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 …

This was written by MCAF Leadership Circle member Tina Beattie:  I recently spent a few days at an amazing conference — Tina Brown and Diane Von Furstenberg's Women in the World Summit – celebrating the work women are doing across the globe to impact women’s issues, global issues. Basking in the luminaries speeches was invigorating, …

This article is from Clean Energy Now: Environmental groups and concerned citizens are speaking out about a coal-fired power plant in Trenton that spread coal ash residue across the town on Wednesday morning. The ash, released by DTE’s Trenton Channel coal plant, which has repeatedly exceeded its stack emission limits, is loaded with carcinogens like …

This was written by Diane MacEachern for Moms Clean Air Force: At the U.S. – China Greener Consumption Forum on March 22nd, Lisa Jackson, the just retired Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), re-affirmed her strong support for laws and regulations that significantly reduce air pollution and reverse climate change. Speaking as a …

This is an editorial from the Toledo Blade, January 14, 2013: DTE Energy’s coal-fired power plant in Monroe releases far less air pollution now while generating more electricity. Yet the latest federal records show it is still high for mercury emissions, ranking ninth among the nation’s power plants. DTE is, at least, on the right …

“Our attitude is if you take something out of the Earth, you have a responsibility to give a little bit back to the Earth. So these are the right steps to take for our environment. But they’re also the right steps to take for our country" ~ President Barack Obama

I am one of those people who suffer when clean air rules are delayed. I have asthma and live just a couple of miles from a cement plant. The cement plant I live near in Oklahoma is classified as a High Priority Violator of the Clean Air Act and has been for many years. So …

STATEMENT BY EPA ADMINISTRATOR LISA P. JACKSON ANNOUNCING HER LEAVING CABINET AFTER STATE OF UNION "I want to thank President Obama for the honor he bestowed on me and the confidence he placed  in me four years ago this month when he announced my nomination as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. At the time …

This was written by Environmental Defense Fund’s Elena Craft, PhD. The extended holiday season (which seems to start as early as Halloween now!) gives us the opportunity to reflect upon what we are grateful for and have maybe even taken for granted. Things like family, friends, and good health. Fitting under the “good health” category, …

This was written by Shannon Baker-Branstetter and reposted from the Consumers Union blog, Our Green Energy Future: Recent reports confirm what many people already feel: industry’s releases of toxic pollution are disproportionately located in low-income communities and communities of color. According to a recent NAACP report Coal Blooded, nearly six million Americans live within three miles …