La industria del plástico está tratando cambiar el nombre de la incineración de plástico al “reciclaje avanzado”. Pero esta publicidad engañosa no cambia lo que es: la quema de plásticos.
¡Prender fuego al plástico NO es reciclar!
En este momento, la industria del plástico está tratando de cambiar el nombre de “incineración de plásticos” al llamado “reciclaje avanzado”. Aquí está el problema: quemar plástico no hace que desaparezca simplemente. Convierte nuestro problema de contaminación plástica en un problema de …
Moms Annual Summit on Plastics: A Health Crisis in Plain Sight
Moms Clean Air Force hosted our annual summit, A Health Crisis in Plain Sight: How plastics are poisoning our air, food, and bodies—and what we can do to protect our children’s future on April 3, 2025. This summit explored the latest research …
The Truth Behind the Plastics Industry’s Greenwashing
Burning plastics is not recycling. But the plastics industry is trying to convince us that it is because it wants to operate plastics incinerators without pollution controls. Communities across the country aren’t falling for it—and they’re fighting back. Residents of Follansbee (WV), …
Advanced Recycling or Just Burning Plastic?
The plastics industry is trying to give plastic incineration a makeover by calling it “advanced recycling.” But greenwashing the name doesn’t change what it is: burning plastic. When plastic is burned, it releases huge amounts of toxic chemicals that pollute our air …
Life Before the Clean Air Act
The U.S. has come a long way in cleaning up its air pollution since Republicans and Democrats worked together to pass the Clean Air Act in 1969. The Clean Air Act, along with EPA, protects our health from toxic pollution. But now, …
Why NOAA Matters to Moms
Federal cuts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which includes The National Weather Service, are troubling for families, schools, and people everywhere at a time when extreme weather is our new normal.
Burning plastics is NOT recycling
But the plastics industry is trying to convince us that it is because it wants to operate plastics incinerators without pollution controls. Communities across the country aren’t falling for it—and they’re fighting back. Residents of Follansbee (WV), Youngstown (OH), Columbia (MD), Eloy …
The EPA Isn’t Doing Its Job
New EPA administrator Lee Zeldin is actively working against clean air, clean water, and climate safeguards that people in the U.S. rely on. Dismantling pollution protections from power plants, rolling back safeguards against deadly soot and mercury, and gutting EPA research by …
EPA’s Zeldin Keeps Breaking Promises
Since he took over at EPA, Lee Zeldin has been putting industry interests over protecting our health.
Trump’s Attacks on Our Health
Did you watch Trump’s State of the Union? He said one thing, but here’s the reality of the cuts he and EPA administrator Zeldin are enacting.
Trump and EPA are Giving a Free Pass to Polluters
Rollbacks will allow more mercury—a highly toxic pollutant that comes from coal-fired power plants—to proliferate! This is a free pass to polluters. We need an EPA that will protect people, not polluters!