Policy Updates
SF Bay PSR works diligently to advance science- and health-based policy and regulatory solutions to the interlinked public health emergencies of militarization and nuclear weapons, systemic racism and social inequity, environmental degradation, and the climate crisis.
For upcoming Actions please visit our Actions & Events, and see our ongoing Actions page, newsletters, and visit PSR National’s website here.
Special thanks to SF Bay PSR interns for their work tracking and researching policies.
EVENTS: Air District Climate Plan; Refinery Closures; Historic Peace Boat in SF Bay and more!
JULY 19, 2025 Sept 10: Buy tickets or sponsor HERE! ...
ACTIONS: July 28 SF Rally; Annual Anti-Nuclear Protest & Historic Peace Boat; and MORE!
JULY 19, 2025 Sept 10: Buy tickets or sponsor HERE! ...
Making Building Electrification Real in San Francisco’s Environmental Justice Communities
San Francisco Bay Physicians for Social Responsibility's Building Electrification ...
Earth Month: Invest in the Future We’re Fighting for! Before April 30, your gift will be tripled!
APRIL 22, 2025 Dear Friends: This Earth Month, we are ...
Stand Up for Science & Sanity Rally in Palo Alto, by Robert M. Gould, MD
April 4, 2025 Speech Given by SF Bay PSR President, ...
NEWS: Standing Together for Justice and Health for All
Friday, March 7, 2025: Stand Up for Science rally at ...
Show Your Love for Health, Climate, Peace, and Democracy!
FEBRUARY 13, 2025 Dear Friends: This Valentine’s Day, show your ...
Welcomes and Farewells: 2025 Interns!
FEBRUARY 5, 2025 We are thrilled to welcome our 2025 ...
And it begins…but together, we can still make a difference.
"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope." ...
You can help steer the world toward PEACE and Nuclear Abolition
DECEMBER 17, 2024 Dear Friends: Like you, we are worried ...
YOU are KEY to preventing what we cannot cure! Our Air Pollution Advocacy in View!
DECEMBER 10, 2024 Dear Friends: As health advocates, we strive ...
GIVE to Protect Community and Climate Health!
Join us! Left: Protesting for the abolition of nuclear weapons ...
Join the Resistance! Support Health and Science Solutions!
NOVEMBER 19, 2024 Dear Friends: As many of you are ...
Congratulations to our Emerging Health-Activist Awardees!
OCTOBER 2024 We are thrilled to share below four impressive ...
2024 California Climate and Health Policy Updates
Yes, that is PSR-LA's Executive Director Martha Dina Argüello to ...
Protecting Our Communities and Planet from the Harms of Nuclear Weapons and War
AUGUST 6, 2024 Dear PSR Friends and Colleagues, This week, ...
WELCOMES and FAREWELLS! SF Bay PSR Interns!
FEBRUARY 1, 2024 We are thrilled to welcome our ...
Peace Advocacy in the New Year
JANUARY 17, 2024 Our hearts are heavy as this momentous ...
HAPPY NEW YEAR from all of us at SF Bay PSR!
DECEMBER 28, 2023 It's not too late. You can still ...
Gifts for the next generation—invest in their future!
"Every step we take to move the world toward peace, ...
Happy Holidays and Health Voices Make Headlines!
Wishing you HEALTH, HAPPINESS, and PEACE this holiday season! DECEMBER ...
Our Health Voices Are Improving Air, Health, the Climate: Give to Help Us Keep Going
“Governor Newsom should ensure that the next generation of children ...
Global Climate and Health Threats, Local Efforts, and please GIVE!
"As a healthcare provider, I feel compelled to work with ...
2023 Accomplishments and Giving Opportunity!
"As a health worker, PSR is a home where I ...
Peace Caucus Call to Address Violence in Israel and Gaza, and Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)
November 1, 2023 Health Care and Public Health Professionals Call ...
