The Folded Crane Physicians for Social Responsibility | Fall 2017

Building Momentum for Safer Communities and a Healthier Climate Regna Merritt, Healthy Climate Program Director, Power Past Coal Co-Director

As I began writing this article in warming oceans are clear signs that September in Shady Cove, I smelled global climate chaos is upon us. smoke. The was burning Have we hit our tipping point? in the Illinois River Valley, Chetco River corridor, and Kalmiopsis It can be difficult to maintain hope in Wilderness. The Milli fire was burning these dark times. But a recent victory in and near the Wilderness. — the denial of a key permit for the At home, the in the largest coal export facility in the nation Columbia Gorge was growing. Friends — renewed my hope. The Millennium August 29th protest of Vancouver oil-by-rail facility recently evacuated from the west side of Bulk Terminals project, which from the Gorge were returning home, while the mines to the power plants would individuals, and frontline communities those to the east prepared to leave. have pumped 55 million tons of join with Tribes stretching from the greenhouse gas pollutants into our mines to the ports to protect our At the same time, communities in atmosphere each year, will not be health, our environment, and tribal Texas and Florida were suffering from built! Washington State found that this treaty rights. Our team of health hurricanes and flooding. Over a thousand project would bring terrible and unavoid- professionals contributes mightily to people had died in floods in south able impacts that couldn’t be mitigated, regional efforts to keep coal and other Asia. Today, Puerto Rico reels from the including an increase in cancer rates. fossil fuels in the ground, protect those impacts of Hurricane Maria. Extreme most vulnerable, and push for a rapid weather and massive storms fueled by Powerful coalitions of organizations, transition to a healthy energy economy. (continued on page 3) Growing Cost and Safety Problems at CGS Nuclear Power Plant Chuck Johnson, Nuclear Power Program Director, and Damon Motz-Storey, Program Assistant

