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Welcome to Greater Boston PSR:

We are a group of over 1,300 health professionals and community members in Massachusetts whose mission is to raise public awareness about the two existential threats to human health: nuclear war and climate change.

OUR GOALS:

  • To inform the public and policy makers of the human health impacts of climate change and nuclear weapons
  • To promote local, state and federal action on these issues
  • To build coalitions with like minded groups to amplify this message

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Change for Good

Letter from the Chair: Remembering GBPSR Founder Dr. Bernard Lown: 1921-2021


Dr. Bernard Lown discusses the preventable loss of life and destruction from the Merrimack Valley gas explosions in 2018. “We have the wrong priorities,” he said.

Campaign Updates

Campaign Update
Back From the Brink
Join health advocates all across the US by endorsing the Back from the Brink. Abolishing nuclear weapons has been a core goal of PSR since our founding in 1961.
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Campaign Update
COVID and Nuclear War
GB PSR Board member Kea van der Ziel and colleagues from MIT write about the US failure to adequately fund the COVID epidemic while spending billions this year on nuclear...
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Campaign Update
COVID and Climate Change
GB PSR member Dr. Phil Landrigan writes about health equity, COVID and climate change, in this issue of the Lancet, “COVID-19 and clean air: an opportunity for radical change.”
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Campaign Update
Informing Public Opinion
The health consequences of fossil fuel driven climate change are real. Drs. Philip Landrigan, Howard Frumkin and Brita Lundberg recommend simple interventions that can be taken now to save lives...
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Climate News
Why A Federal Order In The Weymouth Compressor Case Has The Natural Gas World Worried
Article from Earthwhile/WBUR citing GBPSR's opposition to the compressor station in Weymouth.
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Climate News
The False Promise of Natural Gas
Article in The New England Journal of Medicine by Greater Boston PSR's Philip J. Landrigan, MD, Howard Frumkin, MD, DrPH, and Brita E. Lundberg, MD.
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Climate News
Letter to Gov. Baker on Springfield Biomass Incinerator
Letter to Governor Charlie Baker from GBPSR Chair of the Board Brita Lundberg, MD, asking him to withdraw a proposal to allow biomass incinerators to qualify for renewable energy subsidies...
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In the News

Climate News
Why A Federal Order In The Weymouth Compressor Case Has The Natural Gas World Worried
Article from Earthwhile/WBUR citing GBPSR's opposition to the compressor station in Weymouth.
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Climate News
The False Promise of Natural Gas
Article in The New England Journal of Medicine by Greater Boston PSR's Philip J. Landrigan, MD, Howard Frumkin, MD, DrPH, and Brita E. Lundberg, MD.
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Climate News
Not Just Another Pipeline
New York Times - The expansion of Enbridge's Line 3 pipeline is a breathtaking betrayal of Minnesota's Indigenous communities — and the environment.
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Climate News
Roxbury Fights For Its Trees
In this radio piece from WGBH News, hear from GBPSR board member Dr. Brita Lundberg and others about how actions that address urban heat islands are invariably anti-racist.
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COVID-19: LEARN MORE ABOUT LINKS BETWEEN COVID-19 AND CLIMATE CHANGE