PSR Fact Sheet on New START Treaty
Issue: disarmament | foreign policy | nuclear weapons | u.s. nuclear policy
Type: fact sheet | nuclear | nuclear weapons
PSR Fact Sheet on New START Treaty.
Back from the Brink: A Call to Prevent Nuclear War
Issue: disarmament | no first use | nuclear weapons | u.s. nuclear policy
Type: fact sheet
Many local and national organizations have endorsed the “Back from the Brink” resolution. Are you associated with a group that might support this? Introduce this resolution at your church, synagogue, civic group, medical association, university, or municipality.
Climate and Health Risks of Liquified Natural Gas
Issue: air pollution | climate change | environment & health | environmental justice | fracking & methane | safe food & water
Type: report
Read PSR’s report on liquified natural gas (LNG) and its implications for our environment, our health, and our climate.
27 Organizations Submit Joint Comments Regarding New Source Performance Standards
Issue: climate change | environment & health | environmental justice | federal government | fracking & methane | safe food & water
Type: letter to policymaker | testimony
PSR, the American Lung Association, 10 PSR chapters and 15 other health organizations submitted comments to the U.S. EPA opposing its proposal to roll back limits on emissions of methane from oil and gas wells.
Letter on Clean Energy Tax Incentives
Issue: climate change | environment & health | federal government | renewable energy
Type: letter to policymaker
Letter signed by PSR and partner groups to the leaders of the House Committee on Ways and Means and the Senate Committee on Finance, urging support for important tax incentives to drive innovation and wider deployment of clean energy technologies, including energy storage, electric vehicles, renewable energy and energy efficiency.
Letter to Senator Reed on “Low-Yield” Nuclear Weapons
Issue: federal government | nuclear weapons | u.s. nuclear policy
Type: letter to policymaker
PSR letter to Senator Jack Reed (RI), ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, urging him to eliminate funding for the dangerous and unnecessary W76-2 nuclear warhead.
PSR Solar Energy Fact Sheet
Issue: climate change | environment & health | renewable energy
Type: fact sheet
A new PSR fact sheet on solar energy.
Heat, Fire, Water: How Climate Change Has Created a Public Health Emergency
Issue: climate change | environment & health
Type: report
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 phenomena in a new white paper: Heat, Fire, Water: How Climate Change has Created a Public Health …
Renewable Energy and Health
Issue: air pollution | climate change | environment & health | environmental justice | renewable energy
Type: fact sheet
New fact sheet from PSR on the health benefits of renewable energy.
Climate and Health: Storms and Sea Level
Issue: climate change | environment & health
Type: fact sheet
A fact sheet from PSR on how climate worsens extreme weather.