2023 CA Policy Victories and Updates! The legislative session has ended and the Governor has signed bills into law!
OCTOBER 17, 2023 Together we helped to do all this! ...
Congrats to Emerging Health-Activist Awardees & More
OCTOBER 12, 2023 We are thrilled to share below four ...
ACTIONS! NEWS! GALA! Global Climate Marches! CA Sues Big Oil! Join the Gala!
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023 Global Climate Marches to End Fossil Fuels ...
On Hiroshima Week, World Medical Journals Call for Urgent Action to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons
AUGUST 2, 2023 This week, as we solemnly commemorate the ...
Emerging Health Voices: Congratulations!
JUNE 1, 2023 THANK YOU to everyone who gave to ...
California Policy Actions and Updates!
JUNE 1, 2023 Here in California, our health voices are ...
Peace Report from 23rd IPPNW World Congress in Mombasa, Kenya
JUNE 1, 2023 Physicians for Social Responsibility has for decades ...
Updates on Emerging Health Professional Activist Projects
April 2023 Below please find updates on Emerging Health Professional ...
VICTORY! Bay Area Air District Voted YES
March 15, 2023 SF Bay PSR and other members of ...
WELCOMES and FAREWELLS!
March 2023 We are thrilled to welcome our 2023 intern ...
2023 Community-Led Project Support
March 2023 SF Bay PSR provides community-led projects with financial, ...
2023 CA Policy Efforts: Join us!
March 2023 We invite you to help with these efforts ...
2023 Map: Join SF Bay PSR this year! Help us to save the world!
MARCH 14, 2023 Advocating for health-based solutions to our world's ...
Misinformation on gas stoves is swirling around the internet. Here’s what you need to know
SF Chronicle Op-Ed: Misinformation on gas stoves is swirling around ...
PRESS RELEASE: STUDY: Removing gas stoves from homes could prevent 20% of childhood asthma in California
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 6, 2022 MEDIA CONTACT: Chloe Zilliac ...
New Year! New Leaders! New Projects to Save the World!
DECEMBER 20, 2022 Dear Friends: As the new year approaches, ...
Our PEACE Work & Wishing you Happy Holidays!
DECEMBER 6, 2022 Dear Friends: We wish you healthy and ...
2022 SF Bay PSR Accomplishments
READ our 2022 Accomplishments Report!
Invest in CA’s Health and Climate
“As health professionals we are on the frontlines working to ...
Intertwined Health Crises—Climate and Nuclear Disasters
“The climate crisis is leading to greater international conflict, and ...
CONGRATS to our Young Health Professional Awardees, Interns, and Early Career Project Leaders
OCTOBER 13, 2022 Young Health Activists Give Us Hope We ...
Ensuring Inter-Generational Activism to Protect Public Health at California State University, East Bay
Twenty California State University – East Bay public health students, ...
CA Climate Policy Wins & Losses
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022 Before we dive into the news, ...
Knowledge of Building Electrification: A Brief Survey of the San Francisco/ East Bay Communities
By Alma Hernandez, B.A., Building Electrification SF Bay PSR Intern ...
Richmond Healthy Environment Project in collaboration with Richmond Shoreline Alliance
This project was made possible with generous funding from the ...
Welcomes and Farewells!
Welcomes and Farewells! SEPTEMBER 2022 We are thrilled to welcome ...
Nuclear Disarmament: A Growing Global Movement
text for space AUGUST 9, 2022 NEWS, ACTIONS, READINGS & ...
Becoming an Antinuclear Activist: From the Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident, 1979, to the ICAN Nuclear Ban Forum, 2022
AUGUST 9, 2022 By Howard Kornfeld, MD, SF Bay PSR ...
My Year in Kyoto, Japan: An Antinuclear Activist’s Perpsective
AUGUST 9, 2022 By Stephen Roddy, PhD, SF Bay PSR ...
Statement on SCOTUS Decision to Limit EPA’s Ability to Fight Climate Change
SF Bay PSR is alarmed by the Supreme Court’s recent ...
