energy, prevent massive nuclear and coal subsidies, and reduce the threat of nuclear war! Join PSR for a Day of Action in Washington D.C, April 29, 2010.
Today, PSR is joining with dozens of organizations, representing millions of Americans, calling on the U.S. Senate to pass clean energy and climate legislation. Please tell your Senators that we can no longer delay action if we are to protect our health and the health of future generations from catastrophic climate change.
Contact your federal legislators and urge them to oppose increasing nuclear loan guarantees.
The Clean Air Act, our only regulatory tool to cut carbon emissions and prevent catastrophic climate change, is under attack. To protect our nation's health, we need your help!
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Please contact Energy Secretary Stephen Chu and the managers of the Title XVII Loan Guarantee program to tell them that issuing conditional loan guarantees would risk billions of taxpayer funds on unlicensed and uneconomical new reactors.
The Clean Air Act over the past 40 years has provided effective means of limiting dangerous air pollutants and has saved countless lives. Now, the Clean Air Act and with it the EPA Endangerment Finding are under attack. To protect our nation's health and the world we need your help!
Please take a few minutes today to ask the people in your networks to join PSR in our work to eliminate nuclear weapons, to reverse global warming and the toxic degradation of the environment, and to promote safe energy.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to use the Clean Air Act to require the heaviest polluters to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide. The polluters that would be affected are new (or modified) huge factories and coal-fired power plants. Requiring them to control their own pollution is fair and highly beneficial to health: It will help protect us from the worst consequences of global warming, while reducing the toxic pollutants from coal combustion that damage our hearts, lungs, and brains.
Today, we ask for just 5 minutes of your time to sign and promote a petition to President Obama calling for his leadership on two critical policy steps towards eliminating the nuclear threat.
The U.S. is at a crossroads for determining its future energy policy. While the U.S. relies heavily on coal for its energy needs, the health consequences of that reliance are multiple and have widespread and damaging impact. Please urge your Senators to protect our health, and our children's health, from coal pollution.
Tell your Senators to take action to prevent nuclear subsidies in the Senate climate bill. A climate bill with nuclear subsidies would not be a climate bill at all; we need the fastest, cleanest, safest and cheapest means of reducing carbon emissions, and nuclear power does not fit the bill.
The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama “attached special importance to Obama's vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons.” As advocates who have worked long and hard for nuclear disarmament, let us use this moment to amplify the call for transformational change. Tomorrow, your local newspapers will be filled with reports on the awarding of the prize. Your voice needs to be heard!
Health Professionals, please urge the Senate to confront global warming and build a healthy, safe energy future! Click the link below to send letters to your Senators.
Global warming poses grave consequences for human health. To protect against severe hurricanes, storms and flooding, intense heat waves, worsening air quality, and the spread of insect-borne and water-borne diseases, we must act quickly and definitively.
Please contact your Senators today and tell them that reprocessing is not a solution for spent fuel and does not belong in a climate bill.
Please contact President Obama today and tell him no more subsidies for the nuclear industry. It is essential that we address climate change by pursuing the fastest, cheapest, and cleanest alternatives first. Nuclear power does not meet these criteria. A bill with more giveaways for the nuclear industry is no solution to climate change.
As advocates who have worked long and hard for nuclear disarmament, let us use this moment to amplify the call for transformational change. Your voice needs to be heard!
President Obama states that he will “work with Russia to take U.S. and Russian ballistic missiles off hair trigger alert.” Call on President Obama to make good on this pledge.
For several years PSR has warned against the consequences of an encounter, or more dangerously a war, with Iran. We support efforts to prevent such an incident because of the potential grave consequences.
Promote clean renewable energy, prevent massive nuclear and coal subsidies, and reduce the threat of nuclear war! Join PSR for a Day of Action in Washington D.C, April 29, 2010.
Today, PSR is joining with dozens of organizations, representing millions of Americans, calling on the U.S. Senate to pass clean energy and climate legislation. Please tell your Senators that we can no longer delay action if we are to protect our health and the health of future generations from catastrophic climate change.
Physicians for Social Responsibility has released a groundbreaking medical report, “Coal’s Assault on Human Health,” which takes a new look at the devastating impacts of coal on the human body. Coal combustion releases mercury, particulate matter, nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, and dozens of other substances known to be hazardous to human health. This report looks at the cumulative harm inflicted by those pollutants on three major body organ systems: the respiratory system, the cardiovascular system, and the nervous system. The report also considers coal’s contribution to global warming, and the health implications of global warming. Read more »
Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) in partnership with American Nurses Association (ANA) and Health Care Without Harm (HCWH) have released the “Hazardous Chemicals In Health Care” report, detailing the first investigation ever of chemicals found in the bodies of health care professionals. The inquiry found that all of the 20 participants had toxic chemicals associated with health care in their bodies. Each participant had at least 24 individual chemicals present, four of which are on the recently released Environmental Protection Agency list of priority chemicals for regulation. These chemicals are all associated with chronic illness and physical disorders. Read more »
Every day, pregnant women are exposed to toxic substances that can be harmful to their babies. Potential effects include physical defects, learning disabilities, and other disorders. This pamphlet suggests some easy things you can do to protect your baby’s health. Read more »