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?

It took a long time to shut down the Detroit incinerator... it actually hurt communities.

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

I think they need to be held criminally liable. I think they need to be shut down.

Thank you so much to our witnesses for appearing here in person.

Everyone deserves the right to breathe clean air.

I just cannot thank her for her courage.

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

Fifteen thousand was an arbitrary decided number, inadequate to pay for the foundation, the roofing, the windows, air filters, heating and cooling upgrades that residents need to be able to be safe in their homes.

It's really great for both of us to welcome our colleague, Ro Khanna, to Michigan.

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

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

I urge Congress to amend and strengthen Title VI.

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

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

we need our enforcing agencies to understand that they are working with vulnerable communities that often have high rates of asthma.

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…

just because it is--looks good on paper and the numbers might be reduced, the folks who are living closest to this are still impacted negatively