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 year National Park Week kicks off on April 20th and runs through April 28th. Throughout the week, the National Park Service and the National Park Foundation invite you to discover (or re-discover) the natural beauty of our nation's national parks. An even better reason to visit? From Monday, April 22–Friday, April 26, the national …

This is a guest post written by Rebecca Cheatham, Clean Air Carolina: First, the good news. On Friday, December 14th, the Environmental Protection Agency strengthened the annual air quality standard for fine particulate matter to 12 micrograms per cubic meter of air (12 µg/m3). This was the result of much pressure on the administration to revise standards …

This was written by Dr. Jeff Masters, co-founder of the Weather Underground. This post originally posted on Wunderblog, via Climate Progress: It was another year of incredible weather extremes unparalleled in American history during 2012. Eleven billion-dollar weather disasters hit the U.S., a figure exceeded only by the fourteen such disasters during the equally insane …

  Thank you to Sarah Gilliam and StarNews Online for this piece:  Doctors are busy people so when they take the time to speak out, we should pay attention. For over four years, citizens and groups have fought the permitting of a coal-burning cement plant and limestone mine proposed for the banks of the Northeast …

This post was written by Kelly Picarsic, Clean Air Carolina: Sixteen-year old Jeremy grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina and knows when pollution levels are high. “On the worst air quality days, I’ll just be outside for a little while and get mild wheezing just from walking.” Jeremy is one of 58,000 children living with …

This post was written by Sarah Gilliam, Coordinator for the Stop Titan Action Network: Never doubt the potential of a determined individual. This can certainly be said about one mom living in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. Danielle Richardet and her three children–Chase, Claire and Henry–walk the beach and pick up cigarette butts, which are the most …

Earlier today, the Senate DEFEATED Senator Inhofe’s attempt to kill an important EPA clean air safeguard, 53 to 46. Thank you—your hard work helped defeat Inhofe’s outrageous bill. Your support of the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards—historic clean air safeguards 21 years in the making—made this victory happen. I cannot thank you enough for writing …

This letter to EPA Administrator, Lisa Jackson from US Mayors on "front lines of protecting public health" express "strong support" for Mercury and Air Toxics Standards for Power Plants. We're in great company in protecting clean air. Many thanks to these Mayors for fighting so hard for our children! Lisa Jackson Administrator Environmental Protection Agency Ariel …

This post was written by Kelly Picarsic for Clean Air Carolina: NC state leaders returned to Raleigh on May 16 for the 2012 short legislative session. One of the first bills introduced was HB952, State Air Toxics Program Reforms. Established in 1989 to protect public health, the program monitors air toxins at industrial facilities around the …