Bravo to SF Bay PSR Board member Dr. Tom Newman for his work on the Good Food Purchasing Standards in San Francisco. The San Francisco Sheriff’s Office and the Department of Public Health will start aligning their food purchasing practices with standards aimed at improving the environment and the health and well-being of those who ...

Over 600 physicians, nurses and health professionals in California, many of whom are currently frontline health care workers throughout our state sent a letter supporting AB345. We have seen first hand the ways in which oil and gas drilling harms the health of our patients. While we understand that the California Geologic Energy Management Division ...

1. Support the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Cosponsor H.R. 302 — Embracing the goals and provisions of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. 2. Continue the U.S. moratorium on nuclear testing Cosponsor H.R.7140 /  S.3886 — PLANET Act, to prohibit the use of funds for an explosive nuclear weapons test. ...

Berkeley City Council, CA, voted on a resolution that will be sent to Congressmember Barbara Lee and to Senators Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris. On the 75th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the City of Berkeley calls on the President and Congress to step back from the brink and to ...

This very dangerous and under-the-radar move by the NRC would allow massive volumes of radioactive waste to be discarded in regular landfills. The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), the Committee to Bridge the Gap (CBG), Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles (PSR-LA), and San Francisco Bay Physicians for Social Responsibility (SF Bay PSR) wrote collectively to ...

PSR submitted comments to support many of the amendments made as part of the rule on H.R. 6395, the FY 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). However, only a small number of amendments are likely to receive roll-call votes. We recommended a YES on the following votes: 1. Floor 9, H. Amdt. 526 (Pocan) to ...

75 Organizations say NO to GOP Plans to Use COVID-19 Relief Money for Weapons of War PSR strongly opposes the proposal in the Republican “HEALS Act” to provide an additional $30 billion to the Department of Defense and urges Congress to continue to provide urgent and vital relief to the people of the United States ...

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) As a group of public health and air quality professionals, we appreciate the opportunity to comment on the California Energy Commission’s (CEC) 2022 Building Energy Efficiency Standards. Exposure to air pollution is ...

After an upsurge of widespread public outcry against a proposed nuclear power deal with PG&E, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) unanimously passed a resolution which bans all purchase or exchange of nuclear energy in the City's flagship CleanPowerSF program. July 15, 2020  

In June 2020, the California Air Resources Board unanimously adopted the landmark Advanced Clean Trucks (ACT) rule that supports increasing levels of zero emission technologies across the truck fleet in California between 2024 and 2035. The proposal will generate deep reductions in harmful pollutants, yield significant health benefits in California and beyond, and especially ...