Have 10 seconds to spare? Today, moms are at the Danbury, CT, Walmart–just minutes away from Sandy Hook Elementary–urging Walmart to keep its promise to stop selling assault weapons. And these moms need a little telephone back up, which you can provide from the comfort of your home or office. Can you help us strengthen [...]
Walmart has banned music with explicit lyrics, but continues to sell assault weapons like those used in the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting. Ridiculous. Walmart carries a full range of assault weaponry that has recently included the Bushmaster AR-15, which was used in the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting of 20 children. It was also used to kill the 12 people in an [...]
MomsRising is excited to offer everyone who submits a post to the Clean Air and Environmental Justice Blog Carnival the following thank you gifts: 1) Pacha’s Pajamas soundtrack and eBook ($14.00 value). This family clean air conversation starter is a children’s pop musical that inspires kids to be superheroes for the planet. The lead character [...]
Why we need our Presidential candidates to talk about climate change This summer, the United States experienced record-high temperatures and devastating droughts and floods – extreme weather conditions that experts ascribe to climate change. And how scary were the unprecedented wildfires in Colorado that displaced thousands of families? Yet, President Obama and Governor Romney have [...]
Ninety-eight percent of American medical students swear an oath on completion of their studies, most likely a variation of the Hippocratic Oath, which dates back to the fifth century BC. The Hippocratic Oath commits physicians and other healthcare professionals to practice medicine ethically and honestly, and is surely one of the reasons society has traditionally [...]
Hey, it’s summer! That means we can rip electronics out of our kids’ hands and tell them to “go out and play!” But tragically, many of us will need to think twice about booting them outdoors because of air pollution. Studies have shown that air pollution can stunt growing lungs, particularly in children who spend [...]
MomsRising today launched six-figure TV ad buys in Ohio and Pennsylvania to express gratitude for Senator Sherrod Brown’s and Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey’s courageous votes to turn back a proposal to block EPA’s life-saving limits on mercury and other toxic air pollution. “Thanks to the leadership of Senators Brown and Casey, the Mercury and Air [...]
Tomorrow, Lisa P. Jackson, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, will testify in front of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology for the first time. It won’t be pretty. By the very title of the event, Strengthening the Scientific Backbone of the EPA: An Examination of Agency Practices and Foundations for Regulations Affecting [...]
Yesterday, Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe tried to use the obscure Congressional Review Act (CRA) to get rid of the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) Rule. I am thrilled to report that his efforts came to naught. Because of tens of thousands of letters and phone calls from moms and families across the country – [...]
Yesterday, MomsRising brought some of our moms and kids to the public hearing about proposed standards for carbon pollution at the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, DC. We were part of a huge coalition effort by public health, environmental and civil liberties organizations to express to the EPA the general public’s broad support for clean [...]
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