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Green Enough? New Book Helps Clear Up Confusion
Check out our review of a new book by Leah Segedie called Green Enough: Eat Better, Live Cleaner, Be Happier (All Without Driving Your Family Crazy!). Great ideas for green living!
How Much Asthma Does Traffic Pollution Cause in Your City?
Learn how traffic pollution causes asthma, adding to longstanding health concerns about living, working, and playing near traffic-related air pollution.
10 Questions to Ask Politicians About Climate Change
Do you know where your politicians stand on climate change? Here are 10 questions we can all ask our politicians so we can make informed voting decisions.
Indigenous Communities Left Out of Clean Air Wins
Indigenous communities and communities of color are disproportionately affected by the harms of air pollution, and often excluded from the health benefits of environmental progress.
Ask Mom Detective: How Do I Know If I Have Toxic Mold?
As much of the country transitions from a wet winter into a likely wetter spring, Mom Detective shares tips to identify toxic mold in your home—and then clean it up.
Moms Make News: Cleaner Trucks for Healthier Kids
Read the latest news from Moms Clean Air Force staff and members in Pennsylvania, Texas and Washington, DC.
Sources: Climate Change and Latinos
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Moms Make News: A Mother’s Promise
Read the latest news from Moms Clean Air Force staff and members in Colorado, Michigan, Mississippi, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Washington, DC.
Petrochemical Pollution
WHAT WE’RE WORKING ON The overproduction of plastics and other petrochemicals causes great harm to our health and to our climate. But we have a chance to address the harms of the plastics crisis on a worldwide scale. An intergovernmental committee organized …
My Family’s Health Suffers From Truck Pollution
A Texas woman tells us why her family needs the strongest possible regulations to reduce deadly pollution from heavy-duty trucks
Drought, Conservation, and Our Children
“By 2040, it is estimated that one in four children will be living in areas with extreme water shortages.” Learn what you can do about living in a region with “megadrought.”