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Climate Emergency: Feedback Loops
Everyone has heard about global warming, but few understand how environmental feedback loops amplify the warming even further. With...

Tonyehn Verkitus
Mar 29, 20223 min read


Announcing OCAREER Certificate Program
Physicians for Social Responsibility Pennsylvania has developed a certificate to assist practitioners in assessing how climate change is...

Tonyehn Verkitus
Mar 28, 20222 min read


Sign-on Letter: Mid-Atlantic Alliance for Climate and HealthUpdated
As leaders and members of health professional and environmental organizations in Delaware, South Jersey, and Southeastern Pennsylvania,...

Tonyehn Verkitus
Mar 2, 20224 min read


Comments on Draft Regulations Addressing Importation / Exportation of Water, Wastewater in the Basin
The Steering Committee of the Concerned Health Professionals of Pennsylvania (CHP PA), an advocacy group concerned about the...

Tonyehn Verkitus
Mar 1, 20224 min read


WASTE NOT, WANT NOT
The scale and range of human activities that harm the environment and human health are vast, and many of the most damaging require...

Tonyehn Verkitus
Feb 23, 20223 min read


Nothing 'green' about Nacero plant
Originally Published in the Citizen's Voice 2/1/2022 Editor: The proposed methane-to-gasoline refinery is a false solution to our need to...

Tonyehn Verkitus
Feb 8, 20222 min read


Mid-Atlantic Alliance on Climate and Health
There are many people and organizations passionate about and working on environmental and climate change issues. The public now generally...

Tonyehn Verkitus
Jan 28, 20223 min read


Nacero plant would endanger residents' health, property values and quality of life
Unlike previously published articles, The Citizens’ Voice published a more critical view of the plans for the $6 billion dollar gasoline...

Tonyehn Verkitus
Jan 12, 20223 min read


Air Pollution Warning
Some people living and working just a few miles southeast of downtown Pittsburgh found it difficult to breathe yesterday: An Air...

Tonyehn Verkitus
Dec 23, 20214 min read


2021 Year in Review
As we wrap up 2021 and my first year as executive director, I find myself proud of all that our team has accomplished, the path we are...

Tonyehn Verkitus
Dec 14, 20213 min read


Climate Change Is Scaring Kids
You may be surprised to learn that climate denial isn’t really a thing in the United States anymore. Sure, there are a few people living...

Tonyehn Verkitus
Nov 19, 20214 min read


PSR PA Comments on EPA Draft Strategic Plan
Physicians for Social Responsibility Pennsylvania (PSR PA) promotes social responsibility by protecting health, the environment and...

Tonyehn Verkitus
Nov 18, 20212 min read


Physicians for Social Responsibility Pennsylvania (PSR PA) applauds Governor Wolf
Philadelphia, PA - Physicians for Social Responsibility Pennsylvania (PSR PA) applauds Governor Wolf for his formal order supporting and...

Tonyehn Verkitus
Nov 2, 20211 min read


Women Share Views on Climate Change for Drexel's Academy of Natural Sciences
Inspired by the book All We Can Save, a celebration of the feminist climate renaissance, 15 local women, including PSR PA Executive...

Tonyehn Verkitus
Oct 27, 20211 min read


Climate and Health
The World Health Organization states that climate change is “the greatest health challenge of the 21st century.” The pope has called...

Tonyehn Verkitus
Oct 27, 20213 min read


Cradle to Grave: The Reverberating Health Hazards of Oil and Gas Industry
PSR PA is excited to share a virtual, half-day conference on a very important issue. The event, Cradle to Grave: The Reverberating Health...

Tonyehn Verkitus
Sep 23, 20212 min read


PA Local Leaders Call for Build Back Better Budget (BBBB), an Energy & Environmental Justice Bill
From raging wildfires in the West to historic “100-year floods” in the East, the extreme weather events of this summer have offered us a...

Tonyehn Verkitus
Sep 7, 20212 min read


PA Department of Health Visits Communities and Families Impacted by Shale Gas Development
On July 27, the Pennsylvania Department of Health (DOH) visited communities and people impacted by shale gas development (fracking) in...

Tonyehn Verkitus
Aug 5, 20214 min read


Interview with Dusty Horwitt on PFAS Precursors in Oil and Gas Extraction
After Physicians for Social Responsibility released Fracking with Forever Chemicals and hosted the informative webinar Exposé on Use in...

Tonyehn Verkitus
Jul 27, 20214 min read


Meeting 4 with PA DOH - An Unaccounted For $1.4 Million
PSR PA Medical Advocacy Director Tammy Murphy and colleagues met with the PA DOH for a fourth time. These meetings have centered on two...

Tonyehn Verkitus
Jun 18, 20211 min read
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