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Articles by Tamara Toles O’Laughlin
OP-ED: Why Earth Day is connected to Black life
Pexels/Safari Consoler When you think of Earth Day, what comes to mind? Some think that Earth Day is just for beekeepers, tree-huggers, and seed-savers. The truth is that the planet in crisis is our business, because it’s shaping our politics, our economy, and our everyday life. The planet will have the last word about our legacy. Earth Day is the alarm clock that reminds us that now is the time to wake up and play our part in addressing the climate crisis.
Climate Crisis: Black America Can't Wait For Biden Administration To Deliver Environmental Justice
CLOSE Environmental pollution, partisanship and political theater are killing Black Americans. Not since the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 has legislation been so poised to shift the landscape of human rights within a generation. Today, watered-down environmental legislation blunts demand for decisive policy and participation in the name of crass compromise of Black people, rural, urban, or poor, served up for the appearance of progress.
An equity point of view on the Inflation Reduction Act Original
The United States has crossed a threshold after decades of intrepid attempts to build political will for climate action. While it is important to recognize the shift in momentum, and its value, we can’t dismiss that it prioritizes investments in projects over people, again.
The Racial Equity Point of View on the Inflation Reduction Act
By Tamara Toles O’Laughlin, President and CEO, Environmental Grantmakers Association The United States has crossed a threshold after decades of valiant attempts to build political will for climate action. In a historic compromise, the Inflation Reduction Act is moving billions of dollars into the market and sending a signal across the globe that America is committed to fighting the climate crisis as a part of a multinational duty to the generations.
Strengthening this one rule could keep frontline communities safe from their toxic neighbors
Attica Scott and Larry Lambert are state representatives for Kentucky and Delaware, respectively. We grew up in or near predominantly Black communities surrounded by heavy industry. As children in Louisville, Kentucky, and Claymont, Delaware, we knew something was amiss when so many friends and family members developed dense coughs, asthma, cancer, and other diseases.
This landmark meeting set the principles of environmental justice
Tamara Toles O’Laughlin is a national climate strategist, and the CEO and president of the Environmental Grantmakers Association. As COP26 gets underway, we don’t know if it will meet our ambitions for action on climate — that’s something we can only determine in retrospect. Organizers have worked hard to make sure that the diversity of our movement is on display, but equity is another matter entirely.
There’s No Black Liberation Without Climate Reparations
As awful as it is to wade through the truth of history, our active duty today is to show up for tomorrow. The story of the African diaspora in America is full of examples of consciousness raised to demand more; from divestment as the driver of the end of South African apartheid to its use in today’s activism to end the age of fossil fuels, there are breaks in the harsh reality that we can build on.
Voter suppression is a climate justice issue - and 2020 is the tipping point
The world of the possible Subscribe to Shift Happens Tamara Toles O’Laughlin is the North America director of 350.org. Peggy Shepard is cofounder and executive director of WE ACT for Environmental Justice. Imagine gathering everything you can carry to flee your home in the wake of a wildfire and returning to find the charred remnants of your life. Or losing a grandparent to heat stroke because they couldn’t afford an air conditioner during a heat wave.
When It Comes to Climate Change, It’s Joe Biden Versus the DNC
The Democratic presidential nominee knows that halting fossil fuel subsidies is imperative. Why doesn’t the DNC? By Tamara Toles O’LaughlinTwitter August 21, 2020 fb tw mail Print msg wa sms Bookmark Democratic presidential nominee and former vice president Joe Biden. (Pix_Arena / Shutterstock) Join the Nation Festival Join the Nation Festival for four days of essential conversation and commentary in the wake of the 2020 election.
If you care about the planet, you must dismantle white supremacy
Published Jun 15, 2020 Tamara Toles O’Laughlin is an advocate for people and planet and the North America director for the global climate campaign 350.org. In dozens of cities across America, the streets have been packed with protests about the murder of George Floyd and the long history of police violence against Black men, women, and children. The pain and anger are visceral.
If you care about the planet, you must dismantle white supremacy
Tamara Toles O’Laughlin is an advocate for people and planet and the North America director for the global climate campaign 350.org. In dozens of cities across America, the streets have been packed with protests about the murder of George Floyd and the long history of police violence against Black men, women, and children. The pain and anger are visceral. Floyd’s death is yet another example of how Black life can be taken without pause — and not just because we are in a pandemic.
We need just recovery for the coronavirus and climate crises
With the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic growing, Congress is considering additional stimulus and relief to provide stability for the long process of recovery. As lifelong advocates for climate and environmental justice, we are clear that a livable future means advocating for health and safety and addressing the reality of our warming planet.
Opinion | Big Oil Needs to Pay for the Damage It Caused
This month in a Manhattan courthouse, New York State’s attorney general Letitia James argued that ExxonMobil should be held accountable for layers of lies about climate change. It’s a landmark moment—one of the first times that Big Oil is having to answer for its actions—and James deserves great credit for bringing it to trial. But it comes with a deep irony: Under the relevant New York statutes, the only people that New York can legally identify as victims are investors in the company’s stock.
Big Oil Needs to Pay for the Damage It Caused
This month in a Manhattan courthouse, New York State’s attorney general Letitia James argued that ExxonMobil should be held accountable for layers of lies about climate change. It’s a landmark moment — one of the first times that Big Oil is having to answer for its actions — and James deserves great credit for bringing it to trial.
Big Oil Needs to Pay for the Damage It Caused
This month in a Manhattan courthouse, New York State’s attorney general Letitia James argued that ExxonMobil should be held accountable for layers of lies about climate change. It’s a landmark moment—one of the first times that Big Oil is having to answer for its actions—and James deserves great credit for bringing it to trial. But it comes with a deep irony: Under the relevant New York statutes, the only people that New York can legally identify as victims are investors in the company’s stock.
Go big or ‘no home’: We need green amendments in state constitutions
In August 2018, the Maryland Environmental Health Network and its membership of impacted residents in the community, health advocates and environmental activists came together to strategize on ways to confront the root causes of climate and health threats in our state. Among other ideas, we decided to raise our collective voice in favor of bold action. What developed was a proposal for an addition to the state constitution, now known as the Healthy Green Maryland Amendment.
Maryland's air quality is a growing crisis: Column
At the Maryland Environmental Health Network, air quality is chief among the issues we tackle. Although it’s not well highlighted, Maryland’s air quality has problems. Both our citizens and the Chesapeake Bay are vulnerable. The causes of poor air quality are many, from industrial pollution and waste disposal to agriculture, car and truck traffic, emissions from an ever-growing network of pipelines stretching from Canada to Virginia, and bad breezes blowing in from the Ohio River Valley.
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