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Home » Monthly Archive for: ‘December, 2012’

Top 10 U.S. Weather Events Of 2012

Posted on December 28, 2012 by Moms Clean Air Force|Posted in: Event, Guest Bloggers, Heat and Extreme Weather, Michigan, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, pollution, resources, Science, Texas, Utah|
Top 10 U.S. Weather Events Of 2012

This was written by Dr. Jeff Masters, co-founder of the Weather Underground. This post originally posted on Wunderblog, via Climate Progress: It was another year of incredible weather extremes unparalleled in American history during 2012. Eleven billion-dollar weather disasters hit the U.S., a figure exceeded only by the fourteen such disasters during the equally insane …

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EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson Announces Her Resignation

Posted on December 27, 2012 by Moms Clean Air Force|Posted in: asthma, Clean Air Rules and Regulations, Mercury Poisoning, politics, pollution, social justice, Toxics|
EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson Announces Her Resignation

STATEMENT BY EPA ADMINISTRATOR LISA P. JACKSON ANNOUNCING HER LEAVING CABINET AFTER STATE OF UNION "I want to thank President Obama for the honor he bestowed on me and the confidence he placed  in me four years ago this month when he announced my nomination as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. At the time …

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Snow Globe Warming

Posted on December 26, 2012 by Danny Shanahan|Posted in: Cartoon, Heat and Extreme Weather|
Snow Globe Warming

ASK THE PRESIDENT TO GIVE US A PLAN FOR CLIMATE CHANGE

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Santa Footprint

Posted on December 21, 2012 by Danny Shanahan|Posted in: Cartoon|
Santa Footprint

ASK THE PRESIDENT TO GIVE US A PLAN FOR CLIMATE CHANGE See our favorite clean air holiday cartoons and more HERE.

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Save The North Pole From Air Pollution!

Posted on December 21, 2012 by Moms Clean Air Force|Posted in: pollution|

This just in from the Alaska Dispatch: Readings at a North Pole, Alaska, air quality monitor on Tuesday showed hazardous levels of particulate pollution. Those levels, according to Dermot Cole of the Fairbanks News-Miner, are up this week, leading to an “unhealthy” air quality forecast from the Fairbanks North Star Borough. On Tuesday, temperatures in …

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Get Toxins Out Of Mattresses For Healthy ZZZ's

Posted on December 20, 2012 by Laura Michelle Burns|Posted in: Cancer, Clean Air Rules and Regulations, Indoor Air Pollution, Motherhood, Ohio, Toxics|
Get Toxins Out Of Mattresses For Healthy ZZZ's

The time has come to purchase a new mattress. My original plan was to go to a warehouse bedding store and purchase a new mattress. But then I visited my friend who had just bought a new mattress and the moment I entered, the smell permeated the air. I came home and started doing some …

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MCAF Joins Petition For EPA Protections From Oil And Gas Air Pollution

Posted on December 20, 2012 by Ronnie Citron-Fink|Posted in: Clean Air Rules and Regulations, Natural Gas, pollution, resources|
MCAF Joins Petition For EPA Protections From Oil And Gas Air Pollution

Moms Clean Air Force has joined a broad coalition of environmental, conservation and children’s health groups that petitioned the EPA to expand ozone monitoring in communities, near protected national parks and wilderness areas, and at oil and gas

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Sometimes, You Just Have To Laugh.

Posted on December 19, 2012 by Dominique Browning|Posted in: activism, Cartoon, pollution|
Sometimes, You Just Have To Laugh.

Sometimes, you just have to laugh. As in, need to laugh…otherwise, the issues we are tackling each and every day here at Moms Clean Air Force start to weigh too heavily on our hearts. Our marvelous cartoons, by Liza Donnelly and Danny Shanahan, never fail to deliver smiles. We can't help but see the absurdity …

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The Budding Health Care Costs Of Climate Change

Posted on December 18, 2012 by Moms Clean Air Force|Posted in: Economics, Heat and Extreme Weather, politics, pollution|

This piece was written by Dylan Walsh for The New York Times :  Images of physical damage have been prominent in the news coverage of Hurricane Sandy – the charred frames of houses in Breezy Point, Queens, for example, or a roller coaster submerged in the Atlantic City breakers. Far less conspicuous are long-term health effects, …

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Are Green Schools Keeping Their Promise?

Posted on December 18, 2012 by Gina Carroll|Posted in: African-American Community, asthma, Indoor Air Pollution, pollution, schools, Texas|
Are Green Schools Keeping Their Promise?

More than ever, we are a country concerned about the safety of our schools. Moms Clean Air Force has been focused on the environmental threats to our children from air pollution. As MCAF blogger, Molly Rauch points out, the air quality in schools is largely unregulated and can pose significant challenges to health and learning. …

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