A typical Earth Day celebration might entail planting a tree in your yard and teaching children about the importance of low-impact living by promoting the habits of "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle." But in Utah, the celebration of Earth Day has taken on a new spin, and it's anything but earth-friendly. Utah's Department of Oil, Gas and …

These days, there is a great deal of controversy about fracking and natural gas production. Many of us are fighting to ban fracking from our communities. Many more of us are living in places where drilling for gas has been going on for decades, with or without horizontal fracturing. Banning isn't a remote possibility–and neither is …

This is from MCAF’s newest partner, Union of Concerned Scientists:  The Clean Air Act  has a 40-year track record of cutting dangerous pollution to protect human health and the environment. Administered by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), this legislation has prevented thousands of premature deaths and hundreds of millions of cases of respiratory and cardiovascular disease. …

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 …

Moms Clean Air Force has joined a broad coalition of environmental, conservation and children’s health groups that petitioned the EPA to expand ozone monitoring in communities, near protected national parks and wilderness areas, and at oil and gas

The following are Mayor Bloomberg's remarks as delivered on December 6, 2012 at the New York Marriott Downtown: "Well good morning, everyone. Mr. Vice President, thank you. Your leadership and vision has helped inspire action on climate change, not just here in the United States, but by cities and countries and consumers around the world. …

  The year I graduated high school and drove a beat-up orange Datsun over the George Washington Bridge to discover a brave new world–college, was the same year the image above was shot. Across the country, images like this one became the environmental story that was sure to define our future. In this toxic soup …

In this video, Dr. Christopher Lillis, an internal medicine doctor based in Virginia, explains why soot is hazardous to our health, how it affects people, and the benefits of reducing soot pollution through new EPA regulations. Soot are minuscule particles emitted into the air by coal-fired power plants and other dirty sources of combustion. SUPPORT …

What a pregnant mom eats, drinks, and breathes can obviously affect her baby. We know this from studies of alcohol consumption and cigarette smoking, among other things. But how does air pollution affect her baby?

Recently the EPA finally released proposed revisions of its National Ambient Air Quality Standard for particle pollution. Fine particles, also known as soot, come from vehicle emissions, power plants, and fires (think grills, fireplaces, and wood stoves, as well as forest fires). This microscopic airborne pollution lodges deep in the lungs. The particles are too small, …