PSR Colorado is the CO state chapter of the Nobel Prize winning national organization,
Physicians for Social Responsibility
Guided by the values and expertise of health professionals,
PSR Colorado members and allies offer evidence-based education and advocacy, elevating the voices of health professionals to protect current and future generations from the health impacts of hydraulic fracturing, the climate crisis, and exposure to radionuclides and other toxic substances. PSR Colorado advocates for alternatives to reliance on fossil fuels and nuclear energy.
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Speak out! Are your Colorado legislators and state agencies protecting public health from polluters?
Recent Climate/Health Policy Resources
How Colorado Beat Xcel Energy’s Hydrogen Blending Scheme
The Clean Heat Plan: A Win for Climate, Health & Xcel Ratepayers
Extreme Heat: Solutions for Equitable Cooling
Local Government Planning for
Healthy Electric Homes
We don’t give up!
PSR Colorado, a chapter of PSR national, believes in prevention and supports policies that protect the public and the environment that supports life on Earth. Thus, we educate and advocate for nuclear weapons abolition, reduction of climate-harming emissions, and for healthy air and water quality.
Our members are health professionals, concerned scientists, parents, students, and impacted community members.
With help from members and donors, we educate decision-makers and the public and participate in policy proceedings at the local and state levels to help mitigate the harmful health and climate impacts caused by emissions released by fossil fuel production, transport, and consumption.
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PSR Colorado works at the local, state, and federal level to support communities in their efforts to mitigate fracking and its harmful impacts through lobbying, educating decision-makers, letters to the editor, testimonies, and seminars.
Our Building Electrification project engages the public and our allies in support of legislation, regulations, and other efforts that reduce consumer dependence on fossil fuels and promotes widescale adoption of high-efficiency electric appliances in homes.
PSR Colorado opposes nuclear power due to the health risks from exposure to radiation released by leaks and waste storage. We also work to reduce public exposure to plutonium and other radioactive contaminants near the former Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant site.
Locally, nationally, and globally the climate crisis disproportionately impacts the lives and health of those who are most vulnerable. Across the board, communities of color, indigenous people, and those who are socio-economically disadvantaged pay the price of poor environmental quality and are least able to adapt to climate change.
Read about PSR Colorado’s News and Achievements in our Recent Newsletters
Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) national was founded in 1961 with the motto “Prevention is the only cure.” This has led us to educate and advocate for nuclear weapons reductions and the prevention of nuclear war and more recently to rise to the challenge of the climate crisis.
PSR Colorado, a chapter of PSR national, believes in prevention and works at the state and local levels to support policies that will protect the public and our precious environment that supports life on the planet.
We support policies that promote renewable energy sources such as wind and solar instead of false solutions like carbon credits and carbon capture that prolong our reliance of fossil fuels and harm our health.
We advocate for legislation to raises standards for healthy, emission-free HVAC systems and provides financial support for adoption of heat pumps that reduce consumer dependence on gas.
We engage health professionals and allies in advocacy for measures that will reduce harms to people living in communities suffering from the cumulative impacts of exposures to toxic chemical emissions from oil and gas, big industry, and highway pollution. We participate in rulemaking at the Energy and Carbon Management Commission to push for protections from these exposures.
We promote policies that provide wide-scale funding for transitioning from gas to high efficiency electric heat pumps for heating and cooling and for high efficiency stoves and electric appliances in homes.
Along with the Colorado Renewable Energy Society, we successfully intervened at the Colorado Public Utilities Commission to stop Xcel's plans to bring dangerous hydrogen into homes.
Our members work to educate and advocate for legal and policy action to reduce public exposure to plutonium and other radioactive contaminants in the Rocky Flats Wildlife Refuge. Recently, we joined allies to educate and testify at Westminster City Council hearings and were successful in urging their withdrawal from the Rocky Mountain Greenway that would run through the area surrounding the former nuclear weapons plant.
And we will be speaking out to make sure that when the Comanche 3 coal fired plant in Pueblo is closed, it will be replaced by safe renewable energy and not unproven small nuclear reactors.