Statement on SCOTUS Decision to Overturn the Right to Abortion
San Francisco Bay Physicians for Social Responsibility (SF Bay PSR) ...
The Next Generation Needs Our Support More than Ever
May 2022 Dear Friends, Graduation season is here! We ...
HAPPY EARTH DAY from SF Bay PSR
April 22, 2022 Dear Friend, Over the last two weeks ...
NEW CA Climate Report: Help Us Amplify Health Voices
April 19, 2022 Dear Friends, Last week we wrote ...
UN Report on Climate: Health Voices Must Hold Governments Accountable
April 12, 2022 Dear Friends, You probably saw the United ...
Op-Ed Published: PSR Connects the Dots: Nuclear War on Our Doorstep
Bravo to SF Bay PSR Board Members Dr. Tova ...
Peace in Ukraine
Below please find recent efforts and reading list re: ...
SF Bay PSR’s 2022 Roadmap: Advocating for health-based solutions to our world’s crises for more than 40 years!!
MARCH 8, 2022 NEWS, STAFF & INTERN UPDATES, EVENTS ...
STAFF & INTERN NEWS: Welcomes and Farewells!
At the beginning of the year we said farewell to ...
Environmental Health Committee: JAN-MARCH 2022 UPDATES
Thank you to our intern Daisy Valdivieso for writing this ...
UPDATE: Advocating for clean-up of toxic and radioactive waste in Bayview Hunters Point Community, San Francisco
SF Bay PSR Board Member Aude Bouagnon and ...
Nuclear Weapons Abolition and Peace Efforts: March 2022 UPDATES
SF Bay PSR is working closely with the PSR National ...
PSR National and SF Bay PSR Call on CalPERS to Divest from Fossil Fuels
SF Bay PSR’s Divestment/Investment Task Force has been steadily pushing ...
BRAVO to all who joined the COP26 global day of action on Saturday, Nov 6!
On Saturday, November 6, SF Bay Physicians for Social Responsibility ...
Oct-Nov 2021: Healthy Climate Prescription Letter delivered to World leaders at COP26
THANK YOU to the Global Climate and Health Alliance and ...
Congrats to SF Bay PSR Committee Member Dr. Robin Cooper for officially being recognized as an ally and partner of Climate Psychiatry Alliance
Congrats to SF Bay PSR Committee Member Dr. Robin Cooper ...
Bravo to SF Bay PSR Committee Member Dr. David Bezanson for extraordinary advocacy work
Bravo to SF Bay PSR Committee Member Dr. David Bezanson ...
Bravo to SF Bay PSR Board Member Dr. Michael Martin for his a letter to the editor, “Cows are the Problem,” in the San Francisco Chronicle.
READ his a letter to the editor, "Cows are the ...
SUPPORTED: AB 652 (Friedman) to remove PFAS from children’s toys and products
AB 652 (Friedman) This bill would, on and after July ...
SUPPORTED: SB 47 (Limón) more funds to address hazardous oil wells
SB 47 (Limón) Existing law prohibits CalGEM from spending more ...
SUPPORTED: SB 433 (Allen) will authorize the California Coastal Commission to levy fines
SB 433 (Allen) will authorize the California Coastal Commission to ...
SUPPORTED: AB 1346 (Berman/Gonzalez) will phase out the sale of gas-powered leaf blowers and off-road engines
AB 1346 (Berman/Gonzalez) will phase out the sale of gas-powered ...
SUPPORTED: Setbacks from oil wells
Setbacks from oil wells: After much effort to reincarnate last ...
COP26: Where Do We Go from Here?
NOVEMBER 17, 2021 PSR Member News, Action Updates, ...
Health Professionals and allies in the San Francisco Bay Area Joined the National Day of Action Calling on President Biden to Stop Construction of Line 3 Fossil-Fuel Pipeline!
Health Professionals Say Climate Change is a Health Crisis and ...
