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 …
