Data Centers and Health – A New Webinar Series
Across the U.S., we are seeing a massive buildout of AI data centers with growing impacts on our environment and health. Join Physicians for Social Responsibility, the Medical Society Consortium on Climate Change and Health, Healthy Climate Wisconsin, Alliance of...
Where There’s Smoke…
by Paige Knappenberger, PSR Environment & Health Director Like many families across the Northeast, ours had our plans upended in July by smoke from wildfires burning nearly 2,000 miles away in Ontario. Instead of spending the weekend outdoors, we kept our kids...
Hot, Tick Summer
by Paige Knappenberger, Director, Environment & Health Program A tick fell on my husband’s face last weekend as we watched our sons play on our back patio in Northwest Washington, DC. I grew up in Arizona, so ticks were never something I worried about as a kid....
For Public Health and to Save Money, New York Needs Renewable Energy
We need clean, renewable energy to protect our health and to drive down energy costs. As organizations representing public and environmental health as well as frontline healthcare professionals, including the American Lung Association, Alliance of Nurses for Healthy...
Tell Congress: Polluters aren’t above the law!
As if polluters haven’t received enough big breaks over the last year, just in time for Earth Day, Congress wants to give them a gift they’ve always wanted: complete immunity. Republican lawmakers have now introduced legislation in both chambers of Congress that would...
This is the 81st anniversary of our country having used A-bombs that killed about 200,000 people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This followed the ...
The Mixed Metaphors and Messages at Vandenberg The following is an article by Scott Fina originally published in the Santa Barbara Independent on ...
The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) published its congressional report on April 2, 2024 titled as a warning, “Nuclear Power Plants: NRC Should ...