On August 20th of this year a valve discovered additional valves that needed in the Columbia Generating Station repair. Then, when attempting to bring (CGS) nuclear power plant’s condenser it back up to full power, they discovered froze shut, stopping its ability to cool that their coolant water contained too the reactor core and forcing plant much iron, which can cause breakdowns operators to rapidly shut down the in the zirconium cladding surrounding nuclear plant. It remained at zero power the nuclear fuel inside the reactor. for nearly two weeks. This loss of power generation gives us an insight into Water chemistry problems and stuck Steam rises from the Columbia Generating Station how the years have taken their toll on valves have been a consistent theme (photo courtesy of KING-5 News) this aging GE Boiling Water Reactor, with the CGS reactor in recent years. This latest unplanned shutdown, the the last remaining commercial nuclear This indicates that the plant, which is third within the last 18 months, comes power facility in the Pacific Northwest. nearing the end of its designed life in on the heels of another failure in the 2023, is showing its age. This reactor Energy Northwest’s low-level waste According to plant operator Energy has design flaws similar to those that shipping program. On August 11th, Northwest officials, the stuck valve caused the meltdown in Fukushima, Susannah Frame of Seattle’s KING-5 problem was fixed within a couple Japan, and should be shut down as News broadcast an exposé on recent of days of initial shutdown, but they soon as possible due to safety concerns. repeated errors in radioactive waste (continued on page 4) Board of Directors Dear Oregon PSR Supporter: Michele Bernal-Graves, MS Treasurer With the threat of climate chaos and David Chatfield nuclear war feeling all the more tangible as Andy Harris, MD fires, floods, and hurricanes wreak havoc Susan Katz, MD and tensions rise with North Korea, I am Vice-President more grateful than ever to be part of an Chris Lowe, PhD organization making progress on tackling Elaine McKenzie, RN, MPH these existential threats. Patricia Murphy, ND, LAc Secretary Oregon and Washington PSR members and staff express their We’ve had some incredible victories opposition to a proposed coal export facility in Longview, WA Joel Nigg, PhD for climate health in recent months. Patrick O’Herron, MD Oregon PSR has been in the leadership Power Program Director, leaving us at the end President John Pearson, MD of winning campaigns including halting of the year is that he’s moving on to become a construction of what would have been the program director at our international affiliate, Advisory Board nation’s largest coal export facility (page International Physicians for the Prevention of 1), convincing Metro to abandon a plan Nuclear War. Damon is working closely with George Austin to ship municipal waste for incineration Chuck to ensure a smooth transition as our work Sonia Buist, MD (page 4), and stopping PGE from building to end nuclear power charges ahead (page 1). Martin Donohoe, MD, FACP two fracked gas plants (page 5). As we hold Ben Duncan the line on these disastrous projects, we Staff, Board, and work group volunteers Yuri Hiranuma, DO also lead in supporting a just transition have begun an incredibly rich and useful Charles Hudson Zeenia Junkeer, ND to a renewable energy economy. There process of examining how our social justice Philip Newman, MD was no better place to be on the day that values can be better expressed throughout the Bonnie Reagan, MD Trump pulled out of the Paris climate organization in the past year. We’ve become Peter Spencer, PhD accord than in Portland and Multnomah more intentional about showing solidarity Karen Steingart, MD, MPH County as we won two of the strongest and standing up with those most affected Frances Storrs, MD and most equitable 100% renewable energy by systemic injustice in a variety of ways: Maye Thompson, RN, PhD resolutions in the country. participating in the One Oregon coalition’s Jan Wyers environmental committee to expose the While the threat of nuclear war looms greenwashing of anti-immigrant hate groups Staff larger than I can ever remember, Oregon (see page 6), raising our banner at events to Program Assistant PSR and our partners celebrated a major counter white nationalism, and supporting KellyAnn Cameron milestone this summer with the negotiation the leadership of communities most impacted [email protected] of the United Nation’s Treaty on the by climate injustice. Executive Director Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which Kelly Campbell makes the production and use of nuclear We’re growing in strength this year, as we’ve [email protected] weapons illegal under international law. had many new members join and long time Program Director In Oregon, we’ll be spreading the word by members re-engage. Whether it’s making Nuclear Power Program Chuck Johnson asking youth for their ideas about how to a larger gift this year-end, joining one of [email protected] eliminate nuclear weapons in their lifetime our work groups, or spreading our message th Program Director through our 10 annual Greenfield Peace through social media, I encourage you to Healthy Climate Program Writing Scholarship (page 5), a project find a way to increase your engagement with Regna Merritt managed by our fantastic new Quaker our vital work to create a healthy, just, and [email protected] Voluntary Service (QVS) fellow, KellyAnn peaceful world for all. Program Assistant Cameron (page 6). Damon Motz-Storey [email protected] In Peace and Health, In other staff changes, I am thrilled that our Associate Director former QVS fellow, Damon Motz-Storey, Sean Tenney [email protected] has agreed to remain on our staff. And the silver lining in Chuck Johnson, our Nuclear Kelly Campbell, Executive Director 2 Building Momentum for Safer Communities and a Healthier Climate (continued from page 1)

In the spirit of hope, I want to share Fossil Fuels in Portland PGE Carty in Boardman, OR with you just some of the many • Pushed Portland City Council to set • Halted PGE’s plans to build new accomplishments of Oregon PSR’s a national precedent in adopting fracked gas power plants in Oregon, Healthy Climate Action Team and our zoning code changes that ban the which would have added more than community partners over the past year: construction of new major fossil fuel 2 million tons of carbon pollution terminals and the expansion of annually (see page 5) Power Past Coal in the Pacific NW existing ones • Co-directed coalition efforts to prevent • Defended Portland zoning ordinances Jordan Cove and Pacific Connector the construction of the largest coal from a legal challenge by the Western Pipeline in SW Oregon export facility in the country in States Petroleum Association • Joined efforts to prevent a Canadian Longview, WA, securing the denial company from seizing property to of a key WA Dept. of Ecology permit 100% Renewable by 2050 in Portland build a 235-mile pipeline and a massive • Supported the Health Impact and Multnomah County liquefied natural gas export facility Assessment Steering Committee • Passed sister resolutions, focused on • Worked to prevent coal exports from a just transition away from the use of Renew Oregon British Columbia fossil fuels, nuclear power, incineration • Supported the Clean Energy Jobs • Strengthened relationships with tribal of medical and municipal waste, and campaign by providing health nations and frontline communities the burning of biomass, on the very professional testimony, rally speakers, • Helped deliver over 250,000 comments day that Trump abandoned the Paris and media support for efforts to cap opposing coal and oil export proposals Climate Accord greenhouse gas pollution and invest to Washington’s Governor Inslee in a just transition to clean energy Methanol Export Stand Up to Oil in the Pacific NW • Provided testimony opposing a Huge thanks to each of our volunteers • Provided the voice of medicine in proposal for the world’s largest and donors that make our work possible! technical comments, hearings, rallies, fracked gas methanol refinery and Oregon PSR provides a home for you and in the media to stop Tesoro- export facility in Kalama, WA to express your concerns, exercise your Savage in Vancouver, WA, which skills, and engage deeply in efforts to would be the largest oil-by-rail Covanta waste-to-energy in Brooks, OR protect Pacific Northwest communities facility in the nation • Led successful efforts to secure the and our climate. • Opposed Union Pacific’s efforts to denial of the proposed incineration increase the number and speed of oil of 200,000 tons of Metro Portland For more information or to get more and coal trains moving through waste annually, protecting our involved with our Healthy Climate Mosier, OR, site of the 2016 communities from toxic air and Program, email [email protected]. derailment and fiery explosion climate pollution (see page 4) Volunteer Spotlight: Akash Singh

