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"As a citizen, I just feel like they have turned their backs on us," Moms' Mary Wagner says in response to the EPA continuing to weaken air regulations despite findings that nearly half of American children live in areas with dangerous levels of air pollution.
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Moms' Vanessa Lynch details how communities across Pennsylvania are reacting to the rapid growth of data centers, potential for pollution and the need for regulation development in The Keystone.
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"In February 2025, I witnessed something I can’t forget. A massive plume of thick black smoke was pouring out of a plastic waste burning facility," Moms' Amanda Rowoldt writes about her experience witnessing and reporting a violating facility to the EPA.
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A @forbes.com article reports that a new study revealed nearly half of US children live in an area that fails at least one measure of air pollution. Moms' Liz Hurtado explains more than 7 million kids, especially Hispanic, live in a community that fails every measure. www.forbes.com/sites/jamieh...
@insideclimatenews.org flags that an Ohio plastic waste plant in violation of Ohio EPA regulations - brought to their attention when @cleanairmoms-oh.bsky.social's Amanda Rowoldt filed video footage of billowing black smoke - plans to open an Arizona facility.
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@apnews.com reports that dozens of Moms recently testified in front of the EPA, urging them to continue classifying plastic pyrolysis units as incinerators. @cleanairmoms-ga.bsky.social's Kiya Stanford called this proposal "a move to prioritize polluters over people".
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Moms' Karin Stein notes the EPA's decision to repeal the Endangerment Finding will inevitably worsen Iowa's air quality, and she believes communities should monitor their air in the absence of the EPA's willingness to do so.
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A recent op-ed in Elizabethon Star debunks recycling myths and suggests that readers join an advocacy group, such as Moms, to help reduce plastics before they are even produced.
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As reported in @commondreams.org, in a letter signed by 160+ groups, Moms and @actonclimateus.bsky.social call for the removal of EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin because of his brazen betrayal of the agency's core mission to protect human health and the environment. www.commondreams.org/news/epa-lee...
@earth911.bsky.social summarizes the environmental damage Trump's EPA has caused thus far. This includes rolling back the Mercury and Air Toxic Standard despite science that no amount of mercury is safe for babies' developing brains, as Moms' Dominique Browning says.
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The American Lung Association’s annual report finds that climate change is making dirty air worse, especially for communities of color. The Trump administration keeps targeting rules meant to help.
Pennsylvania is in a data center boom, with over 50 facilities already active and 50 more proposed—but at what cost to local communities? And who’s standing up for their rights?
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By Amanda Rowoldt In February 2025, I witnessed something I can’t forget. A massive plume of thick black smoke was pouring out of a plastic waste burning facility in Licking County, about 40 minutes e...
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A report claims 33.5 million children in the U.S. live in an area that received a failing grade for at least one measure of air pollution.
Freepoint Eco-Systems seeks to become a major player in so-called “chemical recycling.” Some residents and environmental advocates are fighting back.
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The Environmental Protection Agency is reconsidering whether facilities that recycle plastic chemically should be held to the same strict air pollution standards as incinerators.
Local advocates are turning to community monitoring after federal deregulation move.
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BY NORMA MORRISON On Saturday, March 28, at the Carter County Recycling Center, 411 Cherokee Park Road, Elizabethton, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., we will have a toxic waste […]
