Next Generation: Taking a Stand Against Nuclear War
Column in Brigham Clinical & Research News by Greater Boston PSR member Joseph G. Hodgkin, MD, a second-year Internal Medicine resident.
Massachusetts Medical Society resolution recognizes health link between gas cooking and asthma
The Massachusetts Medical Society approved the resolution on December 7, 2019 recognizing the association between the use of gas stoves, indoor nitrogen dioxide levels, and asthma.
Open Letter on Paris Climate Agreement
Open letter to President Donald J. Trump from PSR and partner groups, asking him to make a New Year’s resolution to return to the Paris agreement.
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.
New Report from GBPSR: Weymouth Project Is Dangerous to Human Health
Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility has released its third comprehensive report regarding a 7,700-horsepower natural gas compressor station that Spectra Energy plans to build in Weymouth, Massachusetts. The report—a quantitative and qualitative assessment of the human health impacts of soil, groundwater, air and noise pollution that will result from the compressor station—concludes that the …
In Weymouth, echoes of Flint
Boston Globe article on the opposition to the Weymouth compressor station.
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 test for the presence of 64 different potential toxins.
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 quality data that was suddenly introduced in the case of a controversial natural gas project in Weymouth.