My nephew Eliot is a rock star in my book (not that I’m biased or anything). Eliot submitted this cartoon and won the Yahara River Writers Top Ten Award  for his creation (an event sponsored by Greater Dane County TAG Network). At age 11 he gets it. He understands that vehicle exhaust is the leading source of …

On Monday, Shellbie Johnson, four years old, began to have trouble breathing. Her wheezing quickly turned into a full blown asthma attack. Every mother of a child with asthma knows that heart-stopping sound, as a child struggles to fill her lungs with air. Struggles to stay alive. Sarah Johnson raced her toddler to the emergency …

Asthma is the most chronic childhood disease. According to the Center For Disease Control (CDC): Over 7.1 million U.S. children under age 18 (14%) have ever been diagnosed with asthma; 7.0 million children still have asthma (10%). Boys (15%) were more likely than girls (13%) to have ever been diagnosed with asthma. Non-Hispanic black children …

Moms Clean Air Force ha creado un libro electrónico gratis llamado Factores desencadenantes del asma: una guía para padres, maestros, médicos y enfermeros. El asma es una epidemia nacional. Cerca de 26 millones de estadounidenses viven con asma, ¡incluyendo 7 millones de niños! Aunque podemos controlar algunos de los detonantes del asma en nuestros hogares, …

Moms Clean Air Force has created a free e-book called, ASTHMA TRIGGERS: A Guide for Parents, Teachers, Doctors and Nurses. Asthma is a national epidemic. Nearly 26 million Americans live with asthma — including 7 million children!

This cartoon by Jen Sorensen originally appeared on Daily Kos: TELL PRESIDENT OBAMA: BREAK THE CLIMATE PARALYSIS

This was written by Dr. Evelyn Montalvo-Stanton for NBC Latino: Some people celebrate spring when the first daffodils appear in their yards; my equinox arrives via itchy eyes and runny noses of allergy-sufferers in my clinic. Just like the first frost evokes new flu viruses, and May’s lengthening sun rays bring heat stroke to mind, as …

This is the testimony from Chicago resident, Laura Sebransky at public hearings on the Tier 3 Vehicle Emission and Fuel Standards: My name is Laura Sabransky. I live in the city of Chicago, and I have asthma. I urge the EPA to enact the long overdue standards that will clean up gasoline and reduce smog-forming …

It’s hard to believe the first federal air pollution legislation was the Air Pollution Act of 1955. Fifty-eight years later, the United States—and the world—are still struggling to come to terms with the importance of preserving the quality of the air we breathe. Air Quality Awareness Week is on the calendar for April 29 through …

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