This was written by Aidan Goldberg, Moms Clean Air Force’s fall communications intern.
Hazel Chandler is unstoppable. At nearly 80 years old, she has spent her life fighting for a safe and healthy climate, and she’s not done yet. In a moving Arizona Republic profile highlighting Hazel’s incredible contributions to clean air and climate progress, she urges people to fight back against the latest environmental threat: the Trump administration’s attempts to roll back the 2009 Endangerment Finding, the legal foundation of EPA’s ability to regulate climate pollution. In true Hazel fashion, she even testified before the agency last month from hospice.
The public comment period for the Endangerment Finding repeal is open until September 22, and there’s still time to join Hazel and tell the Trump EPA to keep doing its job!
Tell Administrator Zeldin: Cutting Climate Pollution Is Essential for Our Families’ Health
In other news
- Editorial Manager Alexandra Zissu authors a piece in the Times Union detailing how climate change in the Hudson Valley has altered her and her kids’ experiences of the natural world around them.
- The Cool Down publishes an article describing the risk of orphan oil and gas wells around the country, quoting Senior National Field Director Patrice Tomcik and describing Moms Clean Air Force’s work with partners to help identify and plug these wells.
- Ohio River Valley Field Organizer Rachel Meyer shares her fears with The New Lede and Environmental Health News about the health risks her six-year-old daughter could face if the Department of Defense’s moratorium on incinerating PFAS is rescinded.
- Rachel is also quoted in the Philadelphia Inquirer about the stress caused by hazardous air pollution from a Shell plastics plant blanketing her community in Western Pennsylvania.
- In a letter to the editor at the Nantucket Current, Senior Petrochemicals Analyst Cynthia Palmer writes about the prevalence and danger of microplastics.
- Celerah Hewes, National Field Manager, is quoted in another article in The Cool Down about the EPA Administrator’s decision to push back deadlines for oil and natural gas companies to reduce methane pollution.
- In El Tiempo Latino, the Iowa Field Organizer for Moms Clean Air Force and EcoMadres, Karin Stein, explains that Latino communities disproportionately live near sources of pollution.
- Fabiola Bedoya, Moms and EcoMadres’ Arizona Field Organizer, is featured in a Jambalaya News piece regarding heat-related illness, citing a Moms Clean Air Force article.
Honorable mentions
Over the past few weeks, Moms also earned mentions in Prensa Arizona, The Cool Down, Monadnock Ledger-Transcript, and Mountain Journal.
Tell Administrator Zeldin: Cutting Climate Pollution Is Essential for Our Families’ Health