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 ...
SEPTEMBER 8, 2021 PSR Member News, Action Updates, Anti-Nuclear and California Policy Watch, and More At a time when we are daily reminded through spreading drought and wildfires, and extreme weather events, that our climate crisis is here and now, we simply cannot afford to continue to squander our resources for another era of ...
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District’s Board of Directors voted on July 21 to further reduce particulate matter emissions from petroleum refineries with a yes vote for Regulation 6, Rule 5: Particulate Emissions from Refinery Fluidized Catalytic Cracking Units. The rule is now the most health-protective and stringent regulation of its kind in the ...
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 ...
MARCH 18, 2021 POLICY WATCH, ACTIONS, EVENTS, 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 at the heart of our ...
FEBRUARY 23, 2021 NEWS, COMMITTEE UPDATES, POLICY WATCH, EVENTS Well, our new year is off to a tumultuous start! An insurrection against our most fundamental liberties followed by the inauguration of our duly-elected President. The momentous entry-into-force of the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, and the welcome ...
NOVEMBER 19, 2020 The Biden-Harris Administration brings opportunities to advocate for “Green New Deal” policies and regulations that will fight the climate crisis and its negative health impacts, address systemic racism and environmental injustice, and redirect government spending away from nuclear weapons and toward health care for all and a green ...
OCTOBER 24, 2020 History was made on October 24, 2020, when Honduras ratified the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Now with 50 ratifications, the Treaty will enter-into-force in 90 days, becoming legally binding for countries that have joined the treaty, most likely on January 22, 2021, two ...
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020 Read original newsletter email here. Our thoughts are with all those affected by the wildfires on the West Coast. As we move toward the precipice of the presidential election, we must set our sights on a Green New Deal. In this newsletter, we review the main goals a GND could ...