Akash Singh (pictured left) is a Student the refugee crisis, and police brutality. Fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Throughout his work, Akash has realized Solutions, a scientist with PSU’s STAR that an unfortunate defecit exists in Research Lab, and the Environmental highlighting how critical social issues Justice Organizer at Neighbors for Clean have public health consequences. He Air. He represents the NAACP and the sees Oregon PSR as a community Environmental Justice Task Force for the champion in bridging that gap by Cleaner Air Oregon regulatory program. connecting critical social issues and He also represents Oregon PSR on the public health, and he is ecstatic to One Oregon coalition and is currently bring his skills to an organization working to develop factsheets on the committed to social justice in these health implications of immigration, trying times. 3 Growing Cost and Safety Problems at CGS Nuclear Power Plant (continued from page 1)

shipping at the CGS. The plant had its supervisor, in an interoffice memo. market through 2028. For example, waste shipping rights suspended by the utility purchasers in Clark County WA State Department of Health, the Portland-based economist Robert and Eugene are projected to lose $66 third suspension of the plant’s shipping McCullough believes that the growing million and $53 million respectively rights in the past three years. number of breakdowns and errors at between 2006 and 2028 by sticking the plant may be due to pressure to with CGS nuclear power instead of Ms. Frame’s story would not have been reduce costs at the aging nuclear facility. Mid-Columbia market purchases. possible without being in contact with McCullough’s studies have shown brave, anonymous whistleblowers at that the CGS costs regional ratepayers Energy Northwest is a publicly-owned the CGS who have been reporting on $100-200 million more annually than company with seats on its board problems at the plant to board members the cost of replacement power available nominated by Governor Inslee of and the media for the last two years. on the market, and Energy Northwest Washington and the utilities that buy Her reporting exposes numerous health itself has acknowledged that it will its power. Now is the time for residents and safety concerns at the plant dating need to reduce its costs considerably of Clark County, Eugene, and other back to 2014, including, in November to remain competitive. communities to contact their utilities of 2016, “contaminated filters arriving and demand that their representatives at the state’s dump measuring a radiation Augmenting McCullough’s work, call for a shut down of the Columbia level seven times greater than what regional economist Philip D. Lusk Generating Station. Health and safety was listed on the shipping manifest.” recently published a market test report concerns, as well as economic ones, “Incorrect details within the shipping that suggests Pacific NW electricity will only be finally resolved by replacing manifest can increase risk to the health customers could pay $1.64 billion the Northwest’s last nuclear power and safety of the public,” wrote Robby more for power from the CGS than by plant with clean, renewable energy Peek, Energy Northwest Quality Services purchasing it from the wholesale power and energy efficiency. Celebrating Metro’s Decision to Abandon Waste Incineration Proposal

