Moms Make News: Advanced Recycling, Veterans, Zeldin

When our Ohio Field Organizer, Amanda Rowoldt (pictured), saw black smoke coming out of the Freepoint Eco-Systems “advanced recycling” facility in Hebron, Ohio, last month, she knew something was wrong. The sudden onset of intense nausea, headache, and dizziness was her next clue.

The footage she captured of the plume caught the attention of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (OEPA), which is now looking into the incident. The Reporting Project covers the ongoing investigation and the facility’s history of air quality violations.

Tell Congress: Burning Plastic Is Not a Solution to the Plastics Crisis

In other news

Vedia Barnett, our former Georgia Field Organizer, penned an op-ed published in The Hill about the challenges veterans face after serving their country—including dirty air, mental health struggles, and deportation.
Common Dreams quotes Moms’ Director and Co-Founder Dominique Browning in a piece about EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin’s recommendation that the White House strike down the Endangerment Finding, which is an essential legal backbone to how our country cuts climate pollution from industrial sources.
Wisconsin Field Organizer Jayne Black wrote a letter to the editor of the Kenosha News, urging We Energies to invest in clean energy rather than build another methane gas plant.
In an op-ed published in the Daily Independent, Moms’ former Southwest Field Organizer, Ylenia Aguilar, makes the case for electric school buses, which she says are “driving Arizona’s future toward cleaner air.”
New Mexico Moms member Sarah Shaw also backs the transition from diesel to electric school buses in a letter to the editor of Santa Fe New Mexican.