What a wild Mother’s Day coming up. You know that emoji of a woman with the top of her head blowing up? That’s how I’ve been feeling every week during the first few months of this administration. (Don’t worry, I’ll survive! Practicing resilience here.)
This president and his EPA chief, Lee Zeldin, are trying to gut, cripple, dismantle, cancel, and otherwise destroy all the clean air, climate, and toxic chemical protections we’ve fought so hard for more than a decade to achieve. But Moms are not backing down. We’re holding the line more fiercely than ever.
And we can’t do it alone. We need your support.
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Here is what we’re fighting against. This is what Trump and Zeldin want—and I mean this literally, though it is hard to believe:
- No more air pollution controls.
- No more protections against mercury from coal plants—mercury, a neurotoxin that breaks the developing architecture of fetal and toddler brains!
- No more state bans on toxic chemicals, like PFAS, that cause cancers and disrupt our hormone systems.
- No more controls on climate emissions—just let that methane and carbon soar!
- No more renewable energy, and no more clean energy job opportunities that support our families.
The list goes on.
I am not giving it all up—and I know you aren’t either. We will not lose the progress we have made. Moms are fighting this destruction at EPA and in the halls of Congress. This administration doesn’t have a single moral justification for dismantling protections that are helping our health.
Moms are pragmatic warriors. We want to get things done. We want to keep moving this country in the right direction. And we are still making progress at the state level: electric school buses are hitting the roads across the country; we celebrated the plugging of the 300th orphaned oil and gas well in Pennsylvania in March; and just last month, with the support of our very own Jayne Black, Wisconsin declared a statewide Green Schools Day to promote environmental awareness and action in schools.
I think about my children—and my grandson—every single day, and think about the kind of world I want for them. It is not this administration’s world of assaults on our health. Not a world of economic insecurity. Not a world of moral chaos.
I want a world of progress and growth, of goodness and kindness and doing what’s right by others. Don’t you?