Dr. Shanna Swan, PhD, an award-winning environmental and reproductive epidemiologist, has been researching the health impacts of endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) that can be found in plastics and how they interfere with our body’s hormones for decades.
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Is Plastic Making Your Sperm Decline? Dr. Shanna Swan Answers at Moms’ Plastic Summit on April 3
Moms Announces 2025 Annual Summit: A Health Crisis in Plain Sight
Join Moms Clean Air Force virtually on April 3 as we explore the latest research on the perilous impacts of plastic on the human lifecycle with scientists, doctors, people living near plastic manufacturing facilities, and government officials, including Congresswoman Summer Lee, epidemiologist Dr. Shanna Swan, and Adam Met.
Moms’ Dominique Browning’s Blistering Take Down of Zeldin’s “Great American Comeback” in U.S. News and World Report
“While lobbyists and executives from the oil, gas, chemical and automobile industries celebrated the news, the American public should not,” writes Moms’ Dominique Browning in an op-ed response to EPA Administrator Zeldin’s so-called “Great American Comeback” published in US News and World Report.
Ask Mom Detective: Are Plastic Water Bottles Safe?
Plastic water bottles are not just filled with water. They are brimming with microplastics and 150 different known chemicals too.
Where There’s Smoke, There’s “Advanced Recycling”: Moms Make News
Read the latest news from Moms Clean Air Force staff and members in Arizona, Georgia, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, and Wisconsin.
Moms Tell EPA to Put People’s Health Over Chemical Industry Profits
EPA is about to assess the risks of the vinyl chloride to decide whether it presents an “unreasonable risk of injury to health or the environment.” The science clearly shows it does.
Life Under Threat: Toxic Black Smoke in Hebron, Ohio (VIDEO)
This Mom used footage from her phone camera to sound the alarm about a new “advanced recycling” plastics burning facility in Hebron, Ohio—capturing the attention of the press, a local lawmaker, and the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.
We Haven’t Lost Hope, and Neither Should You: Moms Make News
Read the latest news from Moms Clean Air Force staff and members in Arizona, New York, Tennessee, Virginia, Wisconsin, and Washington, DC.
Two Years After the East Palestine Derailment, EPA Chemical Assessment Is Veering Off Track
EPA is about to assess the risks of vinyl chloride to decide whether this potent carcinogen presents an “unreasonable risk of injury to health or the environment.” But its plans for this evaluation are woefully inadequate. The people of East Palestine deserve better.
Moms Resist Trump’s Spree of Reckless, Unconstitutional Executive Orders
The nation is witnessing a deluge of executive orders, so many of which are reckless and harmful, especially the ones gutting work to cut air and climate pollution. At Moms, we’re bearing witness and working to explain what’s going on. We’re also fighting back.
The Climate Questionnaire: Director and Filmmaker Nic Stacey
Nic Stacey’s latest documentary, Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy, reveals the tricks brands play to keep consumers consuming and explores the deep impacts these nefarious practices have on our lives and our planet. We asked Nic some questions about his journey as filmmaker turned climate advocate.
Wildfires in California Make Buildings’ Hidden Plastic Problem Visible
Paint is plastic, carpet is plastic, window coverings are plastic. A new policy brief describes how plastic is being used at an astronomical scale in the built environment—and the hazardous chemicals that can be released when plastic buildings burn.