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Evidence of widespread contamination of human beings makes it clear that the nation’s outdated and ineffective chemical management system must be reformed. Tell your Representative and your Senators that we must protect our health from toxic chemicals.

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Welcome to PSR's Legislative Action Center where you'll find the tools you need to help you be an effective advocate for key national and state policies. Use these pages to comment on an important public policy issue, e-mail and locate your Congressional Representatives, or get important information about them.

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Security 

Countdown to Oslo -- December 10, 2009
Please urge the President to use the spotlight afforded by the Nobel Peace Prize to affirm that the U.S. is serious about stopping the development of new nuclear weapons--for all nations--forever.
Ask Congress to Speak Out for Nuclear Disarmament
With the U.S. and Russia negotiating a new nuclear weapons reduction treaty, and the U.S. preparing a new Nuclear Posture Review--now is the time to speak out on nuclear weapons issues.
Include Incidents at Sea in Negotiations with Iran
Please contact your representative in the U.S. House and ask him/her to sign on as a co-sponsor of H. Con. Res. 94. This is a significant precautionary step in order to avoid a larger conflict.
Tell President Obama: Take Nukes off 'hair trigger' alert!
President Obama states that he will "work with Russia to take U.S. and Russian ballistic missiles off hair trigger alert." He can take the first step in making that happen by unilaterally taking all U.S. nuclear warheads off ready alert status.
Stop the Reprocessing of Nuclear Waste
Tell the DOE that it should withdraw the Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement and cancel GNEP. Reprocessing is too dangerous, polluting, and expensive and won't solve our radioactive waste problem.

  

 Environment and Health

Urgent Vote Coming - Defend the Clean Air Act in the House
Please email and call your representatives today and urge them to vote NO on the Murkowski Senate Resolution and in the House of Representatives to vote NO on any legislation that removes greenhouse gases as a defined air pollutant under the Clean Air Act
Urgent Vote Coming - Defend the Clean Air Act in the Senate
Please email and call your representatives today and urge them to vote NO on the Murkowski Senate Resolution and in the House of Representatives to vote NO on any legislation that removes greenhouse gases as a defined air pollutant under the Clean Air Act
Tell Energy Secretary: No Risky Nuclear Reactor Loan Guarantees
Please contact Secretary Chu and the managers of the Title XVII Loan Guarantee program to tell them that issuing conditional loan guarantees would risk billions of taxpayer funds on unlicensed and uneconomical new reactors.
Urgent Vote Coming - Defend the Clean Air Act
Action alert asking senators to vote no on Murkowski amendment
Coal's Assault on Human Health
Please urge your Senators to protect our health, and our children's health, from coal pollution.
Keep Carbon Emissions Regulated
Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) is circulating a letter to fellow Senators that asks Majority Leader Harry Reid to ensure that global warming legislation include Clean Air Act limits on greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants.
Tell Your Senators: No Nuclear Subsidies in the Climate Bill
A climate bill with nuclear subsidies would not be a climate bill at all; we need the fastest, cleanest, safest and cheapest means of reducing carbon emissions, and nuclear power does not fit the bill.
Protect Our Health from Toxic Chemicals
Hazardous chemicals report alert
Call on Congress to Switch to More Secure Chemicals
Please join us in pushing for safer alternatives. Tell your Representative on the Energy and Commerce Committee to vote for the Waxman-Markey chemical security legislation without weakening amendments.
Help Create Strong Climate Legislation
Tell your Senators that to protect public health and the planet, we as a nation must move away from dangerous energy.
Reprocessing does not belong in a climate bill
Please contact your Senators today and tell them that reprocessing is not a solution for spent fuel and does not belong in a climate bill.
No more subsidies for the nuclear industry
Please contact President Obama today and tell him no more subsidies for the nuclear industry. It is essential that we address climate change by pursuing the fastest, cheapest, and cleanest alternatives first. Nuclear power does not meet these criteria.
Tell Congress: Remove toxic chemicals from food containers!
Please tell your Member of Congress to protect our health by co-sponsoring the BPA Act of 2009.
Tell EPA: Global Warming Endangers Public Health
Please let the EPA know that, as a health professional, you agree with their finding - that global warming has dire effects on human health - and urge them to act on this finding by regulating greenhouse gasses under the authority of the Clean Air Act.
Tell EPA: Global Warming Endangers Public Health
Please let the EPA know that you agree with their endangerment finding that global warming has dire effects on human health and urge them to act on this finding by regulating greenhouse gases under the authority of the Clean Air Act.
EPA Finds Global Warming a Clear Threat to Public Health
Please contact your representative in the House today and tell them the U.S. must take global leadership by passing comprehensive climate legislation. This will spur clean energy growth and avert the most catastrophic public health consequences.
Tell the NRC: Radioactive Waste Matters!
Tell the NRC that it must conduct a full Environmental Impact Statement analysis, as required by the law.
Tell Congress: Support Clean Energy, Infrastructure in Stimulus
Ask your congressional leaders to support renewable energy and energy efficiency when they take up the stimulus package this week, and support a clean energy future.