Aug 24, 2026
The transportation sector emits the most greenhouse gas pollution compared to electricity generation, industry, agriculture and other significant sources. Diesel trucks and other heavy-duty vehicles are major contributors to this carbon pollution among other hazardous...
Aug 20, 2026
Across the country, we are seeing a massive buildout of AI data centers, and more and more communities are looking for ways to either block construction of data centers in their communities because they are (rightly) concerned about health harms arising from fossil...
Jul 27, 2026
Across the United States, the climate crisis and its health harms are not some distant threat; they’re hitting home. Wildfires are destroying neighborhoods and burning millions of acres. Hurricanes are intensifying. Floods are swallowing communities. Historic droughts...
Jul 24, 2026
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...
Jul 22, 2026
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...
May 20, 2026
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....