This article was written by the Oregonian Editorial Board for OregonLive: Portland loves its reputation as a clean-green city, a place where trees scrub the air and rain rinses away the rest — and where every business is zero-emissions and eco-friendly. There is one problem with this perception: It's not quite true. The Portland area …

This poem was written by Al Zolynas: The same air that moves through me and you through the waving branches of the bronchial tree through veins through the heart the same air that fills balloons that carries voices full of lies and truths and half-truths that holds up the wings of butterflies humming birds eagles …

For mothers, there are four distinct times a year that are met with both sheer excitement and apprehension: report card day. We wait for the school bus to pull around the bend to see whether our kids bounded off the bus with excitement and pride or if they plodded out the door with a heavy …

Mom’s Clean Air Force will be attending Our Toxic Stuff at The Little Sprouts Children’s Boutique on Sunday, June 3 from 2-3:30. This is an informative event to learn about what types of chemicals are in our everyday products, how they can affect our health, and learn about ways to reduce exposure. An XRF testing device, which …

This post was written by Candace Lavin for the Mansfield Patch: Antonia remembers the day clearly when her five-year-old son was playing outdoors and suddenly was unable to catch his breath. “The look of fear and bewilderment in my son’s eyes was as frightening as his inability to catch his breath,” she said. After an …

Sometimes when I start to do research on a specific health and safety issue, I feel overwhelmed…toxins from air pollution settles into our water and contaminates our fish with mercury…asthma is on the rise…the elderly are seeing a greater battle with Alzhemier's Disease. I find myself wishing for simpler times when we could eat a …

This is from an article in the Cape Cod Times: The Cape has little in the way of a manufacturing industry, and yet along with much of the rest of Massachusetts, it pays for the coal-fired sins of the South and West in terms of its air quality. The American Lung Association recently released a …

This was written by Georgia Murray, Air Quality Scientist, Appalachian Mountain Club, New Hampshire: When we tell the story of the wolf in sheep clothing to our kids, we are warning them that not everyone or everything is what it seems. This is a step away from innocence, and most parents wish we did not …

This was written by Jesse Kornbluth for The Head Butler: It’s no one thing, just the drip drip drip of inaccuracies and misrepresentations, the hatred of the poor and the darkly pigmented, the lust to punish people who can’t fight back. This retro thinking and hateful speech pops up in surprising places — even, I …

When my youngest child graduated college recently, I sat sandwiched between my mother and daughter while my husband’s camera clicked away. A sea of black caps with pink tassels faced the stage gleaming with heightened expectancy. Speaker after speaker approached the podium to impart pearls of wisdom to the graduates. They spoke of fueling passions, …