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PSR has been working for more than 50 years to create a healthy, just and peaceful world for both the present and the future generations. Join us.

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Citizen Advocacy for Climate Action Now: 100% Clean Energy Economy
Citizen Advocacy Opportunity: Meet with your U.S. Representative while they are in-state, asking for their support of the "100% Clean Energy Economy of 2019" bill.
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“Heat, Fire, Water” and the Public Health Emergency
Extreme heat, billowing wildfires, and water—either too much or not enough—are today’s faces of climate change. PSR board member Alan Lockwood, MD, FAAN profiles the health effects of these frightening...
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Medical Schools Now Moving to Teach Future Doctors to Address Climate Change
In a healthy and welcome trend, physicians are persuading medical schools to teach the nation’s future doctors about the connection between climate and health, so our future health professionals are...
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PSR Opposes LNG-by-Rail
PSR opposes the Trump Administration’s reckless proposal to allow liquefied natural gas (LNG) to be hauled by train. If such a train were to derail, the result could be a...
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Physicians for Social Responsibility Opposes U.S. Withdrawal from the INF Treaty
PSR firmly opposes President Donald Trump’s dangerous decision to withdraw from the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. Read our statement.
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AMA Adopts Sweeping Climate Change Education Policy
The American Medical Association (AMA) adopted at its June 2019 meeting a sweeping new policy that pledges the organization to promote education for medical students and physicians on the topic...
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Recent Heat Wave Kills Six, Harms Health of Others
This past weekend’s heat wave across the country had lethal consequences. According to estimates, six people have died from heat-related illnesses. Millions more endured the heat and may suffer subsequent...
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A public health emergency
Letter to the editor from PSR member Dr. Alan Peterson in LNP on the public health emergency that is climate change.
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Let’s eliminate nuclear weapons now
Letter to the editor in the Tampa Bay Times from PSR Florida's Dr. Lynn Ringenberg.
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Areas of Focus

PSR advocates on the issues you care about by addressing the dangers that threaten communities, using our medical and public health expertise to prevent nuclear war and proliferation, reverse our trajectory towards climate change, protect the public and our environment from toxic chemicals and eliminate the use of nuclear power.

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Nuclear Weapons

Working for a nuclear weapons-free world.

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Nuclear Disarmament & Public Health

Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty

U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy

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Environment & Health

A strong medical voice for climate solutions.

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Clean Renewable Energy

Fighting Fracked Gas

Health Leadership on Climate

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