National Tribal Air Association

Actress Julianne Moore today called on mothers to get involved in fighting to crack down on toxic air pollution and defending U.S. EPA's air regulations. Moore, a mother of two, urged women to join the Moms Clean Air Force, a nonprofit group.

"I love my kids with all my heart and the last thing I want to worry about is the air they breathe," Moore says in a Web video.

Moore touted EPA's air toxics rule finalized last December that will significantly cut power plant emissions of mercury, acid gas and other volatile organic compounds.

But she added that the new rule and the Clean Air Act generally are "now under a dangerous political attack."

"Clean air should be above politics," Moore said in a statement. "The discussion about regulations to protect our air has gotten so polarized that we have forgotten an important thing: We all breathe the same air. And all our children suffer because of pollution. We don't have to choose between a healthy economy and a healthy environment."

The group is working to protect EPA's mercury and air toxics standards from being undone by Congress or lobbyists.

"It's time for polluters to stop bullying us," Moore says in the video.

The Moms Clean Air Force is a coalition of groups such as Asthma Moms, Green for All and Healthy Child Healthy World.

Moore, who is also a children's book author, became involved in the group after its founder, former House & Garden Editor in Chief Dominique Browning, contacted her last summer. Other celebrities involved in the group include actresses Jessica Capshaw and Blythe Danner.

Moore isn't the first celebrity to defend EPA's air rules. Former NFL star Jerome Bettis met with lawmakers and EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson days before the mercury rule was finalized and appeared in a public service announcement for the agencyNews PM, Jan. 6).

Click here for the video.