This summer, our pollinator garden reminded me that our efforts in these times matter. The possibility that something beautiful might get to fly because we kept showing up even when everything seemed to be falling apart—isn’t that worth the effort?
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Dominique Browning Remembers Gloria Steinem in People
As the world mourns the loss of Gloria Steinem, Moms’ Dominque Browning tells People magazine about the once-in-a-lifetime experience of convening a climate talking circle at the women’s rights movement leader’s home.
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What EPA Has Done Lately: Real but Unbelievable Environmental Attacks by the Trump Administration, June–August 2026
While families across the country endured global-warming-fueled record-breaking heat waves, deadly flooding, and dangerous wildfire smoke, the Trump-Zeldin EPA’s attacks on public health and environmental protections nevertheless continued unabated this summer.
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Almeta Cooper and Dr. Lisa Patel in USA Today: “We Protect Children From Concussions, Why Not Heat?”
In today’s USA Today, Moms’ Almeta Cooper and Dr. Lisa Patel argue that heat illness in young athletes is a problem that is persistent, poorly understood—and entirely preventable.