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Featured Actions

Tell Your Representatives to Retire Bad Actor Chemicals!

Action starts: March 1, 2010
Action ends: March 31, 2010

You’ve met the Bad Actors at the Toxies, now take action to retire them. What’s a bad actor chemical? Bad actor chemicals negatively affect our health every day. Hundreds of case studies have shown the consequential health impacts of Bad Actor chemicals in our consumer goods. Formaldehyde, toluene, trichloroethylene, phthalates and perchloroethylene (perc) are just a few of the chemicals that cause cancer, birth defects and reproductive harm among other adversities.

Speak Out on Nuclear Weapons

Action starts: February 8, 2010
Action ends: February 28, 2010

In the next two weeks, President Obama will decide the administration’s direction and priorities on nuclear weapons issues, and perhaps the fate of the world, when he finalizes the Nuclear Posture Review (NPR). You can help him make the right decisions by writing a letter to the editor or submitting an op-ed to your local paper to explain how the NPR will set the direction for U.S. nuclear weapons policy for the next 5-10 years, and that the administration must seize this opportunity to take a global leadership role and make the United States and the world much safer.

Sign the Apollo Alliance petitionJumpstart Good Green Jobs in LA

Action starts: December 15, 2009
Action ends: December 24, 2009

Green union jobs can help rebuild our communities, and the time is now! PSR-LA’s key role as a member of the LA Apollo Alliance has ensured that policies for a healthier, greener California and Los Angeles are at the forefront in our local and state-wide policy work. In April 2009 the Los Angeles Apollo Alliance, a coalition of over 24 community, labor and environmental groups, organized to win a landmark Green Building Retrofit Ordinance to:

  • make existing city owned buildings more energy and water efficient and invest in ALL communities
  • create good union green jobs
  • create a pathway out of poverty for disadvantaged workers and community members

With Your support, our City leaders can step out to highlight the innovative work of community members, organized labor and the environmental community and implement our vision in 2010!Help us ensure the promise of the green economy reaches every community and that our neighbors, friends and family are put back to work.

keep-methyl-iodide-out-of-caKeep Methyl Iodide Out of California!

Action starts: December 8, 2009
Action ends: December 14, 2009

State authorities will likely decide this month if they will allow the use of methyl iodide – a highly carcinogenic and water contaminating chemical – as a pesticide in California. We have to act now to ensure that methyl iodide is never used in California’s fields.

Methyl iodide is so dangerous that it is used to create cancer in laboratories and over 50 scientists across the country – 5 of them Nobel Laureates – sent a letter to the EPA expressing astonishment that the agency was “working to legalize broadcast releases of one of the more toxic chemicals used in manufacturing into the environment.”

Demand Proper Cleanup of Radioactive and Chemical Contaminants

Action starts: October 1, 2009
Action ends: October 30, 2009

For years, PSR-LA worked to ensure the cleanup of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL), the site of rocket engine tests, nuclear energy research and a partial nuclear meltdown in 1959. Extensive chemical and radioactive contamination exists across the site in soil, groundwater, and surface water.

Federally-funded studies have found evidence that on-site exposures resulted in significantly elevated death rates from cancer among exposed workers, indications of increased cancer rates in nearby populations associated with their proximity to the site, and off-site releases of pollutants at levels that could produce significant health effects in the surrounding communities.

Unfortunately, the draft Consent Order to implement SB990 circumvents provisions of SB990, including the core stipulation that the most protective EPA Superfund standards be used to clean up the site. As it stands, the draft Consent Order could result in a clean up, or lack of clean up, that would fail to protect public health.

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