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Grijalva Resigns from Key House Committee

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Southern Arizona’s champion of climate justice and the environment, Rep. Raúl Grijalva announced yesterday that he will not continue to serve as the Ranking Member of the Natural Resources Committee.

Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Atomic Bomb Survivors

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The last survivors of the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize “for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again.”

Action Alert: New Heat Rules from OSHA

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Send a comment to OSHA now to protect workers from extreme heat

Disappointing End to Budget Talks for RECA Survivors

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Passed in 1990, the need for RECA emerged after the first in-depth medical study in the 1980s—later found to have underestimated the full impact—of what the Cold War cost in terms of American lives.

Protest Pinyon Plain Uranium Mine Haul Route! 

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PSR Northern Arizona will be joining the Grand Canyon Chapter of the Sierra Club at an Emergency Rally on August 24 to protest the hauling of radioactive uranium ore through the Navajo Nation.

Uranium Action Alert

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An update on the continuing threats of mining on Navajo lands from the Grand Canyon Trust.

Summer Reading

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Updates on Rep. Grijalva, new OSHA heat rules, and resources on heat safety.

What the RECA Delay Means

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Failure of the House to act on RECA puts untold thousands of lives in limbo.

Don’t Let RECA Expire!

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This year tremendous momentum has built up behind legislation to finally bring justice to radiation victims who have been denied compensation for decades. Call Speaker Johnson to urge a vote to extend and expand RECA.

Memorial Day Reminder to Honor the Downwinders

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What Is the Hold Up?  RECA Renewal Countdown Begins Earlier this month, Martin Fleck, PSR’s Nuclear Weapons Abolition Program Director, urged us to remember the plight of the Downwinders, whose…

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