On August 8th, health, environmental severely impacted by the proposal. justice, and community groups Waste-to-energy still requires landfilling, celebrated as the Metro Council voted since one ton of ash is produced for to proceed no further with a proposal every four tons of solid waste burned. to send 200,000 tons of waste per year to the Covanta Marion incinerator in “Waste-to-energy incineration is an Brooks, OR. This amount equals one- outmoded, dirty, high-carbon tech- fifth of the tri-county area’s solid waste. nology that is inconsistent with the Fifteen organizations led by Oregon climate action, environmental justice, PSR, the NAACP Portland Branch, and sustainability policies embraced and Neighbors for Clean Air sent a throughout our region. Today’s Oregon PSR members & partners anticipate Metro’s vote letter to the Metro Council in August decision allows Metro to more urging them to abandon the proposal. intensely focus on its excellent waste Stakeholder Advisory Group for the reduction, reuse, recycling, and project’s Health Impact Assessment. Based upon EPA data, waste-to-energy composting programs, and its current incinerators produce more pollution emphasis on getting food scraps out The groups who joined Oregon PSR, and global warming emissions per of the waste. No one likes landfills, Portland NAACP, and Neighbors for unit of electricity produced than coal- or the air emissions produced by Clean Air include 350 Salem, 350 PDX, fired power plants. Communities them or by transporting waste to APANO, BARK, Beyond Toxics, Climate that already face socioeconomic and them, but the way to reduce both is Action Coalition, Eastside Portland health inequities, including youth, to reduce our total waste as well as Air Coalition, Onward Oregon, Sierra elders, people of color, and low-income food scraps waste.”said Joseph Miller, Club Oregon Chapter, North Portland communities, would have been most PhD of Oregon PSR and the Metro Air Quality, PCUN, and Verde. 4 Victory in the Movement for Clean Energy, Not Fracked Gas Damon Motz-Storey, Program Assistant

At the beginning of this year, Oregon atmosphere during its extraction, PSR joined a new campaign to shut transportation, and burning, but down Portland General Electric’s plans scientists agree that even a small to build new gas power plants at the percentage of leakage would make the Carty Generating Station near climate impacts of gas comparable to Boardman, OR. The plants would have the use of coal. Fracking accounts for increased imports of fracked “natural” well over half of the “natural” gas gas from Canada into the state, replacing imported into Oregon, and its waste- the soon-to-be decommissioned water has been known to contain Boardman Coal Plant with another dangerous chemicals such as benzene, climate-busting fossil fuel. Thanks to formaldehyde, and petroleum distillate. Damon Motz-Storey speaks out for clean energy your help, the campaign was a success. PGE responded to public demand for Health professionals know that fracking The voice of public health was essential clean, renewable energy and suspended is too dirty and too dangerous to be in turning the tide on the proposed their permit application process for considered a viable energy source. Carty gas plants in Boardman. Health the plants. The Oregon Public Utility Moving from coal to gas fails to professionals were also key in making Commission hammered the last nail adequately address our need for clean, Portland and Multnomah County’s into the coffin by refusing to give their renewable energy in the face of climate commitments to 100% clean, renewable stamp of approval to new gas plants in change. The effects of climate change energy among the most progressive PGE’s future plans. are already manifesting in the form of and equitable in the country. Journalists hotter, drier summers and stronger, said that PGE faced “a buzzsaw of So-called “natural” gas is mostly methane, wetter storms. Climate change is not on opposition” to building new fracked gas a fossil fuel that traps heat 86 times the horizon; it is happening here and plants. With your continued support, more effectively than carbon dioxide now. Low income communities and we can ensure that buzzsaw remains during the first 20 years of its lifespan. communities of color contribute least strong in cutting away fossil fuel interests It is not fully known how many fugitive to climate change but are being hit so that we may build the healthy and methane emissions leak into the first, and hardest, by its effects. just future that we all deserve. Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki

On Wednesday, August 9th of this year, hundreds gathered in downtown Portland for Remembering Hiroshima & Nagasaki: From Despair to Hope, a memorial coordinated by Oregon PSR to honor the victims of the 1945 atomic bombings. The event came one month after 122 countries voted in the United Nations to approve an historic ban treaty on nuclear weapons. Our sincere appreciation to the event speakers and performers, the planning committee, the co-sponsoring organizations and donors, and to everyone who attended. Thank you! Greenfield Peace Writing Scholarship Focuses on Nuclear Weapons

Now in its tenth consecutive year, the Greenfield Peace Writing Scholarship is an opportunity to hear from young Oregonians on some of the most pressing issues of our time. Over the past decade, we have heard from thousands of Oregon high school juniors and seniors on issues ranging from creating a more peaceful world, addressing climate change, confronting the epidemic of gun violence, and more. In 2018, we are asking students to respond to the following question: “What would it take to eliminate nuclear weapons in your lifetime?” Submissions must be essays, narratives, or poems of 600 words or fewer, and 11th and 12th grade students residing or going to school in Oregon are eligible. Entries must be received by March 5th, 2018. Please help us in spreading the word regarding this opportunity to any Oregon high school students, parents, teachers, and youth groups in your network. 5 Oregon PSR Opposes Anti-Immigrant Initiative Petition 22 Damon Motz-Storey, Program Assistant

