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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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

Climate Refugees In America

BY Marcia G. Yerman ON December 10, 2018

It’s been almost two months since, Hurricane Michael, the third-most intense Atlantic hurricane in the U.S., made landfall. It was painfully ironic that the damage which overwhelmed areas of Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia, also overshadowed the dire news of the most recent IPCC report....

TOPICS: Children's Health, Climate Change, Heat and Extreme Weather, Politics, Social Justice

Changes in Oklahoma, But It’s Still Fracked

BY Lisa Sharp ON December 10, 2018

I live in one of the reddest states in the country – Oklahoma. Every single county went to Trump in the 2016 presidential election. Many Oklahomans held little hope for change in the midterm elections, but there were some promising signs. Voter turnout for the...

TOPICS: Fracking, Natural Gas, Oklahoma, Politics

Health Experts Warn of Dire Impacts of Climate Change

BY Molly Rauch ON December 7, 2018

Climate change threatens the health of Americans and is having major impacts now, according to a recent report from the Lancet, one of the world’s leading medical journals. The annual report, called the Lancet Countdown, is a collaboration of researchers from 27 leading academic institutions,...

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

Denial Versus Pragmatic Solutions

BY Dominique Browning ON December 7, 2018

Martin Luther King’s dream of 100% racial equality was large, encompassing—and crystal clear in its vision of justice. He did not have a dream that in twenty-five years, racism would subside by 25%. I mention this because I reread King’s dream speech the day after...

TOPICS: Activism, African-American Community, Air Pollution, Children's Health, Climate Change, Economics, Politics, Social Justice

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