Moms Clean Air Force: Fighting Air Pollution & Climate Change

Moms Clean Air Force is a community of moms and dads united against air pollution – including the urgent crisis of our changing climate – to protect our children’s health.

We arm members with reliable information and solutions through online resources, articles, action tools and on-the-ground events.

Moms Clean Air Force is a special project of Environmental Defense Fund.

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Trump’s EPA Actions on Formaldehyde Can Be Summed Up in One Word: Corrupt

BY Moms Clean Air Force ON February 15, 2019

This is an excerpt from a post written by Richard Denison, senior scientist for EDF: Today, Heidi Vogt at the Wall Street Journal reported on the systematic efforts by the Trump Administration to derail chemical assessments under the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS). Decisions...

TOPICS: EPA, Politics, Pollution, Science, Toxics

Climate Change is the National Emergency

BY Dominique Browning ON February 14, 2019

No wall will hold back the rising seas. No wall will stop killer heat waves. No wall will keep out extreme weather. Climate change is the national emergency. Think of it this way: What would you do, if your doctor told you that you had...

TOPICS: MCAF News

Introducing Community Rx

BY Moms Clean Air Force ON February 14, 2019

This was written by Shakeila Stuckey James, Moms Clean Air Force Regional Field Manager: As the mom of two black girls and one black boy, I am deeply concerned about the disproportionate environmental health risks for African-American children. Black communities are more likely to be...

TOPICS: Activism, African-American Community, Air Pollution, Asthma, Children's Health, Environment, Georgia, Motherhood, North Carolina, Pollution, Social Justice

The Green New Deal is a Big Deal. Here’s Why.

BY Diane MacEachern ON February 11, 2019

The Green New Deal hit the US with the force of a Katrina-sized hurricane when it was unveiled last week – and yes, the comparison is fitting. The GND, as it’s being called, aims to eliminate the carbon emissions fueling climate change and the resulting...

TOPICS: Air Pollution, Children's Health, Clean Air Rules and Regulations, Climate Change, Coal, Environment, Heat and Extreme Weather, Natural Gas, Politics, Renewable Energy

Thank You For a Bold Green Resolution

BY Dominique Browning ON February 7, 2019

Moms Clean Air Force wholeheartedly supports the spirit, the vision and the ambition of the Green New Deal. We’re excited and impressed by its urgency and scope. And most of all, we are thrilled by the hope it has generated. Right now, the Green New...

TOPICS: Activism, Carbon Pollution, Climate Change, Politics

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