A mom is deeply concerned that Trump picked Nancy Beck, a former senior official at the American Chemistry Council, as his nominee for the Consumer Product Safety Commission Chief.
How to Get Your Child to Wear a Mask at School
As parents, we fight against air pollution to protect our community for the sake of our children’s health. Now we have a new layer to add to our parent protecting powers: helping our children understand that wearing masks at school saves lives.
Kids Are Climate Leaders Too!
Here’s how Alliance for Climate Education (ACE) helps parents and teachers inspire and teach kids to become climate leaders.
From Yoga Mats to Weights, Is Your Home Workout Toxic?
Due to Covid-19, our exercise workouts have changed. Does home exercise equipment contain toxic chemicals that may harm health?
Can Schools Disinfect Safely to Keep Students Healthy from Covid-19?
Does the prospect of your child returning to a physical classroom during the coronavirus pandemic fill you with dread? Are you worried about toxic chemicals used to disinfect buses, classrooms, the lunchroom, and the playground? Here’s what parents need to know.
Watch “Unbreathable: The Fight for Healthy Air”
In honor of the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Clean Air Act, watch “Unbreathable: The Fight for Healthy Air” film here.
Plastic-Free During Covid
It’s “Plastic-free July” – a global movement to raise awareness and help abolish single-use plastic. But consumption of single-use plastic has grown over 100% since Covid began. Our Mom Detective asks, “Does it make sense to try and curb my plastic consumption this year?”
Nancy Beck Should Not Lead the Consumer Product Safety Commission
President Trump nominated Nancy Beck, a former chemical industry lobbyist, to head the Consumer Product Safety Commission. She has shown time and time again that she will work to protect polluting industry, not families. Beck’s the opposite of what our children need.
Healthy Pregnancy Guide
This “Healthy Pregnancy Guide” is filled with tools, tips, information, and product recommendations for healthier solutions – based in hard science and research – on the ways to cultivate healthy practices and a healthy pregnancy.
The Racism of the EPA Agenda
We do not all breathe the same air. We are now a country that is — with the oversight of the Senate committee that is upholding a radical and racist deregulatory agenda — allowing our EPA to increase air pollution everywhere, but especially in communities of color.
EPA Administrator Wheeler’s Remarks About Cleaner Air Are “Shameless and Misleading”
Wheeler is trying to take credit for America’s relatively clean air without acknowledging that he is working to undo all the protections that created it.
Trump’s EPA Has Become a Captive of the Chemical Industry
According to an EPA associate deputy assistant administrator for new chemicals, “The agency’s goal is to allow the commercialization of products.”