Our Co-founder and Director Dominique Browning was recently honored as a “BreatheLife Voice” by the World Health Organization (WHO), joining a global contingent of changemakers who call attention to the dangers of air pollution—and drive clean air solutions.
Help us celebrate this achievement by taking action in Dominique’s honor today. Join Moms in telling Congress to protect families from the health harms of toxic air pollution from the plastic and petrochemical industry.
Tell Congress: Protect Families From the Plastics and Petrochemical Industry
Dominique has been working tirelessly for more than a decade to ring the alarm about the outsize threat that dirty air poses to infants and children; their still-developing hearts, lungs, brains, and endocrine systems are uniquely vulnerable to pollution.
In recent years, she’s been a trailblazer in connecting the dots between the growing plastics and petrochemical industry and toxic air pollution: “Everyone in the world is impacted by the petrochemicals and plastics crises we are facing,” she wrote in a statement acknowledging the BreatheLife Voice honor.
From extraction, processing, and production to transport, use, and incineration, every step of the plastics supply chain releases toxic pollution, exposing families across the country to dangerous—and even deadly—industrial chemicals, like benzene, cadmium, dioxins, and vinyl chloride. These chemicals can cause neurodevelopmental disorders, asthma, allergies, reproductive harm, endocrine disruption, and cancer.
It’s time for our government to protect us from plastics industry pollution, to halt the buildout of new plastics facilities, and to transition away from single-use plastics.
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