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 …

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

Last week, Moms Clean Air Force bloggers and friends fanned out across the country to ask retailers to “Mind the Store.” The new campaign, from MCAF partner Safer Chemicals Healthy Families, aims to get top retailers to take toxic chemicals off their shelves. I was honored to be part of this group. In the days since I …

WATCH our own Michigan Moms Clean Air Force organizer, Wibke Heymach testify at the March 25th Energy Forum in Detroit. LEARN why we need to include healthcare costs, along with our children’s health, in the discussion about our energy future. HELP FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE

This is an interview with Niles Urry, editor of EnviroNews USA, and filmmaker of Breathless in Zion. This was written by Cherise Udell and Bridget James: MCAF: Niles, what originally inspired you to create a document of the story of "Utah's Battle for Clean Air"? Niles: If you want to know the honest truth, it was …

There are a plethora of ads put forth by oil companies to promote the "social good" they are doing. As a writer on environmental issues, I happen to be aware of the flip side of the story. So while British Petroleum pushes their “Voices from the Gulf” tourism travelogues about how great it is to …

I joined with nearly 50,000 protesters who endured freezing winds to express their fervent desire that President Obama take bold action on climate change. For my husband and I, the Forward on Climate rally was a culmination of years of living a green lifestyle. It was time to move beyond the recycling bin and compost pile …

Forward On Climate Rally, the largest climate rally in American history, is on Sunday, February 17. Moms Clean Air Force, Climate Parents and thousands of Americans will head to Washington, D.C. to make Forward on Climate a huge historic event. Please join us in telling the President it's time to fire up a clean energy …

Every now and then you meet a person…a woman…an activist…a mother, who takes your breath away. You know instantly that this whirlwind of energy will stop at practically nothing to ensure that her cause stands front and center. She doesn’t fight because someone’s begged her. She doesn’t need an ovation from adoring fans. She doesn’t …

I don’t watch the news that often. I find most of the stories depressing and a sad commentary on the state of the world– something that I’m already well aware of. This week was a different story. Last Wednesday night I watched the news from start to finish. Let me back up for a minute …