I really respect that he knows this is my district, and I will help lead this committee.

Any municipality or part of government should not be ran as a business, period.

We will not be ignored.

Our current environmental permitting and enforcement systems are sacrificing Black, Brown and immigrant and low-income communities, working class communities, for profits of corporate polluters.

That's just wrong. That doesn't give people dignity.

I urge Congress to amend and strengthen Title VI.

It is to explore how we make sure that every community can have air that they can breathe, water that they can drink.

If it wasn't for her, we were never have been able to get over $1 billion to stop water shutoffs in our country.

there have been 40 violations I believe since then.

They have got some--a number of violations. They were actually operating for months, almost six months, Stellantis was operating without implementing the correct equipment.

The current laws and regulations that we have in frontline communities has left too many behind.

For far too long vulnerable communities have faced pollution as a compounded problem.

if there are block grants, if there are those pieces available, then how are we monitoring, how are we making sure that that money actually gets to folks who need it in the community?

This is why I fought so hard to improve the lives with Rashida and Ro for our frontline communities by prioritizing policies.

Communities like mine have been waiting far too long for updated regulations, and no community can afford to wait any longer.

Zero should be our target. Zero children with asthma from concentration of corporate polluter; zero elders and season residents with cancer from breathing air tainted by corporations under toothless consent decrees; and zero neighbors…

And they never notified any--they never notified the state or city or any residents that this was happening, correct?

I'm always struggling why we can't get that same energy toward what is happening here on the east side of Detroit, as well as with U.S. Ecology.