Health Groups Call for Climate and Health Investments in COVID Recovery
Issue: air pollution | climate change | 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.
Webinar: Fracking air pollution and Covid-19: Possible links?
Issue: air pollution | environment & health | environmental justice | fracking & methane
Type: video
Joint webinar from PSR and Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments, examining the possible links between air pollution from oil and gas operations and greater susceptibility to Covid-19. The webinar presents highlights of recent reports on this topic by both ANHE and PSR: Air Pollution and Covid-19: A Dangerous Combination Physicians for Social Responsibility Nurses …
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 …
Letter to EPA on Methane and Ethane
Issue: environment & health | federal government | fracking & methane
Type: letter to policymaker
Letter to the EPA asking for rulemaking to remove methane and ethane from “Negligibly Reactive” list, signed by PSR and partner groups.
Letter to Congress on Clean Energy Investment
Issue: climate change | environment & health | federal government | renewable energy
Type: letter to policymaker
Letter signed by PSR and partner groups, asking Congress to support a broad spectrum of clean-energy investments.
Letter to Congress on Electric Vehicles
Issue: air pollution | climate change | environment & health
Type: letter to policymaker
Letter to members of Congress signed by PSR and partner groups, in support of transitioning the nation to electric vehicles.
Air Pollution and Covid-19: A Dangerous Combination
Issue: air pollution | environment & health | environmental justice | fracking & methane
Type: report
Does living near active oil and gas wells increase rates of COVID-19 infection and death? PSR explores this chilling possibility in a new white paper, Air Pollution and COVID-19: A Dangerous Combination. The report examines five counties in Colorado and five in New Mexico, each with high levels of oil and gas activity. Among its …
Sustainability & Climate Change for Healthcare Practices: My Green Doctor
Issue: environment & health | health care
Type: toolkit
www.MyGreenDoctor.org My Green Doctor is a free practice management program offered by Physicians for Social Responsibility. Healthcare offices, clinics, and outpatient centers learn to make gradual improvements in their uses of energy, water, chemicals, paper, and other resources. The program is easy to use, adding only five minutes of Green Team business to each regular …
Compendium of Scientific, Medical, and Media Findings Demonstrating Risks and Harms of Fracking (Unconventional Gas and Oil Extraction)
Issue: environment & health | fracking & methane | safe food & water | toxic chemicals
Type: report
Seventh Edition A collection of nearly 2,000 abstracts of medical, scientific and investigative reports about the consequences of oil and gas drilling, fracking, and associated infrastructure. Presents evidence that these activities are dangerous to public health, the environment, and the climate cycle and a grave environmental justice issue, with communities of color, Indigenous people, and …
Running Out of Time
Issue: climate change | environment & health
Type: report
Why U.S. Health and Life Insurance Companies Should Divest from Fossil Fuels Climate change has emerged in recent decades as a grave threat to human health and the economy. Nevertheless, many health and life insurance companies remain heavily invested in the fossil fuel industry, investments which contradict their mission to protect human health and support …