CONGRATS to our Youth Health-Activist Awardees: Aude Bouagnon, Jonathan Lu, and Christina (Xiaoxuan) Chen
At our Annual Gala on September 22, 2021, we presented ...
Bravo to Dr. Robin Cooper for her work on climate despair, read more in SF Public Press: Battling Despair Over a New Climate Change Reality
Bravo to Dr. Robin Cooper, SF Bay PSR Environmental committee ...
A shout out to our new and continuing interns! Thank you!
Alma Hernandez coordinates our building electrification community outreach project. Jasmine ...
WATCH this video with SF Bay Board Members Drs. Aude Bouagnon and Jeff Ritterman.
Over 450 doctors from 50 states, Washington DC, and Puerto ...
SF Bay PSR Board Member Dr. Tom Newman is donating the royalties from his book to PSR
SF Bay PSR Board Member Dr. Tom Newman dedicated his ...
Linking Our Movements Against Global Warming and Militarism
SEPTEMBER 8, 2021 PSR Member News, Action Updates, Anti-Nuclear ...
Protest to demand California EPA and the Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) take immediate action to protect environmental justice communities
Protest to demand California EPA and the Department of Toxic ...
BIG NEWS! BAAQMD voted to reduce air pollution and protect community health in the Bay Area!
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District’s Board of Directors ...
Farewell but not goodbye to intern, Sarah Abdelrahman! READ about why she values PSR.
Sarah Abdelrahman has left her internship with us to complete ...
Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Schear who graduated from UCSF in May
Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Schear who graduated from UCSF in ...
Bravo to Dr. Robert Gould for piece in NY TIMES about Daniel Ellsberg’s recent release of documents revealing greater risk of nuclear conflict in 1958 than previously known
Daniel Ellsberg Released More Documents Revealing Risk of Nuclear War ...
Bravo to Dr. Jeff Ritterman for his recent article. San Francisco Marin Medical Society magazine: Combating Medical Racism: The Case for Compulsory Physician Training.
Also, bravo to SF Bay Board Member Dr. Jeff Ritterman ...
SF Bay PSR Board Member Dr. Jeff Ritterman spoke at a press conference to call on the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) board to Pass Rule 6-5
SF Bay PSR Board Member Dr. Jeff Ritterman spoke ...
PSR Committee Member Dr. Lisa Patel co-authored a module for the American Board of Pediatrics on climate change and health.
PSR Committee Member Dr. Lisa Patel and co-author, Dr. Karina ...
SF Bay PSR Members spoke at the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health Annual Meeting in May
SF Bay Board Member Dr. Mary Williams, SF Bay PSR ...
Thank you to CMA for committing to ongoing work on climate health! Congrats to Dr. Robert Gould for his efforts
Congrats to SF Bay PSR Board President, Dr. Robert Gould, ...
How Do We Heal? A Third Reconstruction
June 15, 2021 PSR MEMBER NEWS, ...
PSR’s beloved Dr. James Yamazaki passed away on March 5, 2021, at the age of 104
PSR’s beloved Dr. James Yamazaki passed away on March 5, ...
Congratulations to Dr. Katherine Gundling, SF Bay PSR committee member, for being awarded The Edward A. Dickson Emeritus Professorship Award
Congratulations to Dr. Katherine Gundling, SF Bay PSR committee member, ...
Dr. Aude Bouagnon, SF Bay PSR board member, spoke about the urgent need for the City of San Francisco to address environmental justice issues and health inequities at Bayview Hunter’s Point, SF
On Earth Day, April 22, Dr. Aude Bouagnon, SF Bay ...
Dr. Rohini J. Haar, SF Bay PSR board member, co-authored a paper about the health and social impacts of the 2017/18 California wildfires
Dr. Rohini J. Haar, SF Bay PSR board member, co-authored ...
Dr. Michael Martin, SF Bay board member, presented at Palo Alto 350 on Health Issues Related to Climate Change
Dr. Michael Martin, SF Bay board member, presented at Palo ...
