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Nuclear Power and Public Health: Lessons from Fukushima, Still Dangerously...
One year after the Fukushima reactor crisis in Japan, no meaningful progress has been achieved in improving the ability of first responders and medical professionals to react to a disaster on a similar...
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Nuclear Famine: Two Billion People at Risk?
In “Nuclear Famine: Two Billion People at Risk?” researchers report that the climatic effects of a “limited” nuclear war between Pakistan and India would cut crop production worldwide, putting up to 2...
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Body Count
Casualty Figures after 10 Years of the “War on Terror” Authored by IPPNW-Germany, this report is a comprehensive account of the vast human toll of the “Wars on Terror” conducted in the name of the...
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Selling Our Health Down the River
Why EPA Needs to Finalize the Strongest Rule to Stop Water Pollution from Power Plants The Environmental Protection Agency recently set the first federal limits on how much arsenic, mercury, selenium,...
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30 Years Living with Chernobyl, 5 Years Living with Fukushima
Health Effects of the Nuclear Disasters in Chernobyl and Fukushima This report, co-released by PSR and International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, provides detailed and sobering updates...
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Too Dirty, Too Dangerous
Why health professionals reject natural gas PSR’s report, Too Dirty, Too Dangerous: Why Health Professionals Reject Natural Gas, based on summaries of recent medical and scientific studies, clearly...
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Saving Energy, Saving Lives
The Health Impacts of Avoiding Power Plant Pollution with Energy Efficiency We often hear that energy efficiency saves money and creates jobs, but what do we know about its public health benefits? PSR...
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Flammable, High-Pressure Industry in a Populated Coastal Flood Zone?
Public Safety and Emergency Response Aspects of a Proposed Methane Gas Compressor in Weymouth This new report from Greater Boston PSR examines the public safety and emergency response aspects of a...
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Compendium of Scientific, Medical, and Media Findings Demonstrating Risks and...
The sixth edition of the fracking “Compendium,” which summarizes and links to an almost encyclopedic compilation of reports, peer-reviewed articles and investigative reporting on fracking’s dangerous...
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Heat, Fire, Water: How Climate Change Has Created a Public Health Emergency
Heat, Fire, Water and the Public Health Emergency Extreme heat, billowing wildfires, and water–either too much or not enough–are today’s faces of climate change. PSR board member Alan Lockwood, MD,...
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Climate and Health Risks of Liquified Natural Gas
Read PSR’s report on liquified natural gas (LNG) and its implications for our environment, our health, and our climate. Download The post Climate and Health Risks of Liquified Natural Gas appeared...
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Health Effects from Gas Stove Pollution
A new report, coauthored by PSR, documents dangerous levels of indoor air pollution from gas stoves. The report presents scientific evidence that gas stoves release several hazardous pollutants,...
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Legality of Nuclear Weapons
Some experts argue that nuclear weapons are already illegal under international law. Meanwhile, the United States—with 1,750 deployed nuclear weapons—and eight other nuclear-armed nations unequivocally...
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Enough is Enough: 2019 Global Nuclear Weapons Spending
In its report “Enough is Enough: Global Nuclear Weapons Spending 2020” the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons has produced the first estimate in nearly a decade of global nuclear weapon...
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Running Out of Time
Why U.S. Health and Life Insurance Companies Should Divest from Fossil Fuels Climate change has emerged in recent decades as a grave threat to human health and the economy. Nevertheless, many health...
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Convincing Nuclear-armed Countries to Take the Path to Total Elimination of...
With the upcoming entry into force of the nuclear ban treaty, an important question arises: what strategy can we, American civil society groups, adopt to leverage the TPNW to steer the U.S. and the...
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Compendium of Scientific, Medical, and Media Findings Demonstrating Risks and...
Seventh Edition A collection of nearly 2,000 abstracts of medical, scientific and investigative reports about the consequences of oil and gas drilling, fracking, and associated infrastructure. Presents...
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Air Pollution and Covid-19: A Dangerous Combination
Does living near active oil and gas wells increase rates of COVID-19 infection and death? PSR explores this chilling possibility in a new white paper, Air Pollution and COVID-19: A Dangerous...
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Fracking with “Forever Chemicals”
This report presents previously unpublicized evidence that major oil and gas companies, including ExxonMobil and Chevron, have used per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), or substances that could...
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Improving the Built Environment to Reduce Indoor Heat-Related Illnesses and...
Greater Boston PSR Heat waves can produce dangerous indoor heat, especially for people who don’t have or can’t afford air conditioning. Heat pumps can help. Download The post Improving the Built...
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