Annual reports aren’t always the most compelling reads, but our 2024 report tells a truly incredible story of strong advocacy, an engaged membership fired up to sign petitions and offer EPA testimony, and an administration amenable to protecting families from air pollution, dangerous climate emissions, and toxic chemicals.
Though the year did not end on a high note—the incoming administration has loudly signaled its disdain for environmental issues, including disbelief that climate change is a real threat to human life—our annual report will give you hope and is well worth a look.
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Here are just a few highlights from 2024, a year of history-making clean air and climate progress and strong advocacy against the toxic plastics industry.
- From January to April, we celebrated a deluge of regulatory wins—enabled by Moms intense engagement in EPA hearings in 2023—including stronger oil and gas methane protections, soot pollution standards, clean car and truck standards, chemical manufacturing rules, Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, and power plant protections.
- We continued to support EPA’s Clean School Bus Program, with our Moms on the ground linking school districts to congressional offices and EPA. By the end of the year, more than 12,500 zero-emissions electric school buses had been awarded, ordered, delivered, or were operating in school districts across the country.
- We also continued to educate the public and our elected officials about the dangers of “advanced recycling”—a misleading term coined by the petrochemical industry for the practice of burning plastic—and saw several proposed “advanced recycling” facilities stalled or canceled in communities where we work, including Point Township, Pennsylvania, and Youngstown, Ohio.
- And we supported the development of two new congressional resolutions centering children’s well-being in a changing climate: the Resolution on Children and Extreme Weather and the first-of-its-kind Protecting Latina Maternal and Infant Health Resolution introduced during Hispanic and Latino Heritage Month.
Check out our Annual Report to read more about these achievements as well as our incredible events, our efforts around climate and mental health, our environmental justice programs, and our plans for 2025.
We have so much work ahead of us. There is no way to sugarcoat what lies ahead. But we will continue the fight. I look forward to sharing our efforts and our wins a year from now with our 2025 annual report.