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  • Almeta Cooper Defends Strong Pollution Protections Before Congress

    Almeta Cooper, Moms Clean Air Force’s National Manager for Health Equity, testified before Congress in defense of EPA’s authority to set strong particle pollution standards.

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  • Protect Your Family From the Impacts of Flooding

    Climate change is affecting the intensity and frequency of precipitation, increasing flooding across the country. The best way to protect yourself, your family, and your home from floods is to prepare in advance, know what to do during a flood, and work quickly after floodwater recedes.

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  • Prepare your family for the health impacts of hurricanes

    Climate change is making hurricanes more intense and slower-moving. Hurricanes can affect our health in numerous ways, both short- and long-term. Learn more about how to prepare your family for the health impacts of hurricanes.

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  • New Podcast: A Plastic People

    Introducing A Plastic People: Petrochemicals, Climate Change, and Our Health, hosted by Osasenaga Idahor. Each episode discusses a facet of the plastics and the petrochemical industry and its impact on our daily life.

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  • Moms Celebrate One Year of the Inflation Reduction Act

    Moms Clean Air Force celebrates the first anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) — the Biden administration’s landmark climate and clean energy law.

    READ ABOUT THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THE IRA

  • Historic Climate Decision for Youth in Montana

    We support the youth of Montana and celebrate a momentous verdict in the youth-led constitutional climate lawsuit — Held v. State of Montana. Judges have sided with youth, agreeing that the failure to consider emissions and climate violates the state constitution.

    READ MORE ABOUT THE HISTORIC WIN

  • People Magazine Features Moms Clean Air Force

    People Magazine highlights the story of Moms Clean Air Force and founder Dominique Browning. The article explains how Moms Clean Air Force came to engage and mobilize “an impressive army of more than a million moms…” to fight climate pollution.

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  • Wildfire Smoke and Your Health

    Wildfires affect people in the immediate area of a fire, but they also send vast amounts of dangerous pollution into communities near and far.

    Learn how wildfire smoke affects your health and what steps you can take to protect your family.

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  • Moms Call on EPA to Ban Vinyl Chloride

    Almeta Cooper, Moms Clean Air Force National Manager for Health Equity, joined our partners at EPA Headquarters to call on the agency to ban the toxic chemical vinyl chloride. Together, we delivered more than 27,000 comments in support of a vinyl chloride ban.

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  • Moms testify in support of EPA Standards

    Please read testimony from Dominique Browning, Moms Clean Air Force’s Director and Co-Founder, in support of EPA’s new standards to limit carbon pollution from power plants.

    READ DOMINIQUE’S TESTIMONY

  • New EPA Report on Climate and Children’s Health

    EPA released a groundbreaking report on the health impacts of climate change on US children.

    “Climate Change and Children’s Health and Well-Being in the US” underscores the necessity of considering children’s well-being in every climate policy.

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  • What to Know About the Petrochemical Industry: Q & A

    Plastics are everywhere, and the industry that makes them is booming. The ubiquity of plastics and other petrochemicals comes at a steep cost to our health, especially for those living near production and processing facilities.

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  • EPA Awards $1 Billion in Electric School Bus Funding

    Moms Clean Air Force hit the road across the nation to advocate for reducing school children’s exposure to harmful diesel exhaust and climate pollution. We called for federal funding to upgrade old school buses to clean EV school buses, allotted to the school districts that need it the most.

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  • VIDEO: JULIANNE MOORE FOR MOMS CLEAN AIR FORCE

    “I remember when I was pregnant, my doctor told me not to eat tuna fish. It is contaminated with mercury. Mercury in food goes right to a baby’s brain. It damages the developing brains of fetuses…. When I was pregnant, I stopped eating tuna. But I never stopped to think about where all that poisonous mercury comes from. Mercury comes from air pollution.”

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Latest News

Clean Air Centers Help Communities Prepare for Bad Air

by Diane MacEachern

Clean air centers are popping up in communities threatened by dangerous air pollution. Does your community have one? If not, learn what you can do to keep your family safe.

Toxic Vinyl Chloride in Children’s Toys Must be Banned

by Cynthia Palmer

EPA said they would decide about vinyl chloride this fall. EPA needs to start the process of banning vinyl chloride ASAP-before time runs out.

Healthy and Clean Transportation is Possible

by Alexandra Zissu

Breathing tailpipe pollution can trigger asthma and damage our lungs, hearts, and brains. And vehicle exhaust contribute to climate change. Learn why we need strong tailpipe pollution protections and cleaner air for our children and our communities in our new fact sheet.

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