Author: Moms Clean Air Force

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This was written by Casey Ivanovich. It originally published on Climate 411: Every March, Washington D.C. anxiously anticipates the arrival of the city’s world-famous cherry blossoms. Millions of people flood the National Mall each year to observe the “peak bloom” – defined by the National Park...

This article is written by Angeles Zaragoza, Member, Moms Clean Air Force and Maria Guzman, Community Health Educator, Pacoima Beautiful. It’s reposted from Impacting Our Future, an independent supplement by Mediaplanet to the Los Angeles Times Some days the air we breathe is so poor, our...

This was written by Richard Denison, Ph.D. The post originally appeared on EDF Health. EDF has learned from sources across the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that its political appointees are taking steps to systematically dismantle the agency’s ability to conduct broad risk reviews of chemicals and effectively...

A potentially deadly chemical found in common paint strippers, methylene chloride was proposed to be banned. But the ban was postponed late last year by Scott Pruitt’s EPA. Now it may be on hold indefinitely. The EPA says methylene chloride poses an unreasonable risk and the...