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Educating boards of health about coal. Read Code Black Alert!

Top 5 Worst Administration Actions Exposing Americans to Toxic Chemicals
The deregulation of the chemical industry and weakening of U.S. government regulatory process for chemicals has led to an alarmingly high rate of contamination in the environment and the bodies of those exposed to a variety of chemicals. Read more...

AJPM links Health, Climate Change
A Special Issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine highlights the link between climate change and public health, with guest editors issuing a call to action to address the problem. For more, click here.

Suit Challenges Legality of Proposed Kansas City Nuclear Weapons Plant
PSR and a coalition of environmental and peace organizations have asked a federal court to stop the moving of a nuclear weapon production facility because the government agencies involved refused to consider the significant environmental impacts of the move. For more information, click here.

PSR is pleased to welcome four new staff members to our Washington, DC office. Barbara Gottlieb, Mary Dillon Kerwin, Michele Boyd, and Peter Wilk.

EPA: Global Warming Poses “Substantial” Health Threat
The United States Environmental Protection Agency published a new report July 17, 2008, claiming climate change will pose a “substantial” threat to human health. The report was published just days after the agency postponed regulation of the pollutants blamed for global warming until the next administration. View the report here.

This ad was created by PSR with the artistic assistance of The Action Mill. The ad ran in Politico, a thrice weekly publication that is delivered to Congressional offices and to hundreds of policy makers in Washington, DC.

Long Term Costs of Iraq War Overwhelming

A report to be released by PSR with Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) shows that the mental and social trauma from the Iraq war will be with the U.S. for decades and that actual fiscal cost may exceed those for combat activities. Dr. Evan Kanter, a member of the Board of Directors for PSR, compiled the report that details more than $650 billion in long term costs as well as mental disabilities and disruptions to families of returning veterans. Read more...

PSR Physician Finds Regional Nuclear War Could Kill One Billion People
Physician and PSR Board member Dr. Ira Helfand has presented a paper arguing that even a limited use of nuclear weapons could cost more than a billion lives globally. Read the paper here.

Medical Alliance to Stop Global Warming
Student leaders are bringing the critical issue of global warming to medical schools around the country. Learn more…

Dirty, Dangerous and Expensive: The Truth About Nuclear Power
Nuclear power is not the solution to global warming. A new fact sheet from PSR dispels the myths of nuclear power as a clean, safe, and affordable energy source. (Web Version, PDF)