Moms Clean Air Force staff and members made news throughout the country this week!
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Moms Make News: Week of November 11, 2019
Do Eco-Products Help Save the Planet, Or Do They Just Get Us To Buy More Stuff?
Can purchasing environmentally responsible products help to halt climate change? Or do they just get us to buy more wasteful stuff?
Mom Detective: 7 Ways To Avoid Greenwashing
Just because a product looks beautiful and safe, doesn’t mean that it is. Learn ways to avoid getting greenwashed and how to become label savvy.
Trump’s EPA is Not Doing Enough to Protect Workers From Toxic Paint Strippers
Trump’s EPA is failing to set reasonable risk levels for exposure to methylene chloride – a lethal toxic compound. Workers who use this paint stripper are at risk.
EPA Testimony: “No Amount of Profit Can be Traded for a Healthy Kid.”
This is the testimony Moms Clean Air Force’s regional manager, Elizabeth Brandt gave on November 6th, asking EPA to be more protective of our children, our families, and our communities by updating the current standards for ethane cracker plants.
Ethane Cracker Plants: Threatening Our Air, Our Climate, and Our Health
Ethane “cracker plants” are industrial facilities that create the building blocks for plastics manufacturing. They also create air pollution that harms our health and makes climate change worse.
Moms Make News: Week of October 28, 2019
Moms Clean Air Force staff and members made news throughout the country this week!
These 6 Facebook Pages Help Track Climate News
These 6 Facebook pages link to real news events and solid, fact-based science.
Pennsylvania Parents of Child Cancer Victims Cite Fracking Concerns
Parents plead with PA Governor Tom Wolf to attend cancer crisis meeting: “You have a responsibility, both to your constituents who are battling cancer or have lost loved ones, and to the parents of all children who need to know what they can do to protect them from becoming cancer patients by the time they are young adults…”
A Mother’s Story: Mercury In School Gym Flooring Makes Son Sick
When her 9-year-old son became ill early in the school year, Trisha Dello Iacono discovered a connection between the rubber-like synthetic flooring in his school’s all-purpose room. The chemical in the flooring is phenylmercuric acetate, which releases mercury vapors into the air.
Mom Detective: Is There Toxic Mercury In Your Child’s School Flooring?
Find out if your child’s school has hazardous mercury rubber-like flooring and learn what you can do about it.
10 Things Kids Can Do After the Climate Strike
Our future voters will register to vote when it’s their time, but many are inspired to do more right now. Here are 10 things you and your kids can do to help solve the climate crisis and protect the future.