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    Calling All Healthcare Providers for Pennsylvania Climate Convergence
    Tammy Murphy
    • 2 days ago
    • 2 min

    Calling All Healthcare Providers for Pennsylvania Climate Convergence

    CALLING ALL HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS!!! We are facing a climate emergency with devastating health consequences. Healthcare providers are...
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    WASTE NOT, WANT NOT
    Sidney Kahn, MD, PhD
    • May 12
    • 4 min

    WASTE NOT, WANT NOT

    While the most environmentally and health damaging activities require major political, economic, and societal changes, individuals'...
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    Native plants and other more natural gardening
    Ed Wrenn, MD
    • Apr 27
    • 4 min

    Native plants and other more natural gardening

    Under-appreciated opportunities in public health, environmentalism and happiness. I am writing this because I have found a fascinating...
    39 views
    PSR PA Collaborator Walks 40 Miles Against Vanguard’s Destructive Investments
    Linnea Bond
    • Apr 8
    • 3 min

    PSR PA Collaborator Walks 40 Miles Against Vanguard’s Destructive Investments

    On April 18, Earth Quaker Action Team (EQAT), who partnered with PSR PA on the Clean Energy and Health Virtual Conference in September...
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    Bucks County must band together to ‘Ban the Bomb’
    Cyril Mychalejko
    • Mar 30
    • 3 min

    Bucks County must band together to ‘Ban the Bomb’

    Nobody wins a nuclear war. That’s why the moment we find ourselves in now with Russia's invasion of Ukraine serves as a stark reminder...
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    Climate Emergency: Feedback Loops
    Tonyehn Verkitus and Bonnie Waltch
    • Mar 29
    • 3 min

    Climate Emergency: Feedback Loops

    Everyone has heard about global warming, but few understand how environmental feedback loops amplify the warming even further. With...
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    Announcing OCAREER Certificate Program
    Julie Becker, MA, PhD, MPH
    • Mar 28
    • 2 min

    Announcing OCAREER Certificate Program

    Physicians for Social Responsibility Pennsylvania has developed a certificate to assist practitioners in assessing how climate change is...
    53 views
    Sign-on Letter: Mid-Atlantic Alliance for Climate and HealthUpdated
    Mid-Atlantic Alliance for Climate and Health
    • Mar 2
    • 3 min

    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,...
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    Comments on Draft Regulations Addressing Importation / Exportation of Water, Wastewater in the Basin
    CHP PA and PSR PA
    • Mar 1
    • 4 min

    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...
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    WASTE NOT, WANT NOT
    Sidney Kahn, MD, PhD
    • Feb 23
    • 3 min

    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...
    52 views
    Nothing 'green' about Nacero plant
    TONYEHN VERKITUS / BARBARA W. BRANDOM, M.D.
    • Feb 8
    • 2 min

    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...
    58 views
    Mid-Atlantic Alliance on Climate and Health
    Alan Greenglass, MD
    • Jan 28
    • 3 min

    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...
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    Nacero plant would endanger residents' health, property values and quality of life
    TONYEHN VERKITUS / BARBARA W. BRANDOM, M.D.
    • Jan 12
    • 3 min

    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...
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    Air Pollution Warning
    Ned Ketyer, MD
    • Dec 23, 2021
    • 4 min

    Air Pollution Warning

    Some people living and working just a few miles southeast of downtown Pittsburgh found it difficult to breathe yesterday: An Air...
    16 views
    2021 Year in Review
    Tonyehn Verkitus
    • Dec 14, 2021
    • 2 min

    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...
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    Climate Change Is Scaring Kids
    Ned Ketyer, MD
    • Nov 19, 2021
    • 4 min

    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...
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    PSR PA Comments on EPA Draft Strategic Plan
    Steph Lee and Katherine Crowe
    • Nov 18, 2021
    • 2 min

    PSR PA Comments on EPA Draft Strategic Plan

    Physicians for Social Responsibility Pennsylvania (PSR PA) promotes social responsibility by protecting health, the environment and...
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    Physicians for Social Responsibility Pennsylvania (PSR PA) applauds Governor Wolf
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    • Nov 2, 2021
    • 1 min

    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...
    9 views1 comment
    Women Share Views on Climate Change for Drexel's Academy of Natural Sciences
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    • Oct 27, 2021
    • 1 min

    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...
    6 views1 comment
    Climate and Health
    Alan S. Peterson, M.D.
    • Oct 27, 2021
    • 3 min

    Climate and Health

    The World Health Organization states that climate change is “the greatest health challenge of the 21st century.” The pope has called...
    24 views1 comment
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