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The future of the disarmament agenda is on the line now as New START ratification moves forward in the US Senate.

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  • Write EPA now for protection from toxic hazards of coal ash

    Coal ash is toxic, widespread, and leaking. Tell the EPA today that this problem requires effective, mandatory federal regulation.

  • Tell your senators to block rollbacks to the Clean Air Act!

    We can lower carbon pollution by fully implementing the Clean Air Act. Don't let dirty fossil fuel industries pressure members of Congress to tie the EPA's hands and place profits before health.

  • Don't slash air pollution requirements for coal plants!

    Tell your senators: Don't exempt coal-fired power plants from curbing dangerous air pollution.

  • Call Congress to demand safer chemicals

    Current laws are not protecting us from toxic chemical exposures. Tell your congressperson to put health first by ensuring that chemicals are tested for safety before they are allowed on the market.

  • Protect Americans from toxic chemical exposure

    Ask your members of Congress to protect Americans from toxic chemical exposure.

  • Ask the EPA to support real TSCA reform

    Right now legislation is being drafted in Congress to reform the main federal chemical safety law -- the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). It is critical that EPA support the strongest version of this legislation, one that includes taking swift action on chemicals we already know to be dangerous.

  • Help protect your community from dangerous chemical releases

    Putting millions of Americans needlessly at risk from poisonous chemicals at chemical plants is unacceptable. Tell your Senators to support health-protective chemical security legislation.

  • Urgent Vote Coming - Tell Congress to Defend the Clean Air Act

    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!

  • Urgent Vote Coming - Defend the Clean Air Act

    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!

  • Support EPA’s Efforts to Reduce Carbon Emissions

    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.

  • Coal's Assault on Human Health

    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.

  • Health Professionals, send a message to your Senators

    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.

  • Help Create Strong Climate Legislation

    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.

  • Protect Our Health from Toxic Chemicals

    Evidence of widespread contamination of human beings makes it clear that the nation’s outdated and ineffective chemical management system must be reformed. Tell your Representative and your Senators that we must protect our health from toxic chemicals.

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Resources

  • Hope for a Heated Planet

    Author Bob Musil, former PSR executive director and now scholar-in-residence at American University, has written an insightful and informative account about the climate change issue and how it has finally emerged in the public’s mind as a major public health concern. Read more »

  • Climate Chaos

    Written thoughtfully for a lay audience, this book by PSR Board member Cindy Parker and psychologist and former journalist Steve Shapiro describes in lay terms how climate change will affect our health if it continues unabated. Read more »

  • Pediatric Environmental Health Toolkit Pediatric Environmental Health Toolkit

    The Toolkit is a combination of easy-to-use reference guides for health providers and user-friendly health education materials on preventing exposures to toxic chemicals and other substances that affect infant and child health. Read more »

In the Spotlight

  • August 16, 2010
    Countdown to Zero
    On the 65th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, the Sacramento Annual August Peace Event and Physicians for Social Responsibility-Sacramento screened "Countdown To Zero," a film that traces the history of the atomic bomb from its origins to the present state of global affairs. Read more about this month’s chapter in the spotlight event on Hiroshima.