2021 Policy Updates
APRIL 29, 2021 POLICY WATCH, ACTIONS, ...
2021 Policy Focus
MARCH 18, 2021 POLICY WATCH, ACTIONS, EVENTS, READINGS ...
A Roadmap for 2021: Learn, Take Action, Change the World
FEBRUARY 23, 2021 NEWS, COMMITTEE UPDATES, ...
UPDATE: California Building Decarbonization Package: SB 30, SB 31, SB 32 & SB 37
SUPPORTED: California Building Decarbonization Package: SB 30, SB 31, SB ...
SIGNED: letter by Trust for America’s Health. As Congress considers the Administration’s request for additional COVID response funding and looks ahead to recovery, it is vital to strengthen the public health system for the immediate response as well as the long-term
SIGNED: letter by Trust for America’s Health. As Congress considers ...
Health and Medical Organizations Call for Immediate Action to Protect Our Nation’s Health in the Face of the Climate Health Emergency
PSR and 68 health and medical organizations call on the ...
Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Coates and Dr. Mary Williams for their recent publications in the International Journal of Women’s Dermatology: special issue on climate change
Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Coates and Dr. Mary Williams for ...
Dr. Michael J. Martin, SF Bay PSR board member and president-elect of PSR National published in the SF Chronicle: Climate Change Threatens Our Health
The Biden administration has pledged to move quickly to contain ...
Drs. Tova Fuller and Robert Gould on Talk of the Bay’s “No Nukes! Entry into Force of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons” on KSQD
Listen to SF Bay PSR Vice President and President on ...
PASSED!!! San Francisco unanimously voted embrace the UN Treaty on Prohibition on Nuclear Weapons
BRAVO! The San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously PASSED a ...
Farewell to a friend and mentor: H. Jack Geiger, 1925-2020
When I met Jack Geiger in 1987, he was already ...
What’s next? Keeping the Pressure on the New Presidential Administration and the State of California
NOVEMBER 19, 2020 The Biden-Harris Administration ...
SIGNED: Letter to call on health insurers to divest billions from fossil fuels
SIGNED: Letter with 60 health and environmental groups to call ...
Dr. Robert M. Gould, SF Bay PSR president, participated in the webinar: From East Bay to New Mexico, Community Power Against Nuclear Energy
Dr. Robert M. Gould, SF Bay PSR president, participated in ...
United Nations’ Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Ratified by 50th Country and American Public Health Association Adopts Policy Statement Calling for a Nuclear-Free World
Media Alert OCTOBER 24, 2020 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ...
United Nations’ Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Ratified by 50th Country and American Public Health Association Adopts Policy Statement Calling for a Nuclear-Free World GalleryUnited Nations’ Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Ratified by 50th Country and American Public Health Association Adopts Policy Statement Calling for a Nuclear-Free World
Board Member Sarah Schear published in AAP Voices: It’s Time to Wake Up to Threat of Climate Change and to Act
As pediatricians and trainees, we have all experienced moral awakenings ...
Supported: letter from California Certified Organic Farmers
Supported: letter from California Certified Organic Farmers calling for an ...
Signed: letter to VP Pence urging a reversal of the recent CDC COVID guidelines
Signed an organizational sign-on letter coordinated by the Infectious Diseases Society ...
Opposed: the Lawrence Livermore National Lab continued and expanded nuclear weapons activities
Submitted comments at the public hearing about the Lawrence Livermore ...
Signed: CDC Employee Letter to Address Workplace Racism and Discrimination
Signed: CDC Employee Letter to Address Workplace Racism and Discrimination ...
Dr. Robert M. Gould spoke on the Sojourner Truth Radio Show about the health impacts of the wildfires on West Coast communities.
Dr. Robert M. Gould spoke on the Sojourner Truth Radio ...
Dr. Mary Williams presented a CME lecture, “Heat Climate Change & Dermatology” for the Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health.
Dr. Mary Williams presented a CME lecture, "Heat Climate Change ...
