A thought experiment on Earth Day
by Paige Knappenberger, Director of Environment & Health On Earth Day, I attended the 2025 National Academy of Medicine Climate Summit in DC. During a panel on extreme weather, Dr. David Callaway posed a powerful thought experiment: what if disasters like...
Environmental Justice under attack on Earth Day
Earth Day is meant to celebrate the wonders of this planet and to recommit to our duty to protect it for generations to come. Today, the Trump administration chose this occasion to notify more than 450 Environmental Protection Agency employees focused on environmental...
Member Perspectives on 3MSP in New York City
By Alfred Meyer John Reuwer, Ann Suellentrop, Magritte Gordaneer, and Alfred Meyer This blog post is intended to give you a sense of what citizen activism is achieving — the TPNW grew out of a proverbial ‘small group of dedicated people wanting to change the world,’...
Our Planet, Our Health: 2025 Climate Action Convention was a success!
Earlier this month, the Our Planet, Our Health 2025 Climate Action Convention was held in Washington, DC. PSR National was honored to be a part of the Planning Committee to help make this more than 300 attendee convention a success. In collaboration with the Medical...
PSR Delegation Attends the TPNW 3MSP in New York!
During the first week of March, PSR participated in the Third Meeting of States Parties (3MSP) to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) at the United Nations in New York City. PSR’s delegation joined leaders, advocates, and survivors to advance the...
By Christopher Overfelt Note: This is Issue 3 in the Midwest Weapons Report, by Christopher Overfelt. He calls the Midwest the backbone of ...
For Immediate Release Contact: Paige Knappenberger, pknappenberger@psr.org WASHINGTON – The President’s Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Request is an assault on health and equity. Many ...
The Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board of the National Academies is hosting its 46th Meeting on May 15 & 16. Among the topics ...
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/CCNSUpdate050225mc.mp3 During the early days of the pandemic, on March 10, 2020, LANL mailed a notice to people on the facility mailing ...
Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps, presented “Water Is Life, Nuclear Waste Is Toxic” at the annual meeting of Environment North, in ...
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps.] The Holtec and Nuclear Regulatory ...
By Dave Pack PeaceWorks Kansas City is seeking to create a KC “hub” of groups to work together in opposition to nuclear weapons, ...
We’re resisting nuclear weapons and spreading peace at the nuclear weapon plant in KC MO on two days: Sunday, May 18, and Monday, ...