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Welcome to Greater Boston PSR

GBPSR has over 1000 members in Eastern Massachusetts who individually and collectively work on a variety of issues relating to health, including quality and access to health care, environmental pollution, militarism and war, community and personal violence, and social justice and human rights.

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Health & Environment Projects
GBPSR works to educate the medical community, policy makers, and the public about the health consequences of a range of environmental factors.
Health, Peace & Security Projects
GBPSR works for nuclear weapon non-proliferation, educates on the health effects of war, and advocates for global disarmament.

Campaign Updates

Campaign Update
Press Release: Greater Boston PSR Challenges State’s Health Impact Assessment
In response to the Health Impact Assessment (HIA) released in early January 2019 by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health of the proposed...
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Greater Boston PSR Letter to Mass DEP on Air-Quality Monitoring in the Fore River Basin
Greater Boston PSR Board Chair Dr. Matthew Bivens sent this letter to the Massachusetts Department of Health Air Assessment Branch asking for additional air-quality monitoring in the Fore River Basin....
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Back from the Brink: A Call to Prevent Nuclear War
PSR and a coalition of national and local organizations, faith-based groups, and local municipalities have all signed on to the “Back from the Brink” resolution, calling on the U.S. to...
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Greater Boston PSR Speakers’ Bureau
GBPSR has established a “Speakers’ Bureau” of members willing and able to go address community groups, schools, and others about these crucially important issues. See the list of available speakers...
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Fore River residents raise questions about compressor station study
The Patriot Ledger Glenn Keith, a deputy director with the state Department of Environmental Protection, said Thursday night that the current levels of volatile organic compounds in the air in...
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GBPSR Letter on Proposed Natural Gas Compressor Station in Weymouth, MA
Greater Boston PSR’s Steering Committee sent this letter to the Massachusetts Department of Health regarding the health impact assessment for the Weymouth Natural Gas Compressor Station.
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