Physicians for Social Responsibility

After decades of advocacy, we won strong, health-protective coal ash standards in 2015 and 2024. Now, EPA wants to roll them back. Earlier this year, we asked you to submit comments in defense of federal protections when they proposed a delay of enforcement. EPA’s latest proposal goes even further in repealing past standards and giving yet another hand out to industry.

The Greyhound

The concerns on display stretched well beyond immigration. Terry Fitzgerald, 77, a Baltimore physician with Chesapeake Physicians for Social Responsibility, worked the crowd distributing flyers for Bac...

Delivered by Magritte Gordaneer
May 1, 2026

Honorable Chair, Distinguished Delegates, and Civil Society Colleagues,

We are in a crisis — you wouldn’t know that walking into this room.

In January, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set the Doomsday Clock to 85 seconds to midnight — the closest we have been to nuclear w...

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 Environments, Concerned Health Professionals of New York, and Physicians for Social Responsibility, we urg...

On April 10th, the Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Survey (PEIS) from the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) was released. This survey addresses the environmental impacts of the production of more plutonium pits for nuclear w...