By: Rachel Meyer, Ohio River Valley Field Organizer, Moms Clean Air Force Date: July 15, 2025 About: Resolution Against Plastic Pyrolysis To: Luzerne County, PA Infrastructure Committee My name is Rachel Meyer. I am the Ohio River Valley Field Organizer for Moms Clean Air …
Millions of parents are fighting to protect kids from pollution — and the mom who started the movement isn’t resting: ‘We’re going to get this done’
Plastic-to-fuel plant planned for the UKV draws ‘greenwashing’ concerns
Letter to the PA Department of Environmental Protection About Alterra Energy’s Air Quality Permit Application, June 16, 2025
Date: June 16, 2025 To: Shailesh Patel, P.E. Environmental Group Manager Air Quality Program DEP Northeast Regional Office 2 Public Square Wilkes-Barre, PA 18701-1915 Dear Environmental Group Manager Patel, Thank you for this opportunity to comment on Alterra Energy’s proposed air quality …
‘Hero’ mom’s quick thinking catches corporation releasing toxic pollution: ‘Never underestimate how much power you have’
Testimony: Amanda Rowoldt, Alterra Energy Permits, May 28, 2025
By: Amanda Rowoldt, Ohio Organizer, Moms Clean Air Force Date: May 28, 2025 About: Denying Alterra’s renewal permit to install and operate air emission sources To: Ohio EPA My name is Amanda Rowoldt and I live in Franklin County in Dublin, Ohio …
A Mom’s Guide to Clean Air with Amanda Rowoldt
Letter: U.S. activists call on Dept. of Energy to revoke $182 million IRG loan guarantee
Setting plastic on fire is NOT recycling!
Right now, the plastics industry is trying to rebrand “plastics incineration” as so-called “advanced recycling.” Here’s the problem: burning plastic doesn’t make it just go away. It turns our plastic pollution problem into an air pollution problem.
¿Reciclaje avanzado o simplemente quemar plástico?
La industria del plástico está tratando cambiar el nombre de la incineración de plástico al “reciclaje avanzado”. Pero esta publicidad engañosa no cambia lo que es: la quema de plásticos.
¡Prender fuego al plástico NO es reciclar!
En este momento, la industria del plástico está tratando de cambiar el nombre de “incineración de plásticos” al llamado “reciclaje avanzado”. Aquí está el problema: quemar plástico no hace que desaparezca simplemente. Convierte nuestro problema de contaminación plástica en un problema de …
The Truth Behind the Plastics Industry’s Greenwashing
Burning plastics is not recycling. But the plastics industry is trying to convince us that it is because it wants to operate plastics incinerators without pollution controls. Communities across the country aren’t falling for it—and they’re fighting back. Residents of Follansbee (WV), …