As we deal with the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic, Trump’s EPA’s is deliberately ignoring the toxic effects from the chemical Tricloroethylene. Prolonged exposure to TCE can lead to liver and kidney cancer, as well as fetal heart defects.
Articles by Molly Rauch
Censoring Science Only Harms Families
As we face an unprecedented public health crisis around Covid-19, we are relying on the scientific expertise. But Trump’s EPA’s is rushing through a dangerous proposal to undermine scientific integrity.
Moms Oppose Weakening the National Environmental Policy Act at Hearing
Moms Clean Air Force spoke at a public hearing in DC to oppose the proposed rollback of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), because it is an attempt to deny climate science, weaken the environmental review process, and restrict public participation in federal projects.
Moms Clean Air Force Testifies Before Congress, Again, to Defend Mercury Standards
Read about Moms Clean Air Force testifying in support of maintaining the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, as they are attacked by the Trump administration.
Moms Accelerate Fight for Clean Cars While Trump Pushes Industry Into Breakdown Lane
The Trump administration is in the final stages of weakening The Clean Car Standards. The rollback of this successful rule is a direct attack on the health of our children, reversing years of progress on reducing climate pollution.
Moms Join Jane Fonda in DC to Demand Climate Action
Moms Clean Air Force National Field Director Heather McTeer Toney joined Jane Fonda, Dolores Huerta, Gloria Steinem, and other activist icons at the “Fire Drill Friday” rally on December 20, 2019.
Doctors Warn Against the “False Promise” of Natural Gas
Physicians in the New England Journal of Medicine called out natural gas as a threat to health and a setback for climate action, laying out the case for rejecting “the false promise” of natural gas.
American Indian Women Speak Out on Mercury Standards
We’re launching a series of interviews with Native American women about the importance of clean air and water to them, their children, and their communities – and why they oppose any effort to undermine the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards.
Protecting the Mercury Rules Is a Crucial Moment for Our Babies
Moms Clean Air Force staff went to the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) with messages that highlighted the health risks of Trump’s proposed changes to the existing, working mercury rules.
Clean Cars for Future Drivers
Transportation is the largest source of climate change pollution in the US. Young people are paying close attention, as they prepare to strike for a cleaner climate future. So we need to be slashing climate pollution from cars and trucks as quickly as possible, not rolling back climate protections.
Air Pollution Is Changing the Way We Raise Our Kids
A new report from the National Parks Conservation Association shows that the air in our national parks – a vast 85-million-acre system of 419 sites in every state, ranging from monuments to battlefields to historic sites and more – is also sub-par. In fact, 96% of our national parks are plagued with significant air pollution problems.
Moms Clean Air Force Testifies Before Congress on Defending Mercury Standards
Moms Clean Air Force’s Heather McTeer Toney joined other leading experts to testify in opposition to Trump’s EPA controversial proposal to undermine our country’s mercury pollution standards. “Why Administrator Wheeler would ever consider weakening a rule that protects babies’ brains is senseless.”