Last night, EPA moved to abandon legal defense of a rule that would strengthen limits on particle pollution (PM2.5), also known as soot. This is one of the deadliest forms of air pollution.

Thank you @poynterinstitute.bsky.social for the beautiful evening! Congratulations to Jane Pauley, who was honored with the Poynter Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism, and Dean Baquet and Garry Trudeau, who received the Distinguished Service to Journalism Award!

KBLA 1580 & @diprimaradio.bsky.social bring @momshealthej.bsky.social on to talk about her work with Moms fighting for health justice and the importance of not losing faith in the climate movement. 🎧https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkFXBH_4xqM

Moms’ Lorna Perez wrote an op-ed published in @theinvadingsea.bsky.social about why Florida can benefit from clean energy like solar. www.theinvadingsea.com/2025/10/27/n...

Guardian correspondent @olliemilman.bsky.social highlights recent studies in @nature.com that estimate wildfire smoke will kill nearly 1.4 million people globally per year – with over 71k fatalities in the US – if emissions aren't curbed by the end of the century. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"[Hazel's] endurance in fighting what can feel like hopeless, losing battles against larger and more powerful forces proved inexhaustible over her six decades pushing for improved air quality and climate regulations on behalf of future generations." ❤️ www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

This afternoon, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro "sacrificed progress" by trading away RGGI. Our full statement: www.momscleanairforce.org/press-releas...

The Trump administration's efforts to prop up the coal industry comes at the cost of our health--and our wallets. www.momscleanairforce.org/resources/th...

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ICYMI: @vadogwoodnews.bsky.social features Moms Senior Manager Julie Kimmel, who is fighting for clean air around the data centers near her home in Northern Virginia. 📰https://vadogwood.com/2025/09/25/fairfax-county-mom-fights-for-clean-air-as-va-data-centers-expand/

"Vaccines & climate action are vital in keeping children safe from avoidable dangers, often tough to see through the haze of collective amnesia about the past and collective unwillingness to act," Moms Public Health Manager Elizabeth Bechard writes in @usatoday.com. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Moms are so proud that our Co-founder and Director was just named to the 2025 TIME100 Climate List for her dedication to fighting for a cleaner, safer world for our children! #TIME100Climate time.com/collections/...

Dominique Browning, our Co-Founder and Director, has been named to the 2025 #TIME100CLIMATE list, and we couldn't be more proud! The power of moms across the country is embodied in this award. #time100 #momsky #climatechange #globalwarming #climatecrisis

Our children deserve robust, evidence-based policies to protect them from the dangers of air pollution and climate change. The Administration’s steamrolling of these policies is heartbreaking—and abandons caregivers.

In a @dailyyonder.bsky.social article by @juliatilton.bsky.social, Moms Public Health Manager Elizabeth Bechard warns that any kind of pollution exposure has the potential to have long-term impacts on children’s developing lungs. dailyyonder.com/arizona-rura...

The Monadnock Ledger Transcript features Moms' Maria Finnegan in reporting on a local panel discussion about how small towns and rural communities can make clean energy progress. ledgertranscript.com/2025/10/10/p...

📢 @momscleanairforce.org is in the running to win an Anthem Community Voice Award for our Plastics and Petrochemicals Campaign... but we need your help! "Celebrate" our campaign now! ➡️ celebrate.anthemawards.com/PublicVoting...

"I started working on [climate] 60 years ago. And I will be working on it until my last breath, whenever that is," former Moms Arizona organizer Hazel Chandler tells @azcentral.com from hospice. Read about Hazel's life in a feature by @joanmeiners.bsky.social: www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

The #EcoMadresSummit2025 is today at 9 am PT/12 pm ET! There's still time to register: www.mobilize.us/momscleanair...

There's strong support for climate action in progressive Santa Fe, New Mexico, yet opposition to an approved local solar farm project is suddenly facing stiff opposition fueled by misinformation about the risk of fire. f-st.co/w52Yr38

This week, dozens of Moms are testifying before EPA, asking the agency to uphold the Endangerment Finding and Clean Cars & Clean Trucks standards. 📨Send us a DM if you want to interview one of them! www.momscleanairforce.org/what-to-know...

Do you report on electric vehicles? Check out the 2nd Annual "Clean Cruise" in Royal Oak, Michigan this Saturday! www.momscleanairforce.org/press-releas...

EPA's proposal to revoke the Endangerment Finding is "a shameful, reckless, and immoral move," says Moms Director & Co-Founder Dominique Browning. Read more in @npr.org reporting by @camilareads.bsky.social: www.npr.org/2025/07/29/n...

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin is poised to release a proposal to revoke the Endangerment Finding--the legal & scientific foundation of EPA's responsibility to limit climate-heating pollution. Here's what Moms Director & Co-Founder Dominique Browning is saying.⬇️

“Protecting children’s health should be a nonpartisan issue,” says #MomDetective Alexandra Zissu. Read more: greenearthinsights.substack.com/p/climate-co...

Thoughts and prayers OR action is a false choice, writes Moms Clean Air Force Director and Co-Founder Dominique Browning in an op-ed for the Austin American-Statesman. We can do both. #TexasFloods Read the full op-ed here: www.statesman.com/story/opinio...

