Webinar: Adding sparkle to your LTE
Issue: climate change | environment & health | federal government | renewable energy
Type: training | video
Submitting a letter to the editor is a good way to voice your views and educate your community. But how to write an LTE that gets published? Watch this training session for advice.
Petition to Phase Down Fossil Fuel Production on Public Lands
Issue: climate change | environment & health | environmental justice | federal government | fracking & methane
Type: letter to policymaker
Petition to President Biden and Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland demanding a phase down of fossil fuel production on public lands and waters, signed by a coalition of conservation, environmental justice, public health, indigenous, climate, faith-based, and community non-governmental organizations, including PSR. Download
Letter on National Fracking Ban
Issue: climate change | environment & health | federal government | fracking & methane
Type: letter to policymaker
Letter signed by PSR and partner groups, asking Members of Congress to endorse the Future Generations Protection Act, which would ban fracking nationwide. Download
NHTSA Comments
Issue: air pollution | climate change | environment & health | environmental justice | federal government
Type: letter to policymaker
PSR joined partner groups in signing onto these comments to the Department of Transportation and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on strengthening fuel economy standards for passenger vehicles, citing the health benefits of improved air quality. Download
Climate Psychiatry 101
Issue: climate change | environment & health | health care
Type: fact sheet
Climate change can affect mental health and increase stress, violence, and suicide. PSR has partnered with the Climate Psychiatry Alliance to share information about the mental health impacts of climate change. Download
Building Electrification, Climate, and Health: An Advocacy Toolkit
Issue: climate change | environment & health | environmental justice | fracking & methane
Type: advocacy materials | toolkit
A toolkit of resources on building electrification, featuring materials created by PSR chapters.
Improving the Built Environment to Reduce Indoor Heat-Related Illnesses and Deaths
Issue: climate change | environment & health
Type: report
Greater Boston PSR Heat waves can produce dangerous indoor heat, especially for people who don’t have or can’t afford air conditioning. Heat pumps can help. Download
Letter on Federal Fossil Fuel Programs
Issue: climate change | environment & health | environmental justice | federal government | fracking & methane
Type: letter to policymaker
A letter to Interior Secretary Debra Haaland, signed by PSR, calling on the Biden administration to undertake a comprehensive environmental review to align federal fossil fuel programs with the goal of limiting warming to 1.5 Celsius. Download
Health Groups Call for Climate and Health Investments in COVID Recovery
Issue: air pollution | climate change | covid | environment & health | environmental justice | federal government
Type: letter to policymaker
Letter to President Biden signed by PSR and partner groups, urging him to support COVID recovery legislation that invests in a healthier future for the nation by cleaning up air pollution, addressing climate change and ensuring environmental justice.
5 Things You Should Know about Climate Change
Issue: climate change | environment & health
Type: fact sheet
It’s real, it’s happening now, and it’s human-caused. OK, you already knew that. Climate change endangers health in so many ways. Rising temperatures can cause heat stroke, increase conditions for formation of ground-level ozone (smog), and create dangerous urban “heat islands.” Heat and drought can reduce crop yields and create conditions for devastating …