By Alma Hernandez, B.A., Building Electrification SF Bay PSR Intern AUGUST 2022 Background Building electrification (BE) is the shift toward zero-carbon electricity, which would be not only beneficial for the planet but also for public health and safety. Gas stoves emit hazardous gasses that harm the health of people and contribute to the development of ...
This project was made possible with generous funding from the Resources Legacy Fund. In support of a residential-grade cleanup of the AstraZeneca toxic waste site on Richmond’s southeast shoreline, the SF Bay Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility and Richmond Shoreline Alliance (RSA) are undertaking a community engagement and capacity-building process called the Healthy Environment Project. The goal of ...
SF Bay PSR is alarmed by the Supreme Court’s recent ruling in West Virginia v. EPA that greatly undermines the EPA’s ability to regulate industrial chemicals and greenhouse gas emissions to protect the health of the environment and people. SF Bay PSR agrees with the dissenting justices that Congress granted EPA clear authority to regulate ...
April 22, 2022 Dear Friend, Over the last two weeks we wrote to you about the recent UN’s climate report and the California legislature’s recently released report on climate change impacts across our state. Both warn that we have no time left, but we do have the solutions to address the climate crisis. However, these ...
April 19, 2022 Dear Friends, Last week we wrote to you about the recent UN’s climate report. This week we want to make sure you saw the California legislature’s recently released report on climate change impacts across our state. It warns of worsening fires, floods, economic disruption, and health harms. Like the UN report, ...
April 12, 2022 Dear Friends, You probably saw the United Nation’s climate report released last week on April 4, 2022. While the report warns us that we have vanishing time to avert a climate disaster—it confirms that we have the solutions within our grasp. However, these solutions are not being implemented because the fossil fuel ...
MARCH 8, 2022 NEWS, STAFF & INTERN UPDATES, EVENTS & MORE Once again, the new year is off to a tumultuous start. As our hearts go out to the people of Ukraine, we painfully watch our world in crisis on multiple fronts: Russia invaded Ukraine and threatened to use nuclear weapons; the United Nations’ ...
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 ...
June 15, 2021 PSR MEMBER NEWS, ANTI-NUCLEAR AND CALIFORNIA POLICY WATCH, AND MORE How do we heal? At SF Bay PSR we are constantly asking this question as we look through a public-health lens at our intertwined core issues: the environment, climate, racial and social injustice, and nuclear weapons abolition. We ...
APRIL 29, 2021 POLICY WATCH, ACTIONS, EVENTS, PSR MEMBERS NEWS, READINGS & RESOURCES, AND MORE SF Bay PSR goes beyond policy advocacy with a diverse array of projects designed to nurture a paradigm shift in the way we as a society approach the environment, health, and security. However, policy advocacy is ...
