5 Things You Should Know About Climate Change
And what YOU can do to help! 1. It’s real, it’s happening now, and it’s human-caused.
PSR to President Biden: “Re-seal the Deal” with Iran
Candidate Joe Biden prioritized re-entering the Iran nuclear deal. But now that he is in office, President Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and their counterparts in Iran have entered into a slow-motion dance, each waiting for the other to lead. Iranian leaders say they want sanctions relief before they will return to the Joint …
Time for Congress to Re-think Security
Sen. Markey and Rep. Khanna introduced the Investing in Cures Before Missiles Act to divert $1 billion
from development of a new nuclear missile to development of a universal coronavirus vaccine. Brilliant!
Recordings now available: Back from the Brink / ICAN Virtual Conference
The March 4 virtual policy briefing, Ending Nuclear Weapons Before They End Us, jointly convened by Back from the Brink and the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) saw participation by over 600 people in 28 countries. Weren’t able to attend? No worries: recordings of all the virtual briefing presentations and workshops — plus …
PSR welcomes New EPA Administrator
Michael Regan, new Administrator of the U.S. EPA, will place science and justice at the heart of environmental protection. We look forward to working with him and, under his leadership, a reinvigorated EPA.
When the Kids Started Getting Sick
After pressure from families, Pennsylvania has launched studies into whether fracking can be linked to cancer in kids. This article from the New Yorker quotes PSR-PA’s Tammy Murphy.
A Plan for a Clean-Energy Transition
How can we create good jobs, build the economy back to be more equitable, and transition to a 100% clean-energy future? PSR signed onto this letter to Congress that proposes how.
Should America buy new missiles in the middle of a deadly pandemic?
As the U.S continues to recover from Covid-19, America is moving forward with plans to build a new weapon of mass destruction. The U.S Air Force hopes to build more than 600 of them, with each of these land-based missiles carrying a warhead over 20 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. …
Advancing the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
Commentary from Tillman Ruff of ICAN, who calls the treaty a game-changer.
Sign Oregon PSR’s petition to Oregon State University: research nuclear disarmament
Oregon State University has received a grant from the National Nuclear Security Administration to work on computer simulations regarding the safety and security of the United States’ nuclear weapons stockpile. Please sign Oregon PSR’s petition to encourage OSU’s respected scientists and researchers to consider dismantling the U.S. nuclear stockpile in their simulations, because the safest …