The latest IPCC report paints a bleak climate future. Learn what we need to do to create a lasting, sustainable relationship with our planet.
Articles by Heather McTeer Toney
Black History Month: Educate. Empower. Activate.
Learn about our Community Rx program – it educates, empowers, and activates Black communities to fight for clean air and environmental justice.
Multitasking is Mandatory for Bold Climate Action
As we proceed under a cloud domestic terrorism, we multitask our work to help solve the urgent problems of air and climate pollution for an equitable and healthier future for our families.
In Honor of RBG, Let’s Demand Climate Discussion During the Debates
Justice Ginsburg was a champion for environmental protections. She addressed the problem and was keenly aware of the need to use science-based solutions to address global warming. Now it’s time to honor her legacy by telling debate monitors to ask the candidates how they will reduce climate pollution.
The Price of Normalizing Climate Disasters
Despite the increase of climate disasters growing more extreme, common, and destructive, our reaction and response may not be matching the moment. Have we developed a sense of normalcy around these unnatural disasters?
Testimony on Sweltering in Place: COVID-19, Extreme Heat, and Environmental Justice
Read Heather McTeer Toney’s powerful congressional testimony about the effects of environmental injustice on communities during COVID-19.
The Truth About Why COVID-19 Poses a Unique Threat to Black People
Moms Clean Air Force’s national field director wrote about why she believes Black communities are not just fighting for their lives during the coronavirus pandemic. They are COVIDing while Black.
The Mother of All Injustices
Moms are angry at the inequity, injustice and immorality running rampant. We are choosing protection over pollution, and we are choosing our children over EVERYTHING.
How We Mother During Coronavirus
Along with the rest of the world, the Moms Clean Air Force team is learning to cope with a new reality during this difficult health crisis. Our state organizers, national team, and volunteers share how they are mothering in the midst of the coronavirus.
Moms Clean Air Force’s Heather McTeer Toney In Washington Post
In the Washington Post, Moms Clean Air Force’s Heather McTeer Toney discusses how she parents as an environmental justice activist in the face of our climate crisis.
Testimony on Trump’s EPA Effort to Undermine the Mercury and Air Toxics Standard Rule
National Field Director Heather McTeer Toney delivered this testimony to the House Oversight Committee about the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards on Thursday, February 6, 2020.
Why It’s So Hard to Talk About Climate Change
Moms Clean Air Force’s national field director wrote about why she believes addressing our differences is the only way to create discourse—and solutions to fight climate change.