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WE HAVE MORE THAN 16,897 MISSOURI MEMBERS
Here’s what we’re working on in Missouri:
Moms Clean Air Force Missouri brings attention to issues and policies that impact clean air, climate change and children’s health. We fight for a world free of harmful chemicals in our air, water and food, so children can grow up healthy with every opportunity to thrive. We educate and activate moms and their families to work with local, state and federal leaders to advance clean air policies and climate solutions. We are building a community of moms who care by meeting with elected officials, organizing and attending local events, speaking at community meetings and press conferences, and serving as a media resource on behalf of our children’s and community’s health. By collectively speaking out against air pollution and climate change, we are creating a powerful force in Missouri that is rooted in the love we have for our children.
Right now, Missouri burns coal for more than 80 percent of its electricity. Missouri’s power plants produce toxins that poison our waters, and sulfur and other pollution that cause asthma and respiratory disease.
Moms Clean Air Force Missouri has collected petitions from hundreds of Missouri families, to make it clear to our elected officials that the health and future of Missouri’s children are more important than campaign contributions from dirty coal and other corporate polluters.
Specifically, Moms Clean Air Force Missouri is working hard to fight the Trump Administration’s attempt to repeal America’s Clean Power Plan. Under America’s Clean Power Plan, states would have considerable flexibility in deciding how to secure the required pollution reductions. This process would provide Missouri with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for clean air and clean energy. Along with a multitude of health benefits to Missouri residents, this transition to cleaner electricity would bring opportunity for thousands of new jobs in Missouri.
Despite the considerable health benefits of America’s Clean Power Plan, in October, 2015, Missouri joined 25 other states in a lawsuit opposing the Plan. Missouri’s then Attorney General announced his decision to join the lawsuit at a meeting of the Missouri Electric Coops.
In 2018, St. Louis was named a Climate Challenge winner in the American Cities Climate Challenge–an unprecedented opportunity for 25 ambitious cities to significantly deepen and accelerate their efforts to tackle climate change and promote a sustainable future for their residents.
Our Missouri chapter promotes strategies to cut carbon emissions in a way that protects both children’s health and the economy, and we believe that Missouri should implement energy policy that works for everyone.
Please join us in this fight for cleaner air and climate solutions in Missouri.
Moms Clean Air Force Programs in Missouri
Our Moms & Mayors program connects moms with their mayors and local leaders to improve children’s health and build resilient communities. We educate, empower and mobilize Moms in their hometowns to work with their local elected leaders to implement clean air strategies, reduce toxins in the community and take action on climate change. We also train Moms to join boards and commissions and urge them to run for office.
Our Baby Power program educates and engages expectant and new moms on our issues with the message: every baby has the power to make you want to change the world.
In addition to state-specific work, Moms Clean Air Force Missouri is supporting national campaigns:
Stopping the Rollbacks of Environmental Protections: We are working hard to oppose the assaults on our bedrock environmental laws by the Trump Administration and the EPA Administrator including:
- Climate Change: We are fighting the Trump Administration’s attempt to repeal America’s Clean Power Plan that sought to reduce carbon emissions, decrease dangerous co-pollutants, and achieve the goals of the Paris Climate Accord.
- Smog: We are opposing the Trump Administration’s EPA proposal to weaken national smog standards.
- Clean Cars: We are opposing the Trump Administration’s attempt to roll back sensible fuel-efficiency standards for cars and light trucks. The current clean car standards would prevent 6 billion metric tons of greenhouse gas pollution by 2025 and save American families $1.7 trillion in fuel costs.
- Mercury: We are opposing the attempt by the Trump Administration to loosen regulations that reduce the harmful mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants.
- Chemical Policy Reform: We are fighting to implement the Lautenberg Chemical Safety Act (2016) that keeps toxic chemicals out of the products we use every day.
- Natural Gas Pollution: We are opposing the Trump Administration’s attempt to roll back Federal methane rules for new sources, weakening the limits on the amount of methane pollution that the oil and gas industry is allowed to vent, leak and burn. We are demanding strong protections from methane, volatile organic compounds, and other harmful air pollutants associated with fracking and natural gas development.
- EPA Budget: We are fighting to ensure the EPA budget is fully funded, opposing the Trump Administration’s proposal to gut its budget by more than 25%.
Fighting to Make Climate Progress:
- Clean Energy: We are working to build support at the local, state and federal level to ensure that our energy future is renewable, clean, and healthy — for the sake of our children’s health.
- Tell Your Governor: Take the Lead on Climate Action: With America’s departure from the historic Paris Climate Agreement, the responsibility for climate action now falls on others: States, municipalities, businesses, universities and communities. With the federal government surrendering its chance to lead on climate action, our states must be as aggressive as possible in the effort to thwart global warming and protect the health of our children. Let your governor know that you demand climate action and you need them to take the lead.
Missouri’s electricity generation by source, 2017:
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Coal (79%)
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Nuclear (13%)
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Natural Gas (3%)
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Wind (2%)
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Other (3%)
According to the American Lung Association’s 2018 State of the Air report, Columbia-Moberly-Mexico, Missouri is tied for 1st for the cleanest U.S. city for ozone air pollution
The monetized value of diesel fine particle health impacts in Missouri per year is 1.7 billion dollars.
Missouri ranks tenth among U.S. states when it comes to carbon dioxide emissions from power plants
Roughly 5,795 asthma exacerbation attacks per year are a directly linked to coal fired power plant pollution in Missouri.
According to the American Lung Association’s 2018 State of the Air report, St. Louis County, Missouri received an F in ozone quality
116 cancer cases per million in Missouri are a direct result of inhaled diesel soot each year
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