Congratulations to Dr. Tom Newman for receiving a 2019-2020 Outstanding Lecture Award from the UCSF School of Medicine for his lecture “The Health Emergency of our Changing Climate.”
Congratulations to Dr. Tom Newman for receiving a 2019-2020 Outstanding ...
The Election: Toward a Green New Deal
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020 Read original newsletter email here. Our ...
Huffington Post: The Beloved Community: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Prescription for a Healthy Society, by Dr. Jeff Ritterman
How is Martin Luther King’s Beloved Community a prescription for ...
Passed: The Good Food Purchasing Standards, San Francisco
Bravo to SF Bay PSR Board member Dr. Tom Newman ...
Signed: Letter to Support AB 345 to California State Senate’s Natural Resources and Water Committee from health professionals in California
Over 600 physicians, nurses and health professionals in California, many ...
Toward a Nuclear-Free World: Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Bombings of Japan
JULY 30, 2020 View original newsletter ...
SF Bay PSR and National PSR support the following policy solutions toward a nuclear-weapons-free world
1. Support the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons ...
Passed with recommendations by SF Bay PSR: Berkeley City Council Resolution
Berkeley City Council, CA, voted on a resolution that will ...
Opposed by SF Bay PSR: Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) Proposed Interpretative Rule on Transfer of Very Low-Level Waste to Exempt Persons for Disposal
This very dangerous and under-the-radar move by the NRC would ...
Endorsed by PSR National: many amendments to National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)
PSR submitted comments to support many of the amendments made ...
Opposed by PSR National: Republican “HEALS Act” to provide an additional $30 billion to the Department of Defense
75 Organizations say NO to GOP Plans to Use COVID-19 ...
Submitted Public Comments: Public Health and Air Quality Professionals Call for an All-Electric Energy Code in the 2022 Building Energy Efficiency Standards (Docket No. 19-BSTD-03)
Public Health and Air Quality Professionals Call for an ...
The effects of climate change on infectious diseases with cutaneous manifestations, by Dr. Sarah Coates
International Journal of Women's Dermatology: Anthropogenic climate change affects the ...
Passed: San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Bans Nuclear from Clean Power Program
After an upsurge of widespread public outcry against a proposed ...
Passed: California Air Resources Board adopted the Advanced Clean Trucks (ACT) Standards
In June 2020, the California Air Resources Board unanimously ...
Balancing public health and private wealth: lessons on climate inaction from the COVID‐19 pandemic, by Dr. Sarah Coates
International Journal of Dermatology: Balancing public health and private ...
Gas stoves making indoor air up to five times dirtier than outdoor air, with quotes by Brady Seals and Robert Gould
Guardian: Gas stoves making indoor air up to five ...
Climate Change, Public Health, and ‘Green Medicine,’ by Dr. Mary Williams
Sonoma Medicine Magazine, page 21: “Climate Change, Public Health, ...
Approving new fracking projects in the middle of a pandemic? Bad idea, by Dr. Amanda Millstein and Dr. Robert Dodge
Island Press, on Medium: “Approving new fracking projects in the ...
Black Lives Matter—Take Action to Address Police Violence
JUNE 3, 2020 View original newsletter email ...
Opposed: The use of Carbon Tetrachloride by submitting public comments to EPA
Opposed the continued use of Carbon Tetrachloride by submitting public ...
Endorsed: SB 1044, to ban the manufacture, distribution, and use of PFAS
Endorsed SB 1044, which bans the manufacture, distribution and use ...
San Jose Mercury News: Letter: End California’s wet markets to help end pandemics, by Dr. David Bezanson
Letter: End California’s wet markets to help end pandemics, by ...
COVID-19: Reframing the Climate Emergency
MAY 4, 2020 View original newsletter email SUPPORTING HEALTH-CARE ...
COVID-19: Reframing Social Justice and Health Inequities
APRIL 6, 2020 View original newsletter email ...