My Air Gets An F
You don’t want to see a bad grade on your child’s report card, but does the air she breathes pass the test? Is your family, like mine, among the 42 percent of Americans who live in places where the air itself is dangerous to breathe, according to the American Lung Association’s State of the Air …
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What's Better? More Pollution, Or Less Pollution? (video)
Moms Clean Air Force has created a series of ads with the Environmental Defense Fund to express gratitude for senators in Missouri, New Hampshire, North Carolina and Virginia. Their opposition to anti-Clean Air Act amendments during Senate budget debates in March that would have blocked the EPA’s historic Carbon Pollution Standard, the Mercury and Air Toxics …
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Climate Denial Seeps Into Our Schools
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has a targeted plan regarding what your child learns about climate change. ALEC pushes anti-science bills that mandate teaching climate denial or “skepticism” in public schools. ALEC is a "corporate bill mill” — written by, and for corporate lobbyists that work alongside conservative legislators. As a young teacher, I …
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Children's Singer RAFFI Concerts!
We have great news! Singer and advocate Raffi will be performing concerts the US this spring–and his concerts will be presented in association with Moms Clean Air Force! Millions know Raffi for his work as a children’s entertainer whose string of gold and platinum-selling recordings in North America includes his classic, “Baby Beluga.” Raffi has been called …
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High Fives To Our 5,000 Twitter Followers!
Last week we hit 5,000 followers on Twitter — a historic moment for MCAF and clean air! Once again, we thank our powerful group of followers for their ongoing support and passion. As our community steadily grows, we engage more and more followers. And you know what that means? More and more people around the …
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MCAF Tells EPA: Moms Want Clean Cars
At a public hearing in Philadelphia this week, Moms Clean Air Force joined with healthcare professionals, corporate leaders, religious leaders, community members, state air quality managers, recreation groups, environmental groups and many others to tell the Environmental Protection Agency that we support its proposed cleaner gasoline and tailpipe emissions standards, also known as “Tier 3.” …
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Tier 3: Which Is Better – Clean Or Dirty?
Sometimes it takes a mom to point out the obvious: CLEAN is better than DIRTY That’s especially true when it comes to the dirty emissions from cars and fuel that affect our children’s lungs each and every day. We’re very glad that the EPA has proposed a new Tier 3 program. Not the most memorable …
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A Toothless Law On Toxic Chemicals
This article was written by the New York Times editorial board: It would be hard to design a law more stacked against the regulators than the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act, which is supposed to ensure the safety of thousands of chemicals used in household products and manufacturing. It is long past time for Congress …
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Utah's Air Gets A Failing Grade
This is a press release from Utah Moms for Clean Air: The American Lung Association just released their annual State of the Air Report and Utah once again earned an “F” grade for air quality in all of it’s major population centers across the state. Box Elder, Cache, Davis, Salt Lake, Utah and Weber all received …
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