A record-breaking heat wave with temperatures 15 to 20 degrees above normal is steaming across much of the northeastern U.S. right now. This heat is exacerbating health-harming ground-level ozone pollution, commonly called smog.
Moms Tell EPA: Don’t Delay on Smog Protections
Ozone pollution, more commonly known as smog, is dangerous, and EPA has not updated federal protections for ozone since 2015. Progress on strengthening these protections can’t come fast enough for the families and communities living with the impacts of this pollution every day.
Mom fights air pollution in North Denver
“State of the Air” Report Finds Millions More People in the U.S. Live With Unhealthy Air
This year’s American Lung Association “State of the Air” report has once again found that the number of people living in U.S. counties with failing grades for unhealthy levels of air pollution is on the rise. Read the top takeaways from the 2024 report.
What Parents Need to Know About the Air Quality Index: An Interview With Dr. Lisa Patel
With summer approaching, we caught up with pediatrician and Stanford professor Lisa Patel to learn more about updates to the AQI and how parents and caregivers should be thinking about air pollution, wildfire smoke, and children’s health.
Neglected and exposed: Toxic air lingers in a Texas Latino community, revealing failures in state’s air monitoring system
Testimony: Moms Clean Air Force, National Environmental Youth Advisory Council, March 2024
By: Moms Clean Air Force Date: March 2024 About: Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OA–2024–0043 To: Environmental Protection Agency The NEYAC was established to provide guidance on addressing a range of environmental issues as they relate to youth. Moms Clean Air Force is particularly concerned about …
Testimony: Karin Stein, EPA Good Neighbor Rule, March 4, 2024
By: Karin Stein, Iowa Field Organizer, Moms Clean Air Force Date: March 4, 2024 About: EPA Good Neighbor Rule Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2023-0402 To: Environmental Protection Agency Good morning: My name is Karin Stein. I am the Iowa Organizer for Moms Clean …
Testimony: Giovanna Rossi, EPA Good Neighbor Rule, March 4, 2024
By: Giovanna Rossi, New Mexico Field Organizer, Moms Clean Air Force Date: March 4, 2024 About: EPA Good Neighbor Rule Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2023-0402 To: Environmental Protection Agency Thank you so much for the opportunity to testify this morning. My name is …
Testimony: Hazel Chandler, EPA Good Neighbor Rule, March 4, 2024
By: Hazel Chandler, Arizona Field Organizer, Moms Clean Air Force Date: March 4, 2024 About: EPA Good Neighbor Rule Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2023-0402 To: Environmental Protection Agency Thank you for the opportunity to testify. My name is Hazel Chandler, and I am …
Supreme Court weighs blocking a federal plan to cut smog pollution
Shame on Justice Kavanaugh: Our Children’s Health Is “A Wash”?
The Good Neighbor Rule helps those of us living downwind from states with coal plants—and the Supreme Court may be poised to overturn it.