In 2025, you relied on Moms to decipher the firehose of misinformation coming out of the Trump White House and EPA. English and Spanish readers alike turned to our resources to parse the health impacts of major weather events, to get the real story on the scam that is plastics recycling, and to learn exactly how the President and EPA Head Lee Zeldin are working to defund programs and roll back regulations that protect our health and the environment.
Tell Congress: Hold Zeldin Accountable for Corrupting EPA’s Mission
Education is a cornerstone of Moms’ mission, and resources are our primary tool for sharing crucial information with communities, lawmakers, and the press. These are the resources—four fact sheets plus a timeline—you turned to again and again in 2025:
1. Health Impacts of Hurricanes
At the end of May, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicted above-normal hurricane activity for the 2025 Atlantic Hurricane season, which runs from June 1 to November 30. Although most of the summer was surprisingly quiet, Hurricane Melissa ripped through the Atlantic basin in late October, costing more than $10 billion in damages and resulting in over 100 fatalities. In preparation and response, people across the country read our Health Impacts of Hurricanes fact sheet, which covers risks such as carbon monoxide poisoning, cardiovascular events, and mental health concerns. Available in English and Spanish, this quick read outlines how to stay safe before, during, and after hurricanes.
2. El efecto de la contaminación por tubos de escape sobre nuestra salud
Todas las hojas informativas de Moms Clean Air Force se publican en inglés y español, y esto es por una buena razón. Las hojas informativas en español no solo apoyan el trabajo de EcoMadres, nuestro programa de participación con la comunidad latina, sino que también son muy populares entre el público en general. Este año, una de las favoritas entre nuestra audiencia de habla hispana fue La contaminación del aire por tubos de escape sobre nuestra salud, que aborda los impactos en la salud y las implicaciones de justicia ambiental de la contaminación generada por automóviles, camiones y autopistas. También destacaron La contaminación por productos petroquímicos y nuestra salud, y Los impactos de los huracanes sobre la salud, dos recursos ampliamente consultados por nuestra audiencia de habla hispana.
All Moms’ fact sheets are published in English and Spanish—for good reason. Spanish-language fact sheets not only support the work of EcoMadres, our Latino engagement program, and are popular with Moms audience in general. This year, readers particularly relied on the Spanish-language version of Moms’ Tailpipe Pollution and Our Health fact sheet, which touches on health impacts and environmental justice implications of pollution from cars, trucks, and highways. (Our Spanish-language Plastics and Our Health and Health Impacts of Hurricanes fact sheets were also extremely popular among visitors to our website.)
3. The First 100 Days of Making Emissions Great Again: A MEGA Mess
With an unprecedentedly devastating year for federal climate protections, it is no surprise to find our timeline, The First 100 Days of Making Emissions Great Again: A MEGA Mess, was the third most popular resource on our website. This long timeline details climate policy attacks, agency purges, and pollution protection rollbacks from President Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, along with the horrific impacts of undermining air, climate, and toxic chemical protections.
4. The Problem With Plastics Recycling
A perennial favorite, The Problem With Plastics Recycling, continued to get clicks in 2025 from readers looking to distinguish recycling facts from falsities. It’s worth a read if you also want to know more about what we’re up against. Industry has been promoting recycling as the solution to the plastics crisis for decades. But the reality is it’s not the savior we have been told it is. We need systemic, structural changes that reduce plastics production and cut toxic air pollution at every point in the plastics supply chain.
5. Wildfires and Your Health
2025 was a year marked by catastrophic global-warming-fueled wildfires. In January, the Eaton and Palisades Fires wreaked havoc in Los Angeles, while this summer smoke from summer Canadian fires plagued the Midwest and East Coast with poor air quality and hazy skies. Readers turned to our Wildfires and Your Health fact sheet in droves to learn more about the dangerous pollutants in smoke and how to protect themselves and their children.
Education is important, but at Moms, we thrive on turning knowledge into meaningful action. Join us in calling on Congress to hold EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin accountable for the mega mess he’s created by actively working to ramp up not just climate pollution and its related extreme weather, but also harmful air pollutants from tailpipes, smokestacks, and plastics facilities.
Tell Congress: Hold Zeldin Accountable for Corrupting EPA’s Mission