environment & health

Opinion: Physicians Must Reduce Plastic Waste

December 4, 2025

By Bridget Lee, MD, GBPSR Board Member

Dr. Brita Lundberg on Gas Leaf Blowers

November 10, 2025

GBPSR’s Brita Lundberg, MD, explains the health risks of gas leaf blowers.

An urgent call to bring an affordable, climate-friendly inhaler to the US

September 21, 2024

by Dr. Wynne Armand, GBPSR board member

How do trees and green spaces enhance our health?

April 19, 2024

Op-ed by Dr. Wynne Armand, GBPSR Board Member, in Harvard Health Publishing.

Pollution inequality must stop; enforce roadmap law

January 23, 2023

Op-ed in CommonWealth Magazine by Brita Lundberg, MD, Chair of Greater Boston PSR, and Adrienne Allen, MD.

Gas stoves are contributing to childhood asthma in Massachusetts, study finds

January 5, 2023

Article in the Boston Globe quoting GBPSR Chair of the Board Dr. Brita Lundberg.

Escalating Costs of Billion-Dollar Disasters in the US: Climate Change Necessitates Disaster Risk Reduction

January 4, 2023

Paper co-authored by Greater Boston PSR member Vijai Bhola in the Journal of Climate Change and Health.

The False Promise of Fossil Fuel-Derived Hydrogen

December 29, 2022

Co-authored by GBPSR members Dr. Brita E. Lundberg and Eden Diamond, Medical Student, in Vital Signs (Massachusetts Medical Society)

Scientific journal investigating UMass hydrogen study after revelations of gas industry influence

December 13, 2022

Boston Globe article quoting GBPSR’s Dr. Regina LaRocque.

Criticism grows on new Peabody peaker plant

December 8, 2022

Salem News article quoting GBPSR’s Dr. Brita Lundberg.