California Votes to Support U.N. Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty, Restrict Presidential Authority for Nuclear Strike
The California Senate has voted to approve AJR 33, a resolution introduced by Assemblymember Monica Limón that urges the U.S. to embrace the U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and implement important protective nuclear policies.
PSR Rejects the Trump Administration's Proposal to Gut the Clean Power Plan
Today President Trump and Acting Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler announced their proposal to dismantle the Clean Power Plan.
Baltimore and Los Angeles city councils vote to support nuclear disarmament
August 6 and 9, 2018, marked the 73rd anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Among the 76+ commemoration events around the country were two in city council chambers. The city councils of Baltimore and Los Angeles voted , August 6 and August 8, to adopt resolutions urging the United States to embrace the …
PSR, San Francisco PSR Help Ban Neurotoxic Pesticide!
PSR National office and the San Francisco chapter are proud to have helped win a victory for public health and for science-based decision-making: The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's refusal to ban agricultural uses of the organophosphate pesticide chlorpyrifos. PSR is among the contributors of an amicus brief on …
Chesapeake PSR Praised for Clean Energy Work
The Baltimore Sun newspaper in a recent editorial applauded Chesapeake PSR for calling out the "hypocrisy" of Maryland's renewable energy practices and welcomed the chapter's new report, Unbundled: How Renewable Energy Credits Undermine Maryland's Transition to Clean, Renewable Energy. The report critiques Maryland's policy of allowing utilities to buy huge shares of out-of-state renewable tax …
Tell your senators to reject Brett Kavanaugh!
INACTIVE – Tell your senators to stand up for health and the environment by rejecting Brett Kavanaugh.