Earlier this month, we launched a new campaign calling for EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin to resign. Week after week since he was confirmed to lead the agency in January, Zeldin has attacked clean air protections and undermined climate stability through his reckless, aggressive agenda that allows polluters to get away with more harmful emissions and endangers the health of everyone in the U.S.
Tell Congress: Hold Zeldin Accountable for Corrupting EPA’s Mission
A Politico feature covered the launch of our nonpartisan campaign, which aims to mobilize our 1.6 million members to channel their frustration into action.
“We want him to resign because he has thoroughly corrupted the mission of EPA,” Moms’ Director and Co-Founder, Dominique Browning, tells Politico. “What he’s allowing polluters to do is just unheard of. Never before has an EPA behaved this way.”
Scripps News also covered our “Zeldin Must Go” campaign, in a piece run in nearly 50 other outlets.
In other news
- In an op-ed published in TIME, Senior Analyst Cynthia Palmer (pictured) links her best friend’s cancer diagnosis and death to growing up next to four chemical manufacturing facilities and warns that EPA’s dismantling of toxic chemical safeguards will be lethal.
- Cynthia is also quoted in Amherst Indy highlighting the ongoing health risks of microplastic and potential harm of bioplastics, which are made from toxic chemicals.
- La Esquina TX interviews Senior Manager Liz Hurtado on EcoMadres’ work to uplift Latino voices and fight for cleaner air.
- In Voyage Denver, Colorado Field Organizer Shaina Oliver explains that her time with Moms has nurtured her voice and provided her a platform to uplift air pollution impacts in Indigenous communities.
- Senior National Field Director Patrice Tomcik shares in Mother Jones that Moms, working with partners like the Environmental Defense Fund, has uncovered 250 orphaned oil and gas wells across Pennsylvania. These wells are known to leak the potent greenhouse gas methane, and plugging them is one of the best levers we have to cut climate pollution.
- West Virginia Field Organizer Lani Wean discusses residents’ widespread opposition to a proposed “advanced recycling” plastics burning facility in West Virginia News Service. Burning plastics is known to threaten the environment and our health.
Honorable mention
Over the last few weeks, Moms also earned a mention in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Tell Congress: Hold Zeldin Accountable for Corrupting EPA’s Mission