Yesterday, President Biden announced his latest Build Back Better Framework, and Moms applauded. This bill would make a historic climate investments.
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Biden’s Build Back Better Framework Includes Historic Investments in Climate Solutions
UNICEF: “Every Child Deserves a Livable Planet.”
Nearly half of the world’s children live in “high risk” countries that are at high risk for climate change. UN Climate Week 2021 addressed prioritizing the threat to future generations caused by climate change.
EPA Mapping Tool: Power Plants and Neighboring Communities
The EPA recently released a new mapping tool that focuses on “Power Plants and Neighboring Communities” to examine where sources of emissions are located. This is particularly useful to address how these sources impact EJ communities.
The Olympics, Air Pollution, and the Future of Kids’ Sports
While watching the Olympics, an athlete with asthma reflects about how air pollution threatens the future of kids’ sports by excluding low-income kids and communities of color because of disproportionate rates of air pollution.
Moms Make News: Electric Bus Tour Pulls Out All the Stops!
Moms Clean Air Force staff and members continue to build support for clean, electric school buses, and make climate news throughout the country!
Environmental Racism: Colorado’s Suncor Refinery Pollutes Community
For more than 10 years, the Suncor refinery has been operating on an expired Clean Air Act permit polluting communities of color in Colorado.
Moms Make News: “Let’s Get Rolling” Electric School Bus Tour Launches
Moms Clean Air Force staff and members launch the “Let’s Get Rolling” summer tour to build support for clean, electric school buses, and made news on climate issues throughout the country!
Moms Make News: All Aboard the Electric School Bus
Moms Clean Air Force staff and members help reinstate methane protections and made news on climate issues throughout the country!
Dangerous Heat, Drought, and Wildfires Threaten US Families
Much of the country is in the middle of a mega heat wave that has exploded in the West along with a megadrought that’s been decades in the making. This all stacks up to more and more dangerous air pollution.
Environmental Racism Explained
There are unexpected effects of discriminatory environmental policies. Here are 10 facts about how environmental racism works.
Exclusive Interview with Dr. Robert Bullard: “Let’s Make 2021 the Year for Justice”
For many years, Dr. Robert Bullard has studied the disproportionate impacts of pollution on communities of color. In this interview he tells us why the matter of environmental justice is now elevated the matter to “the highest level.”
Deadly Particle Pollution Is a Racial Justice Issue
A new study found that disparities in particle pollution exposure were present across each and every one of the 14 sources of particle pollution for Black people compared to whites.