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 …

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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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 …

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 …

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

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 …

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, …

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. …