Readings & Resources

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 ...

Common Dreams: ‘This Is Huge’: Schumer Commits to Creating Civilian Climate Corps

Labor-Backed Report on Path to Equitable Green California

Volts: Rooftop solar and home batteries make a clean grid vastly more affordable Distributed energy is not an alternative to big power plants, but a complement.

Phys.org: UN draft climate report: Impacts on people

Report: Blocking Rooftop Solar The companies, lobbyists and front groups undermining local clean energy

PV Magazine: The electric utility anti-rooftop solar playbook

Othering & Belonging Institute: The Roots of Structural Racism Project

NY Times: What Technology Could Reduce Heat Deaths? Trees.

UnEarthed: Inside Exxon’s playbook: How America’s biggest oil company continues to oppose action on climate change

The Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health New Report

Science Daily: Childhood air pollution exposure linked to poor mental health at age 18 Risk factor is equivalent to lead exposure, study finds

ProPublica: The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax

The Intercept: In an exclusive interview, Ellsberg explains why he hopes the courts take on the law used to crack down on whistleblowers

NY Times: The Risk of Nuclear War with China

NY Times: Risk of Nuclear War Over Taiwan in 1958 Said to Be Greater Than Publicly Known

KQED: Air Regulators Weigh Plan Aimed at Dramatically Cutting Bay Area Refinery Pollution

NY Times: The U.S. Has a New Climate Goal. How Does It Stack Up Globally?

The Guardian: How US chemical industry lobbying and cash defeated regulation in Trump era

African American Policy Forum: Truth Be Told Campaign

The Nation: Julian Aguon’s Poetic Riposte to American Empire The CHamoru lawyer discusses the militarization of Guam and his new book, The Properties of Perpetual Light.

The Bold Italic: This Climate Crisis Campaign Highlights How a Warming Planet Affects Exploited Communities

The Bulletin: Memorial Days: the racial underpinnings of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings

NY Times: Good morning. Derek Chauvin, convicted of second-degree murder, is the exception of exceptions.

Guardian: Derek Chauvin found guilty of George Floyd’s murder

1 A Radio Show: How Policing Works in the Suburbs

Washington Post: Being Black in America is Exhausting

NRDC: Air Pollution 101: Our Health and Climate at Risk

Yale News: Yale creates new principles for divestment from fossil fuels

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: We need a Green New Deal for Nuclear Weapons

The Nation: When talking about climate change, we can’t forget about nuclear weapons

The World Future Council: Report on the linkages between climate change and nuclear security

Beyond Nuclear International: New Talking Points lay out key messages against nuclear power

Common Dreams: Khanna Criticizes Biden for Proposing Pentagon Budget Larger Than Trump’s

NY TIMES: Biden’s Recovery Plan Bets Big on Clean Energy

NPR: Ocasio-Cortez Sees Green New Deal Progress In Biden Plan, But ‘It’s Not Enough’

CDC: Racism is a Serious Threat to the Public’s Health

The Lancet: Racism is the public health crisis

PSR National: Stop the Money-Pit Missile

Guardian: Lost on the Frontlines Memorial: 3607 US healthcare worker deaths from COVID-19

Guardian: Exclusive: EPA reverses Trump stance in push to tackle environmental racism

Guardian: Democrats call for $1bn shift from weapons of mass destruction to ‘vaccine of mass prevention’

American Journal of Public Health: Critical Race Theory, Race Equity, and Public Health: Toward Antiracism Praxis

Beyond Nuclear International: Why Bill Gates is Wrong (about nuclear energy)

Rutgers: Rutgers to Divest from Fossil Fuels

Moruroa Files: Investigation into French Nuclear Tests in the Pacific

NY Times: Declare Racism a Public Health Emergency

New Yorker: The Shift to Renewable Energy Can Give More Power to the People

NY Times: Black People Need Better Vaccine Access, Not Better Vaccine Attitudes

NEJM: How Structural Racism Works—Racist Policies as a Root Cause of U.S. Racial Health Inequities

New Yorker: When the Kids Started Getting Sick: Is fracking causing a cancer cluster in children?

Journal of Climate Change and Health: Necessity and implementation of climate and health education for medical students and physicians

Columbia: Lancet Report: Public policy and health in the Trump era

The Experts Speak: Listen to Dr. Robert Gould, SF Bay PSR president, speak on the nuclear threat to our environmental, health, and communities

Huffington Post: UN Human Rights Experts Say Environmental Racism In Louisiana’s Cancer Alley Must End

NY Times: What This Wave of Anti-Asian Violence Reveals About America

WATCH: International Updates on Nuclear Disarmament by Campaign for Peace Disarmament & Common Security

LA Times: How the U.S. betrayed the Marshall Islands, kindling the next nuclear disaster

NY Times, Ezra Klein podcast: The Texas Crisis Could Become Everyone’s Crisis

NY Times: Texas Is a Rich State in a Rich Country, and Look What Happened

Yale Climate Connections: Climate lessons from Texas’ frozen power outages

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 ...

