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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Why Power Companies Want to Keep Mercury Standards

BY Molly Rauch ON October 15, 2018

Last week, the White House and EPA launched a dangerous proposal that would ease restrictions on mercury pollution. This was the first official move in a play to undermine the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards: a lifesaving, fully implemented, effective pollution prevention rule – one...

TOPICS: Clean Air Rules and Regulations, Coal, EPA, Mercury Poisoning

Climate Change is Coming for You and Your Children

BY Marcia G. Yerman ON October 10, 2018

The 2018 IPCC Special Report on Global Warming reads like a horror flick. The findings are frightening, especially if action is not taken. The study was presented in Incheon, Republic of Korea. The product was the result of the work of ninety-one scientists from forty countries. They...

TOPICS: Carbon Pollution, Children's Health, Clean Air Rules and Regulations, Climate Change, Heat and Extreme Weather, Politics

A Cry From the Heart

BY Dominique Browning ON October 9, 2018

What would you do, if your doctor told you that you had only several more years to get your cancer under control — or watch your disease become virtually untreatable? I’m pretty sure I’d pay attention. And if a doctor told me that about my...

TOPICS: Activism, California, Carbon Pollution, Cars and Trucks, Clean Air Rules and Regulations, Climate Change, Pennsylvania, Politics, Pollution

5 Things About Trump’s EPA Assault on the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards

BY Moms Clean Air Force ON October 3, 2018

This was written by Mandy Warner, senior manager of Climate and Air Policy at EDF: In 1990, while I was busy with kid priorities like learning to roller-skate, Congress was updating the Clean Air Act – kicking off a process to reduce mercury and other...

TOPICS: Air Pollution, Children's Health, Clean Air Act, Clean Air Rules and Regulations, EPA, Mercury Poisoning, Ozone, Politics, Pollution

My Toddler’s Mercury Poisoning from Tuna

BY Moms Clean Air Force ON October 3, 2018

This is a guest post by author, Ayelet Waldman: When my daughter Sophie was four years old, she was, in many ways, a Jewish mother’s dream. Her favorite lunch wasn’t pizza or hamburgers or chicken McNuggets. My little girl loved nothing better than a tuna sandwich...

TOPICS: Mercury Poisoning, Pollution

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