Air pollution from burning oil, gas, and coal kills between 5 and 8 million people a year worldwide and harms many many more through illnesses like heart attacks, strokes, lung diseases, neurodegenerative diseases and cancer. The same fossil fuels also release the greenhouse gases . . .

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Right now, our state’s Public Service Commission is considering permitting a fossil gas power plant in Harford County. This plant would likely put many of our state’s climate emissions goals out of reach, would cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars, and would be slower . . .

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Chesapeake PSR is overjoyed that after steadfast advocacy from Maryland residents, the Maryland General Assembly has overridden a veto of the RENEW (Responding to Emergency Needs From Extreme Weather) Act. We're also overjoyed about the overrides . . .

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Right now, hundreds of counties around the country have regulations on pesticides that go beyond federal regulations, and include extra protections for schools, parks, drinking water supplies, and workers.

Congress is currently considering legislation to strip county governments . . .

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🎉 BIG NEWS FROM CAPITOL HILL:

Thank you Senator Alsobrooks @alsobrooks.senate.gov for signing S. Res. 323 about preventing nuclear war!

And thank you Senator Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov for being an original sponsor!

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In 1980, the American Petroleum Institute, the main organization of oil industry leaders in the US, invited a Stanford scientist to share a private report with them about the latest climate science. The scientist predicted that if we continued to burn oil, coal, and gas . . .

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Join us at a virtual rally for the Transportation and Climate Alignment Act on Thursday, November 20th from 7:30-8:30 PM!

RSVP TODAY! bit.ly/tcakickoff

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Chesapeake Physicians for Social Responsibility joins International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and Physicians for Social Responsibility nationally in denouncing President Trump’s recent announcement of his intention to resume nuclear weapons testing.

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🚨Tell Congress: Prevent a Dangerous New Nuclear Arms Race 🚨 Eighty years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the threat of nuclear weapons use is once again rising. The last remaining arms control treaty between the United States and Russia—the New START agreement—will expire...
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Earlier this month, delegates from our umbrella organization, Physicians for Social Responsibility, attended the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War 24th World Congress in Nagasaki, Japan. Nagasaki was the last city to be bombed by a nuclear weapon . . .

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“As former U.S. surgeons general appointed by every Republican and Democratic president since George H.W. Bush, we have collectively spent decades in service as the Nation's Doctor. We took two sacred oaths in our lifetimes: first, as physicians who swore to care for our patients and, . . .

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Did you know that before the Trump administration’s cuts this year, the US government spent about 1% of its budget on foreign aid? (pewrsr.ch/473xvcs)

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Israel, the United States and Iran, Russia and Ukraine, India and Pakistan, China and Taiwan. Wars and global tensions abound involving nuclear-armed nations. If there ever was a moment to step back from the nuclear brink, now is it.

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The climate crisis is causing harm every single day in Maryland, and we – Maryland residents – are paying for the climate disasters that the leaders of oil, gas, and coal companies caused. As we work to ban fossil fuels, which are the major source of greenhouse gases and deadly pollution . . .

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The federal ADVANCE Act of 2024, which promotes nuclear power, is a step in the wrong direction. Among other things, the law orders the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to "streamline" licensing of small modular nuclear reactors, potentially making us less safe.

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According to the editors-in-chief of The Lancet, the BMJ, and other leading medical journals, nuclear weapons are “the most acute existential threat to humankind and planetary health” and “the risk of nuclear war is widely assessed to be greater than ever,” but there’s a way out of this danger.

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The climate crisis is harming our health every single day in Maryland, from heat waves to sea level rise to extreme weather events. To add insult to injury, Marylanders are effectively paying a climate tax . . .

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