The Asia-Pacific Journal: Will the Nuclear Powers Ever Be Willing to Forgo Their Nuclear Weapons?

Quincy Institute: WATCH: How Biden can end the war in Yemen: A new U.S. approach

Washington Post: United States extends nuclear treaty with Russia for five years

Harvard: Deaths from fossil fuel emissions higher than previously thought

PHN: The intersection of climate change with the era of COVID‐19

White House FACT SHEET: President Biden Takes Executive Actions to Tackle the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad, Create Jobs, and Restore Scientific Integrity Across Federal Government

On January 27, 2021, President Biden will take executive action ...

KQED Forum: What Biden’s Climate Plan Could Mean for California

POLITICO: Biden to seek full 5-year extension of nuclear pact with Russia

Trump rolled back more than 125 environmental safeguards. Here’s how.

Washington Post: All 10 living former defense secretaries: Involving the military in election disputes would cross into dangerous territory

Huffington Post: Surgeon General: Black Americans’ Distrust In Vaccine Comes From History Of Medical Racism

Center for Public Integrity: Under Trump, the nuclear weapons industry has boomed

Atomic Pulse: Nuclear Weapons as a Public Health Issue: APHA Calls on Governments to Mitigate Harm, Work Toward Disarmament

DESMOG: Trump Administration Targets Banks Divesting From Fossil Fuels In New Anti-Climate Rule

American Medical Association: Racism is a threat to public health

UCSF PRHE: Recommendations to Strengthen EPA and its Mission to Protect Public Health

Scientific American: An Open Letter to Joe Biden You must rebuild public trust in the scientific impartiality of the EPA, the DOE and other agencies

NY Times: 9 Things the Biden Administration Could Do Quickly on the Environment

Los Angeles Times: Five things Joe Biden can do to fight climate change — without Congress’ help

Union of Concerned Scientists: The Racist History of Race Science

Panelists discuss Hunters Point history, radioactivity, and future for Bayview engagement

NEJM: Hidden in Plain Sight — Reconsidering the Use of Race Correction in Clinical Algorithms

Dr. Robert Gould is quoted: Washington Post: California fires cause parts of the U.S. to have some of dirtiest air in the world

Guardian: You have pesticides in your body. But an organic diet can reduce them by 70%

Vox: Air pollution is much worse than we thought: Ditching fossil fuels would pay for itself through clean air alone.

San Jose Inside: Op-Ed: War May End in Yemen, But It Now Faces a Public Health Crisis of Pandemic Proportions

Yemeni Alliance Committee: Media Toolkit: What can YOU do to help END U.S. support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen?

CBS News: Virtual Lawrence Livermore Lab Protest Held on 75th Anniversary of Hiroshima Bombing

Environmental Health Perspectives: Environmental Racism Collection: Exposure and Health Inequities in Black Americans

Common Dreams: The Lessons We Still Haven’t Learned From Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Slate: Sleepwalking Into the Atomic Age

Common Dreams: Dropping Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Was Unnecessary

Reuters: Japan set to mark 75 years since Hiroshima, Nagasaki atomic bombing

Guardian: UK lobbies US to support controversial new nuclear warheads

The Nation: We Must Resist the ‘China Threat Syndrome’

The Washington Post: Trump administration discussed conducting first U.S. nuclear test in decades

NEJM: Beyond a Moment — Reckoning with Our History and Embracing Antiracism in Medicine

NPR: CDC Employees Call Out Agency’s ‘Toxic Culture Of Racial Aggressions’

New Yorker: What Joe Biden’s Climate Plan Really Signals

Guardian: Joe Biden unveils aggressive $2tn climate and jobs plan

New York Times: About 5.4 million Americans lost health insurance in the pandemic, more than have ever lost coverage through job losses in a year, an analysis found.

New York Times: The Trump Administration Is Reversing 100 Environmental Rules. Here’s the Full List.

Politico: Democrats unveil sweeping plan to tackle climate change

The National Academy of Medicine offers Resources to Support the Health and Well-Being of Clinicians During COVID-19

New York Times: Links Between Racism and the Environment

Guardian: World nuclear arms spending hit $73bn last year – half of it by US

New Yorker: Bill McKibben’s Annals of a Warming Planet series

Sojourners: For Our White Friends Desiring to Be Allies

Guardian: Black Americans dying of Covid-19 at three times the rate of white people

DNC Environment and Climate Crisis Council:  Fighting for Health, Resilience and Truth in the Face of COVID-19 and Climate Change

Guardian: US critics of stay-at-home orders tied to fossil fuel funding

Monthly Review: COVID-19 and Circuits of Capital

The BMJ Opinion: The human cost of sanctions—covid-19 and beyond

SF Gate: SF’s COVID-19 case data by ZIP code reveals hardest-hit neighborhoods

San Francisco Chronicle: Latinos’ coronavirus burden