Biden Announces $3B to Replace Lead Pipes – More Money Going to States with Greatest Need
By Lindsay McCormick, Senior Manager, Safer Chemicals and Roya Alkafaji, Manager, Healthy Communities What’s New? President Biden recently announced $3 billion in federal funding for lead service line replacement. In the third year of this historic $15 billion investment through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to replace harmful lead pipes across the U.S., there is an […]
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Biden Announces $3B to Replace Lead Pipes – More Money Going to States with Greatest Need
By Lindsay McCormick, Senior Manager, Safer Chemicals and Roya Alkafaji, Manager, Healthy Communities What’s New? President Biden recently announced $3 billion in federal funding for lead service line replacement. In the third year of this historic $15 billion investment through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to replace harmful lead pipes across the U.S., there is an […]
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Biden Announces $3B to Replace Lead Pipes – More Money Going to States with Greatest Need
By Lindsay McCormick, Senior Manager, Safer Chemicals and Roya Alkafaji, Manager, Healthy Communities What’s New? President Biden recently announced $3 billion in federal funding for lead service line replacement. In the third year of this historic $15 billion investment through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to replace harmful lead pipes across the U.S., there is an […]
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Celebrating Our Favorite Moms This Mother’s Day
Written by Julie Kimmel
Do you have a special mom in your life you'd like to celebrate this year? We have prepared e-cards with messages about climate hope, clean air, and love for our children and grandchildren. Send one to your favorite mom today.
“It’s All Connected”: One Mom Battles Asthma and Climate Change to Improve Indoor Air Quality
Written by Austyn Gaffney
“Pennsylvania has some of the oldest housing stock in the nation, and these indoor air quality issues are a huge problem." One mom shares the story of how changing her family's living situation improved their asthma symptoms—and what she's doing to ensure more people in her city get needed assistance.
Financing Solutions for Slow Onset Climate Challenges: Drawing on Nature’s Untapped Potential
Good manure management must involve ammonia emissions, too
When it comes to livestock and environmental impacts, methane emission reductions are often top of mind — and for good reason. Lowering methane emissions from animal agriculture is one of the fastest ways to slow down climate change. However, important local air pollutants like ammonia are seldom discussed with the same frequency or urgency. Agriculture […]
The post Good manure management must involve ammonia emissions, too first appeared on Growing Returns.The Power of Moms: A Cherokee Filmmaker Helps Her Chosen Grandmother Clean Up Tar Creek
Written by Tanzina Vega
Filmmaker Loren Waters met environmental activist Rebecca Jim when she was making a documentary about Tar Creek, one of most environmentally contaminated sites in the U.S. They’ve become “chosen family” whose shared Cherokee heritage and connection to the land have deeply impacted each other’s lives and activism.
Moms Tell EPA: Don’t Delay on Smog Protections
Written by Elizabeth Bechard
Ozone pollution, more commonly known as smog, is dangerous, and EPA has not updated federal protections for ozone since 2015. Progress on strengthening these protections can’t come fast enough for the families and communities living with the impacts of this pollution every day.
May Supermom of the Month: Leticia Noguiera, Florida
Written by Moms Clean Air Force
Leticia Noguiera, our May Supermom of the Month, brings her scientist perspective to our work in Florida. Since she was young, she has asked the question, If we know where this pollution is coming from and what it does to us, why don’t we stop it?
“Advanced Recycling” Plant Canceled in Small-Town Pennsylvania
Written by Alexandra Zissu
The community of Point Township, Pennsylvania, is celebrating after Encina, a chemical company, announced they would not move forward with a planned “advanced recycling” plant there.
EPA Finalizes Updates to Methane Reporting Requirements that Serve as Basis for Waste Emissions Charge
EDF Scientist Ilissa Ocko Takes Post with Special Presidential Envoy for Climate
Kids Are Officially Afraid of the Future. Talking About Climate Change Helps.
Written by Emily Pickett
To kick off Mental Health Awareness Month, Liz Hurtado, Moms’ National Field Manager, joined award-winning journalist and parenting author Anya Kamenetz from the Climate Mental Health Network for a revealing ...
Taking the Guesswork out of Methane Pollution Reporting: Colorado Publishes Nation-Leading Verification Protocol
How to improve soil modeling to maximize climate and farm benefits
“The Elephant in the Classroom”: Indoor Air Quality
Written by Austyn Gaffney
Jayne Black had never really thought about indoor air pollution. But as she began studying green schools, she realized poor air quality in the classroom may have been making her son sick.
EDF Statement on Congressional Farm Bill Proposals
EDF Statement on Congressional Farm Bill Proposals
Parents Are Feeling Lonely and Burnt Out: Here’s What We Can Do About It
Written by Elizabeth Bechard
As we begin Mental Health Awareness Month, we’re thinking about how parents and pregnant people will experience the mental health impacts of climate-drive extreme weather in unique ways. And we’re finding ways to cope.