PSR Testimony on Toxic Mercury Pollution
Issue: air pollution | children's health | coal | environment & health | environmental justice | federal government | safe food & water | toxic chemicals
Type: testimony
On September 8th, 2021, Barbara Gottlieb, Environment and Health Program director, represented Physicians for Social Responsibility in front of the United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB). She commented on the need for the EPA to reinstate their Mercury and Air Toxics rule, which was cut during the previous administration. This rule limits toxic … Continue reading PSR Testimony on Toxic Mercury Pollution
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.
Letter to EPA on Methane and VOC
Issue: air pollution | environment & health | federal government | fracking & methane
Type: letter to policymaker
PSR, joined by 29 other health organizations and 9 PSR chapters, sent a letter to EPA Administrator Regan requesting strong action to control methane and VOC emissions from the oil and gas industry.
Video: Fracking with Your Health
Issue: environment & health | fracking & methane | safe food & water | toxic chemicals
Type: video
Physicians for Social Responsibility aren’t fracking with your health. It’s time our energy sources did the same.
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
Fracking with “Forever Chemicals”: Slideshow
Issue: environment & health | fracking & methane | safe food & water | toxic chemicals
Type: powerpoint
Slide presentation summarizing PSR’s latest report, “Fracking with ‘Forever’ Chemicals.”
Fracking with “Forever Chemicals”
Issue: environment & health | fracking & methane | safe food & water | toxic chemicals
Type: report
This report presents previously unpublicized evidence that major oil and gas companies, including ExxonMobil and Chevron, have used per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), or substances that could degrade into PFAS, in hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) for oil and gas in more than 1,200 wells in six U.S. states. Toxic in minuscule concentrations, these man-made chemicals accumulate … Continue reading Fracking with “Forever Chemicals”
Webinar: Exposé on use in fracking of previously unknown, highly dangerous chemicals
Issue: environment & health | fracking & methane | safe food & water | toxic chemicals
Type: video
PSR has released an important exposé documenting the use of previously unknown, highly dangerous chemicals in fracking. Watch our webinar on these groundbreaking findings below.
Nuclear Weapons Community Cost Calculator
Issue: nuclear weapons | U.S. nuclear policy
Type: fact sheet | toolkit
Each April, Dr. Bob Dodge, PSR-Los Angeles Board Member and co-founder of Citizens for Peaceful Resolutions, calculates the cost of nuclear weapons programs to our communities. See what the costs are in your community.
No First Use Fact Sheet
Issue: federal government | foreign policy | no first use | nuclear weapons | U.S. nuclear policy
Type: fact sheet
Fact sheet from PSR on the No First Use Act, introduced by Rep. Adam Smith and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, which would restrict the United States from using nuclear weapons except in response to a nuclear attack.