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Final Push Towards Victory! Your Voice Needed Now! Take action!
Make a difference in the challenge to confront global warming and prevent nuclear war and the development and use of nuclear weapons.
The future of the disarmament agenda is on the line now as New START ratification moves forward in the US Senate.
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!
This past December, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized its finding under the Clean Air Act that greenhouse gases (such as carbon dioxide) in the atmosphere endanger both the public health and the environment for current and future generations. This action was a result of the Supreme Court ruling in Massachusetts v. EPA (2007) that greenhouse gases are air pollutants covered by the Clean Air Act. This landmark decision offered a critical tool for the EPA to begin to take action to limit greenhouse gas emission from motor vehicles as well large emitters like coal fired power plants.
Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) is about to introduce an amendment to stop the EPA from taking science based protective action to limit these greenhouse gases. She is trying to have this amendment attached to a must-pass bill to lift the debt ceiling. If adopted, this amendment would remove the EPA's enforcement funding and power so that big polluters like the coal and oil industries can ignore the Clean Air Act.
Your senators must hear from you. The stakes are high and the pressure by these powerful lobbies to stop global warming action is intense. Every vote counts - please email and call your senators today and urge them to vote NO on this dangerous amendment.
Take Action »Coal ash is toxic, widespread, and leaking. Tell the EPA today that this problem requires effective, mandatory federal regulation.
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.
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
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 »
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