By Marcia G. Yerman Moms Clean Air Force After the founding fathers put together the Constitution, James Madison penned the additional Bill of Rights in 1791. Too bad protecting the environment wasn’t included. At the end of the 18th…
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Green Kids Club: Helping Kids be Better Global Citizens
By Rebecca Flansburg Multicultural Children’s Book Day So What is the Green Kids Club? Green Kids Club is designed to teach young children the importance of environmental stewardship through picture books. The series was developed to teach children…
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2017 “STATE OF THE AIR” report shows why we still need the Clean Air Act
By Diane Maceachern Moms Clean Air Force The Clean Air Act is coming under attack for being unnecessary and too costly to enforce. But the ‘State of the Air 2017’ report from the American Lung Association (ALA), shows that millions of people…
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Why environmental groups need more volunteers of color
By Lindsey McDougle The Conversation Earth Day comes right before National Volunteer Week, an annual celebration of North American volunteerism in late April. This fortuitous timing gives environmental nonprofits an opportunity to engage prospective volunteers, especially nonwhites who live…
By Dominique Browning Moms Clean Air Force In the months since his inauguration, Donald Trump has repeatedly undermined our children’s health. He has attempted to strip the EPA of funding, dismantle America’s Clean Power Plan, and disregard research on dangerous…
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Moms Clean Air Force plans to join Climate March in Washington in April 2017
By Ronnie Citron-Fink Moms Clean Air Force The Trump administration has vowed to put the health of families in danger by implementing policies that undermine our right to clean air. According to the New York Times, “Mr. Trump has…
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Families gather in DC for Play-in for Climate Action rally
By Ronnie Citron-Frank Moms Clean Air Force On Wednesday, July 13, 2016, over 700 children and parents from 50 states joined our third annual Play-In for Climate Action at Upper Senate Park in Washington, DC for fun, music and advocacy… …
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Crowdfunder: Climate Justice Storytelling Project
LatinaLista — Campaign: Down to Earth Climate Justice Storytelling Project In the 1980s, Andy Burt had the experience of bringing Central American people and their powerful stories of human rights abuses into mainstream Indiana communities, where, to his surprise, the…
By Kerry Trueman Moms Clean Air Force What if you had the power to save millions of lives, and billions of dollars, too? In the fantasy world, we look to superheroes to save us from catastrophes. In the…
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Guest Voz: Some politicians playing “dirty” with the safety of Latino communities from climate change
By Pete Altman NRDC Senator Mitch McConnell has been itching for nearly two years to dismantle the Clean Power Plan with an extreme and rarely-used law called the Congressional Review Act. Now that the Clean Power Plan is…
LatinaLista — In 2014, the World Health Organization cited Lima, Peru, a city of almost 10 million, as having the worst air pollution in all of Latin America. Since then, various initiatives have been proposed to relieve the health…
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Nine of Colombia’s 32 provinces in state of emergency due to El Niño
By Claire Dennis Colombia Reports Nine of Colombia’s 32 provinces are in a state of emergency due to extreme drought, high temperatures and forest fires caused by El Niño that threatens to continue disrupting weather until March. The last…
By Marcia G. Yerman Mom’s Clean Air Force There has been substantial recognition given to the impact of indoor air pollution on children in schools and in their family homes. However, there is another demographic at high risk —…
By Dominique Browning Moms Clean Air Force I still remember the first time I sprawled on my back across the grass and watched the clouds drift by. I was about four or five years old. I found animal shapes…