Gov. Wolf, examine the health risks of fracking
Letter to the Editor in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette by Tammy Murphy, PSR Pennsylvania.
Prohibition of nuclear weapons an ongoing struggle
Interview on the Scholar’s Circle podcast with PSR board member Ira Helfand, MD.
The Growing Case against Fracking
Article from the Progressive featuring the fracking science Compendium by PSR and Concerned Health Professionals of NY.
Trump’s EPA Calls for Dirty Power As Climate Crisis Accelerates
In Sierra magazine, PSR Environment & Health Director Barbara Gottlieb discusses how the inadequate Affordable Clean Energy rule—the Trump Administration’s replacement for the Clean Power Plan—fails to reduce carbon emissions and endangers health.
New Analysis of Fracking Science Finds Serious Harms to Public Health, Environment, and Climate
A major new report by PSR and Concerned Health Professionals of NY compiles, tracks, and analyzes key trends about drilling, fracking, and its infrastructure, and demonstrates that there are pervasive, grave misunderstandings about the effects of natural gas and fracking.
New Fracking “Compendium” Now Available
The sixth edition of the fracking “Compendium” has just been released. PSR is proud to partner with Concerned Health Professionals of New York in preparing and rolling out this volume, which provides abstracts and electronic links to an almost encyclopedic compilation of reports, peer-reviewed articles and investigative reporting on fracking’s dangerous impacts on health.
Physicians for Social Responsibility: Finalized ACE Rule Puts People’s Health at Risk
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released their finalized Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule, replacing the Clean Power Plan. The Clean Power Plan, the first-ever federal policy to reduce harmful carbon pollution from existing power plants, would have achieved meaningful reductions in those emissions, while the ACE rule sets no carbon pollution limits on power plants.
Help stop fracked gas: Protect our communities and climate!
INACTIVE – We’re asking you to help us protect the world’s climate and the health of our communities—by speaking out against a proposal to build a massive fracked-gas export facility in Oregon.
Tell presidential candidates: The U.S. must never start a nuclear war!
INACTIVE – Please sign our joint petition to all U.S. presidential candidates.
The Climate Crisis Is Also a Health Emergency
Op-ed in Common Dreams by Olivia Alperstein, PSR Media Relations Manager.