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PSR Sues to Protect Public Lands from Fracking
PSR and an environmental organization filed suit in federal court this month to overturn leases that permit fracking for oil and gas on nearly two million acres of public lands...
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No War With Iran: An Urgent Week of Action to Prevent a War
The week of January 6 saw several important events and developments in both congressional and grassroots efforts to convince American decision-makers to deescalate tensions with Iran and prevent an all-out...
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Welcome win against gas pipeline!
In a significant win for environmental justice and the climate, a federal court has overturned a key permit for a Virginia compressor station on the proposed Atlantic Coast fracked-gas pipeline....
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Iran – Urgent: Weigh in Now
NOW is the time to tell your senators to support S.J. Res. 68, the Kaine War Powers Resolution to limit the President's military actions regarding Iran.
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Physicians for Social Responsibility: The U.S. Assassination of Major General Qassem Suleimani Underscores the Urgent Need to Reenter the Iran Deal
On January 2, President Trump ordered the killing of a top Iranian military commander, Major General Qassem Suleimani. This move comes in the wake of several other recent incidents that...
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Clean Energy Wins: Home Heating, Cooking
PSR has rolled up its sleeves to join a significant new battle for the climate:  the campaign to replace appliances that burn gas (a.k.a. methane, a.k.a. fracked gas) with appliances...
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In the News
The road to Armageddon — our two existential threats and the 2020 presidential race
Op-ed in The Hill by Robert Dodge, MD, PSR Board Member.
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Evanston takes stand against nuclear conflict
Letter to the Editor in the Daily Herald by Sarah Lovinger, MD, PSR Chicago.
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Sounding the Alarm on Climate Change, 1989 and 2019
New England Journal of Medicine article discussing PSR's work on nuclear weapons and environmental health hazards.
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Lawsuit seeks to cancel oil and gas leases on New Mexico federal land
Albuquerque Journal article quoting Barbara Gottlieb, PSR Environment and Health director.
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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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