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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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September 25 Virtual Concert and Presentation

In honor our co-founder, Dr. Bernard Lown, and featuring cellist Yo-Yo Ma in addition to a performance by a quartet from the Longwood Symphony Orchestra
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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
Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility Calls for Immediate Halt to Operations and Legislative Review of Weymouth Compressor Station
Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility (GBPSR) calls for an immediate halt to operations at the Weymouth Compressor Station and a legislative review of the serious safety and health issues...
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Climate News
Stop the Enbridge Ecocide!
The Nation - From Minnesota to Massachusetts, the Canadian pipeline company is engaged in crimes against humanity and the earth—abetted by state power.
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Nuclear News
Nuclear Weapons Have Always Been Illegal; It’s Long Past Time to Abolish Them
In Depth News - July 8, 2021, marks the 25th anniversary of the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ’s) Advisory Opinion on the legal status of nuclear weapons.
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Climate News
No justification for proposed Peabody gas plant
CommonWealth - The gas industry and pro-gas organizations have been quick to blame renewable energy and clean technology as the leading cause of the Texas energy disaster. But the reality...
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In the News

Climate News
Enough Is Enough. It’s Time To Shut Down The Weymouth Compressor
Written by Greater Boston PSR members Dr. Caren Solomon and Dr. Philip Landrigan
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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
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