Oregon PSR opposes Initiative “...we believe that all people, wherever they were Petition 22 (IP 22), an attempt by the born, deserve a healthy environment with clean anti-immigrant hate group Oregonians air, clean water, and a stable climate.” for Immigration Reform (OFIR) to repeal our state’s 30-year-old inclusivity Oregon Coalition that defends against public health. Deportation and the law (ORS 181A.820) prohibiting the use anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim threat of deportation negatively affect of state and local resources to enforce policies and ballot measures and both mental health and access to health federal immigration law. OFIR is works to ensure that all Oregonians, care. Children of deportees are at risk recognized by the Southern Poverty regardless of country of birth, are of increased health problems due to Law Center as a nativist extremist treated with dignity and respect. Along loss of economic support and familial group with ties to white nationalism. with our fellow members of the One relationship. The threat of deportation If successful, IP 22 would put repealing Oregon Environmental Committee, erodes trust in local institutions including our 1987 inclusivity law, which is we believe that all people, wherever law enforcement, which erodes public strongly supported by state and local they were born, deserve a healthy safety for everyone. Lack of trust in law enforcement, onto Oregon’s environment with clean air, clean institutions also reduces people’s November 2018 ballot. water, and a stable climate. likelihood to seek timely medical treatments, which can negatively IP 22 is presented as a law-and-order We stand with other leading environ- affect the health of all people. measure to require local authorities to mental groups in Oregon to make it assist federal immigration enforcement. clear that environmentalism is about If you are asked to sign an IP 22 The 1987 inclusivity law that IP 22 would both healthy people and places, petition to get this initiative on the repeal was put into place because law without exception. As a peace ballot, refuse to sign, and let your officers were racially profiling Latinos organization, we are called to speak friends and family know that they and conducting raids in their homes, out against a measure that involves should decline to sign, as well. If this workplaces, and houses of worship. racial profiling and scapegoating of a anti-immigrant initiative does make OFIR’s main marketing ploy in general vulnerable population. We know that it on the ballot, we believe that a “no” and with this bill is that immigration is hateful rhetoric leads to hateful actions, vote will be in keeping with best bad for the environment. There is no increasing violence and diminishing practices for public health and safety. factual basis for such a claim. public health and safety. Stay tuned for more updates from In keeping with our social justice values, In addition, deportation of immigrants Oregon PSR and our partners as Oregon PSR is a member of the One presents a many-faceted threat to this campaign unfolds. Meet KellyAnn Cameron, Our New Program Assistant

In September, we welcomed KellyAnn with Network, a national lobby for Cameron (pictured right) as our Catholic Social Justice, which inspired new Program Assistant through a her to continue engaging with lobbying collaboration with Quaker Voluntary as activism. While in college she was Service, an organization that supports most engaged in anti-racist conversations young people in giving a year of work and faith-based organizing while for social movements nationwide. supporting other campus and Raised in Spokane, WA, KellyAnn community events and campaigns. graduated in 2017 from Mount KellyAnn’s first project with Oregon Holyoke College in Massachusetts with PSR has been helping organize the 2018 majors in Middle Eastern Studies and Greenfield Peace Writing Scholarship. Religion. During her time at Mount We are thrilled to welcome KellyAnn Holyoke she spent a summer interning to Oregon PSR! 6 Thank You to Our Generous Donors Leadership Circle Donors $10,000 and above Patrick O’Herron, MD & Maxine Fookson, PNP & Ned Rosch Frances Storrs, MD Diane Rempe, PhD Stan Freidberg, MD & Colleen Freidberg Patricia Reilly Sharon & Don Genasci Ann Turner, MD and Catherine Bax $5,000 and above Steven Gilbert, PhD, DABT Meribeth Walker-Schneider Anonymous John Gillette MD Kathleen Wiley, MD and Bonnie Reagan, MD & Peter Reagan, MD Marshall Goldberg, MD Robert Carolan, MD Rebecca Robinson Susan Katz, MD Teresa Keane, MSN, PMHNP $1,000 and above *Leadership Circle donors have given Ronnie Lacroute or pledged $1,000 or more per year. George & Carol Austin Elaine McKenzie, RN, MPH Thomas Buchanan Joel Nigg, PhD T.J. & Trisha Campbell John Pearson, MD & Nena Pearson

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