NOVEMBER 17, 2021 PSR Member News, Action Updates, Anti-Nuclear and California Policy Watch, and More During the first two weeks of November, as we watched Congress haggle over Biden’s infrastructure and Build Back Better plans, oil executives testify at congressional hearings attempting to hold them accountable, and world leaders posture at the United ...
Governments: commit to meaningful military emissions cuts at COP26, Oct-Nov, 2021 SF Bay PSR and many other PSR chapters joined more than 222 organizations to endorsed this joint call to action organized by the Conflict and Environment Observatory. The 2015 Paris Agreement left cutting military greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to the discretion of individual nations. ...
Health Professionals Say Climate Change is a Health Crisis and Line 3 Threatens Our Air, Water, and Future Generations. August 17, 2021, a group of 15 health professionals and allies in San Francisco came together peacefully in front of the SF Army Corp of Engineers San Francisco headquarters to stand in solidarity with Indigenous and ...
As of September 30, 2021, the letter was submitted to President Biden and Congress with over 300 signatures of local elected leaders from 41 states expressing their support for nuclear weapons abolition, eliminating wasteful nuclear weapons spending, and enacting common sense policies to reduce the threat of nuclear war. Thank you to PSR-LA and Denise ...
At our Annual Gala on September 22, 2021, we presented three awards to early career/student health professionals for outstanding achievements in health activism in environmental justice and anti-racism in medicine, and the climate crisis and health. Our awardees are given a certificate and $250 each. CONGRATULATIONS! You three inspire all of us at SF Bay ...
Bravo to Dr. Robin Cooper, SF Bay PSR Environmental committee member, for her work addressing mental health issues caused by the climate crisis. SF Public Press: Battling Despair Over a New Climate Change Reality
Alma Hernandez coordinates our building electrification community outreach project. Jasmine Campos supports our Nuclear Weapons Abolition Committee including tracking our anti-nuclear policy work, and she helps with social media, and events. Daisy Valdivieso continues to support the Environmental Health Committee and to diligently track our CA environmental policy work. Alma Hernandez: I graduated from Berkeley ...
Over 450 doctors from 50 states, Washington DC, and Puerto Rico call for democracy reforms to protect human health in the climate health emergency. By Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health and Climate Health Now.
