Author: Moms Clean Air Force

This post was written by William Peduto for Pittsburgh Post-Gazette  Last week the U.S. Senate held hearings on the Environmental Protection Agency’s new Mercury and Air Toxic Standards, which mandate nationwide reductions of dangerous emissions of mercury, lead, arsenic and acid gases. The rule has...

This post was written by Tom Kenworthy for Climate Progress: At the Wall Street Journal’s recent ECO:nomics conference, the chief executive of Atlas Energy LP was asked how fracking had become a four-letter word. Edward E. Cohen’s response: “I think when we talk about the...

This article originally posted at the Charlotte Observer: This is a letter sent to Gov. Bev Perdue by Dr. Larry Raymond, chair of Medical Advocates for Healthy Air, on behalf of scores of medical professionals from around the state: As North Carolina medical professionals, we are writing...

The EPA’s long-awaited Mercury and Air Toxics Standards–which will protect us from toxic mercury spewing from some coal-fired power plants–are now under attack in Congress. Senator James Inhofe (R-Oklahoma) has filed a Congressional Review Act to kill the rule. This would make it impossible for...

This is a post written by Kristen Laine for the Appalachian Mountain Club’s, Great Kids, Great Outdoors: “Pollution, pollution,” Virgil warbles in tandem with Tom Lehrer, the musical parodist from the 1960s, coming into our kitchen on YouTube. I remember the satirical song from my...