"My youngest son is a cancer survivor. I can’t control the air my son breathes and rely on the EPA to do their job and protect him." - Moms' Patrice Tomcik testifying before EPA today in support of strong Mercury and Air Toxics Standards: www.momscleanairforce.org/press-releas...

Today, dozens of Moms staff and members from states across the country are speaking out. They’re calling in all day to give testimony at EPA's public hearing on its proposed repeal of the 2024 rule to cut climate-warming carbon pollution from power plants. www.momscleanairforce.org/epa-carbon-r...

"How can Senate Republicans think that this big brutal bill could possibly Make America Great Again?" - @momscleanairforce.org Melody Reis on the reconciliation bill passing the Senate today. Read her full statement: www.momscleanairforce.org/press-releas...

The "POLLUTION SPREE" is in full swing. Read our statement in response to reports that EPA Administrator Zeldin has submitted a proposal that appears to weaken critical climate protections: www.momscleanairforce.org/press-releas...

In reporting for @apnews.com, @borenbears.bsky.social writes about the recent triple digit temperatures across the East Coast and how dangerous the combination of extreme heat, humidity, and high nightly temperatures can be. apnews.com/article/extr...

Chronic heat exposure can raise the risk of serious physiological and psychological issues, such as premature births and mental health crises. Learn more in @sciam.bsky.social. Reporting by @lydia-denworth.bsky.social. www.scientificamerican.com/article/hott...

[email protected]'s @kiley.bsky.social reports on a study that found students with asthma in Clairton, PA are absent more often on high pollution days. The school district is next to one of the county’s most toxic air polluters. insideclimatenews.org/news/1806202...

‪Professors from @lasiastate.bsky.social and @westernu.ca explain in a recent Time article that climate change is making heat domes – which trap hot air in place for up to weeks due to stalled pressure – more likely and intense. time.com/7296973/more...

Read our Wisconsin Field Organizer Jayne Black's letter to the editor in the @captimes.com about the Public Service Commission’s decision to approve two new methane gas plants. 📨 captimes.com/opinion/lett...

In honor of Juneteenth, Moms Clean Air Force's Stephanie Reese wrote a beautiful op-ed that was published in @thenewlede.bsky.social. Read it now: www.thenewlede.org/2025/06/june...

Dominique Browning, @momscleanairforce.org director & co-founder, called EPA's proposal to roll back key protections from power plant and mercury pollution "a reckless betrayal of EPA’s mission to protect human health and the environment." Full statement: www.momscleanairforce.org/press-releas...

“I received a call from [my son], and I could tell that he was having a hard time breathing. I asked him, ‘Are you outside?’ He was, and he was trying to get to his inhaler." Jayne Black & other Moms share their wildfire smoke stories from this week: www.momscleanairforce.org/extreme-livi...

Don't miss the 🔥hottest🔥 webinar series of the summer! Learn more and register here: www.mobilize.us/momscleanair...

In an interview with @npr.org Short Wave, Moms' Elizabeth Bechard shares advice for parents who are worried about climate change: "You need community. We all need community. None of us were meant to carry this alone." ❤️ Listen now: www.npr.org/2025/05/27/1...

Reporting on the #wildfires? Talk to one of our experts about how to keep your family safe from the smoke! DMs are open.📨 www.momscleanairforce.org/resources/wi...

“EPA's mission is supposed to be to protect public health, and in this instance, they won't be,” @envdefensefund.bsky.social's Ananya Roy tells @usatoday.com in a piece about Trump's move to delay pollution protections from coal plants. www.usatoday.com/story/news/i...

Companies are using a complicated accounting system to call virgin plastic "recycled." Here's my attempt to explain how (including a very cool visualization!) @grist.org grist.org/accountabili...

Reporting on microplastics? Get the facts. www.momscleanairforce.org/resources/mi...

By @alejandrabee.bsky.social The House and Senate both voted to loosen regulations on air pollutants like dioxin and mercury, which are associated with higher cancer risk.

Early this morning, the U.S. House passed a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution that removes protections on 7 of the world’s most dangerous and deadly pollutants for 1.8k of the nation’s worst industrial polluters. 📢Moms respond. ⬇️ www.momscleanairforce.org/press-releas...

What's it like to live next to Shell's ethane cracker plant in Beaver County, PA? Find out in @insideclimatenews.org reporting. @cleanairmoms-pa.bsky.social's Rachel Meyer lives a few miles from the plant, and says it can be "unnerving." insideclimatenews.org/news/0905202...

1/ Moms' Isabel Gonzalez Whitaker lives in Memphis, only a few miles away from Elon Musk's new xAI data center that powers Grok. After her son was struck by an asthma attack that landed him in the ER, she wondered if pollution from the facility could have something to do with it.

1/ “My entire life was turned upside down by an unseasonably hot day in September,” Amy Dishion tells @insideclimatenews.org. “I hope that by speaking about this I can put a human face on what is so often just a bunch of statistics.” insideclimatenews.org/news/0305202...