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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Getting Kids Involved in Protecting Nature

BY Marcia G. Yerman ON December 14, 2018

The Living Planet Report of 2018 conducted by The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) focuses on global biodiversity. This new report garners insights from over four dozen authorities in the fields of conservation, policy, and the world of academia. Very much like the conclusions drawn from the IPCC findings, the...

TOPICS: Animals, Climate Change, Environment, Schools

Diversity Strengthens Climate Action For This Mom

BY Addie Fisher ON December 13, 2018

“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” – Maya Angelou Diverse Representation I am a young black woman, and I am just one of many sharing the message that taking action...

TOPICS: Activism, African-American Community, Air Pollution, Asthma, Children's Health, Climate Change, Motherhood, Social Justice, Texas

Our Children Need Health Protections Strengthened, Not Rolled Back

BY Moms Clean Air Force ON December 12, 2018

This post is written by Rev. Dr. Ambrose Carroll, Green the Church Co-Founder. It first appeared in Successful Black Parenting (used with permission): Today, being Black in America is dangerous. My wife and I don’t want our children to worry about their survival. We want them to run,...

TOPICS: African-American Community, Carbon Pollution, Children's Health, Clean Air Rules and Regulations, Coal, EPA, Mercury Poisoning, Politics, Pollution, Social Justice

EPA Enforcement is Declining Across Every U.S. Region

BY Ronnie Citron-Fink ON December 12, 2018

Trump’s EPA is appalling. It’s retreat from protecting our families from pollution has already launched a process to sabotage and ultimately destroy our Mercury and Air Toxics Standards. These are protections that keep mercury, a terrible poison, from harming our babies’ brains. Under the leadership of Andrew Wheeler,...

TOPICS: Air Pollution, Children's Health, Clean Air Rules and Regulations, Climate Change, EPA, Ozone, Politics, Pollution, Science

Interview With Dr. Gredia Huerta Montanez, Environmental Health Pediatrician

BY Moms Clean Air Force ON December 11, 2018

This is an interview with Dr. Gredia Huerta Montanez, an environmental health pediatrician in Puerto Rico and a member of the EPA’s Office of Children’s Health Protection Advisory Committee: Dr. Huerta Montanez, can you please tell us about the work you do as an environmental...

TOPICS: Children's Health, Clean Air Rules and Regulations, Climate Change, Heat and Extreme Weather, Latino Community, Science

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