President Obama's most recent rallying cry has been, "We can't wait!" For those of us who embrace clean air like we do here at the Moms Clean Air Force blog, we explore new ideas that we can apply to this call to action. Beyond even our in-depth posts about the myriad ways in which we …

Stefanie Penn Spear is a small business owner, mother of three and Founder and Executive Director of the soon-to-be launched 24/7 print and online news outlet about the environment, EcoWatch. Stefanie details both the spark that ignited her dedication, and steps all of us can take to kindle the sparks and create sparks in others. …

In the book, Mothers' of Intention: How Women and Social Media Are Revolutionizing Politics In America, author, journalist, political analyst, and Pundit Mom, Joanne Bamberger writes from experience. In a Moms Clean Air Force exclusive interview, Bamberger tells moms why… Having an opinion never goes out of style. MCAF: What made you become an activist? …

Is there anything lower than an "F" in the commonly accepted report card letter grading system? Because even though that's the majority of Ohio's grade for its air as reported by the American Lung Association just last spring, Ohio State Senator, Kris Jordan (R, D19), wants to find out if we can make our kids, …

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 …

This piece was cross-posted at Writes Like She Talks I first spotted this on Progress Ohio’s blog, where they ask, “AEP: How Many Lives Are Your Polluter Profits Worth?: Join the on-the-ground fight against AEP’s outrageous dirty air bill, which would block life-saving clean air standards and cause 17,000 premature deaths every year! Over the …

This piece was cross-posted at Writes Like She Talks From NPR: The new rule replaces a similar Bush administration regulation that was struck down by a court that deemed it too lenient. The new rule will cut almost 2 million more tons of pollution per year than the Bush administration program. States from Texas to …

This piece was cross-posted on Writes Like She Talks. The current issue of Molecular Psychiatry features the work of Laura Fonken, a doctoral student in neuroscience at OSU. It’s titled, “Air pollution impairs cognition, provokes depressive-like behaviors and alters hippocampal cytokine expression and morphology.” According to this post on ScienceBlog.com, “Colleagues in Ohio State’s Department …

This piece was cross-posted from Writes Like She Talks Each of my Moms Clean Air Force posts includes a reminder that asks you to please consider joining the Moms Clean Air Force and help fight for clean air for our kids. I remind you, as I so often do in even my city council work, that every voice counts and is …

This piece was cross posted at Writes Like She Talks. I’m not in that group, but it is those who are that seem to be the most willing to ignore anything good that does derive from what seems like almost any quantity of regulation of almost anything. Where’s this observation of mine coming from? It …