On May 8, 2025, Maternal & Child Health in a Dangerous Climate: The Impact of Air Pollution, Plastics, & Heat on Women of Color convened policy experts, healthcare professionals, environmental advocates, and media voices to establish the current state of maternal health …
Global Warming’s Impact on Black & Brown Mothers
Did you know that Black and Brown mothers and children in the U.S. are three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than white women?
La contaminación de aire, el calor extremo y la salud de madres afroamericanas
Este recurso ha sido verificado por expertos en políticas, utilizando las últimas investigaciones científicas. Encuentre todas nuestras fuentes en los enlaces a continuación. Si bien el embarazo es un período de extrema delicadeza para todas las embarazadas, las madres afroamericanas en Estados …
Tell Administrator Zeldin: Cutting Climate Pollution Is One of EPA’s Most Important Jobs
The mission of the Environmental Protection Agency is to protect human health and the environment, but the new EPA Administrator, Lee Zeldin, is poised to stop regulating the greenhouse gas emissions responsible for putting our weather on steroids and threatening all people’s …
Tell Congress: Freezing Federal Funding Hurts Children
The Constitution gives Congress the “power of the purse.” And yet funds passed by Congress—and benefitting families nationwide—have now been frozen by the Trump administration without congressional approval. La Constitución otorga al Congreso el “poder monetario”. Y, sin embargo, los fondos aprobados …
Stephanie Reese, Remarks at EPA Protects Us All Press Conference, February 6, 2025
By: Stephanie Reese, Director of Strategic Implementation and Justice, Moms Clean Air Force Date: February 6, 2025 Event: Senator Ed Markey’s EPA Protects Us All Press Conference Just two weeks into Trump’s presidency, we are witnessing the dismantling of diversity, equity, inclusion, and …
Stephanie Reese, Remarks at EVNoire’s Annual EV Day at the Virginia Capitol, January 29, 2025
By: Stephanie Reese, Director of Strategic Implementation and Justice, Moms Clean Air Force Date: January 29, 2025 Event: EV Day at the Virginia Capitol, Richmond, VA Good morning, everyone. Thank you, EV Noire, for the invitation to speak today at this momentous …
Air Pollution, Extreme Heat, and Black Maternal Health
While pregnancy is a time of extreme sensitivity for all, Black mothers in the U.S. experience drastically high maternal and infant mortality rates—they’re three times more likely to die from a pregnancy-related cause than white women. In addition to this stark inequity, air pollution exacerbates existing health disparities, disproportionately affecting Black mothers and their infants in the U.S.
Letter to the Office of Management and Budget About Advancing Public Participation With the Federal Government, May 17, 2024
As part of the Association of American Medical Colleges’ Multisector Partner Group, Moms Clean Air Force offered input on and endorsed this letter. Date: May 17, 2024 To: Cherie Klein The Office of Management and Budget Executive Office of the President 725 …
Stephanie Reese, Remarks at Press Conference Celebrating Electric School Bus Investment in Fairfax County, April 17, 2024
By: Stephanie Reese, Director of DEIJ and Strategic Implementation, Moms Clean Air Force Date: April 17, 2024 Event: EPA Celebration of $16.5 Million Investment in Electric School Buses in Fairfax County, VA Hello, I’m Stephanie Reese, a Director with Moms Clean Air …
Tell Congress: Burning Plastic Is Not a Solution to the Plastics Crisis
“Advanced recycling,” a.k.a. burning plastic, is not a solution to the plastic pollution crisis. It is dangerous. Any legislation before Congress promoting “advanced recycling” would mean the proliferation of plastics-burning facilities across the country—and it would exempt these incinerators from air pollution …
Tell Congress: Support Families Displaced by Climate Disaster
Around the world, climate change is intensifying extreme weather events and changing the land we live on. Scientists anticipate that as the planet continues to heat up, more and more people will be forced to leave the places they call home. En …