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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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GBPSR / IPPNW Event

Longwood Symphony Orchestra’s 2019 Healing Art of Music Concert

October 5, 2019
5:30 pm Reception | 8:00 pm Concert
New England Conservatory, Boston

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Campaign Updates

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GBPSR letter to Governor Baker
Greater Boston PSR sent this letter to Governor Charlie Baker on the proposed siting of compressor station in Weymouth, stating that the compressor station would pose an immediate threat to...
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Important Court Victory Against Fracking
Physicians for Social Responsibility and fellow plaintiffs just won a landmark victory for climate and health as a federal judge rejected the leasing of public lands for fracking and ordered...
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GBPSR issues report in response to January 2019 health impact assessment (HIA) for proposed compressor station in Weymouth, MA
In this report, Greater Boston PSR details our concerns regarding the emergency response hazards and potential health impacts of a proposed compressor station in Weymouth, Massachusetts, and we call on...
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Climate Change Is A Public Health Emergency, Doctor Says. Here’s How To Respond.
NPR On Point interview with Dr. Regina LaRocque of Greater Boston PSR on the New England Journal of Medicine article authored by Dr. LaRocque and Dr. Caren Solomon.
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Climate Change — A Health Emergency
In this New England Journal of Medicine article, Drs. Caren G. Solomon and Regina C. LaRoque, Greater Boston PSR members, write about the challenge the world faces from climate change...
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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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Greater Boston PSR Opposes Dangerous New Methane (“Natural Gas”) Infrastructure Plans
As physicians concerned about the twin man-made threats to human survival—climate change and nuclear weapons—Greater Boston PSR would generally oppose major infrastructure that locks our energy system more firmly into...
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In Weymouth, echoes of Flint
Boston Globe article on the opposition to the Weymouth compressor station.
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Compressor Station Permit Based On Incomplete Air Tests, State Admits
WBUR - Last year, the Department of Environmental Protection sent air samples from the site of a proposed natural gas compressor station to a private laboratory and asked scientists to...
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DEP threatened with sanctions, ordered to produce emails
The Department of Environmental Protection faces possible sanctions and has been ordered by a hearing officer to provide all email messages sent and received last week in connection with air...
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