I will never forget when this man-made catastrophe occurred. I was a newcomer to Twitter but had several trusted journalist friends who were already tweeting. One such friend, the highly regarded Amy Gahran, along with me and a few others, noticed tweets coming out about an enormous failure at a coal or fly ash repository …

On a recent summer vacation in the Adirondacks, my mother and daughters reflect on the value of clean air (in between giggles, fishing and s'mores). My cuties make clean air a family affair! Why does your family love clean air? PLEASE JOIN MOMS CLEAN AIR FORCE  

Hurricane Irene loomed over the East Coast and finally made landfall in my neck of the woods late Sunday morning. As my family geared up for Irene’s destruction, we prepared by running through the list of dangers that might accompany a hazardous set of weather conditions such as: high winds, power outages, trees down, flooding, …

This is a Guest Post from Laura Michelle Burns: As a mom living in the Great Lakes Region, I’m exposed to Republican candidates here in Ohio vying for positions of leadership that would allow them to make changes to our budget in such a way that will limit and even put an end to EPA’s …

With an insistent drumbeat coming from the Republican side of the aisle promoting the concept that the Environmental Protection Agency (founded in 1970 during Richard Nixon’s administration) is responsible for a laundry list of problems, I needed to get some feedback from another point of view. I was relieved that perceived attacks on the EPA …

  As politicians ratchet up the rhetoric on how the Environmental Protection Agency is creating problems for the economy, one woman from Georgia has a different point of view about the importance of clean air regulations. Chandra Brown resides in Metter, Georgia, with her husband and two daughters. “Where we live,” she told me, “we …

The military is going green! No, seriously – IT IS!!  And not just the old uniforms or a Sherman tank at the Fort Knox museum either. The Department of Defense has been considering various alternative renewable energy projects – 249 in all, in 35 states and Puerto Rico. A month or so ago, results were released and …

This is a guest post written by Karen Malone Wright from TheNotMom.com ~ Spotlighting and embracing women who, by choice or by chance, do not have children. The exhibit hall of sponsors at BlogHer looking to connect with women and women bloggers was huge. Some brands were no surprise to find there: P&G, Playskool, Best …

The stores, the TV, the magazines, and my email Inbox all tell me, it's back to school time. I have been pretending that it isn't really happening because I know, as a teacher, once I go back, I hit the ground running, and don't look up until November. And for me, that's tomorrow! In my …

As we shared with you last week, Lamar and I just became bloggers for the Moms Clean Air Force (MCAF).  We are new to the environmental movement. Yes, we recycle, we try to save energy, and we have a hybrid (I am proud of that fact), I know that we can do more. And thanks …