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.
Community Speaks Out Against Expansion Of Harmon Creek Natural Gas Processing Plant In Washington County
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.
Tell Congress: Burning Plastic Is Not a Solution to the Plastics Crisis
“Advanced recycling,” a.k.a. burning plastic, is not a solution to the plastic pollution crisis. It is dangerous. Any legislation before Congress promoting “advanced recycling” would mean the proliferation of plastics-burning facilities across the country—and it would exempt these incinerators from air pollution …
The Plastics Crisis
Plastics contain thousands of toxic chemicals — like BPA, PFAS, phthalates, flame retardants, and heavy metals. Those chemicals move out of plastics and into our air, our bodies, our soil, and our food. Making plastic releases air pollution. We have a plastics crisis. And a health crisis.
Testimony: Sam Schmitz, Supporting CB11-2025 & Encouraging Howard County Council to Put People over Profits, February 19, 2025
By: Sam Schmitz, Project Manager, DC Events and Policy, Moms Clean Air Force Date: February 19, 2025 About: Supporting CB11-2025 & Encouraging Howard County Council to Put People over Profits To: Howard County Council Thank you for the opportunity to testify. My …
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.
Mom Detective: Nontoxic Rugs
Mom Detective answers: There are so many polyester and polypropylene rugs being touted as “family-friendly” and “nontoxic.” What’s the deal with them? Are they truly a safe choice for our families? Read her full column here.
Frontline Mental Health Impacts: Ohio River Valley Communities
Join Moms Clean Air Force and our partners at Food & Water Watch for a virtual conversation about the mental health impacts of living with plastics and petrochemical pollution in your backyard. Partners: Food and Water Watch; Beaver County Marcellus Awareness Community …
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.