The loss of nature and environmental destruction has disproportionately affected low-income communities of color.

Who hurts? Who suffers? Low-income communities suffer.

Since 2019, this program has provided nearly 7 million to secure over 70 synagogues, mosques, churches, schools, and community centers across Michigan.

The NSGP is a vital part of our efforts at SCN and our Federation system, supporting our work and our open, free practice of religion.

the most tangible benefit is that we actually resource the best solutions, which is not what we are doing right now.

These communities have high rates of asthma, cancer, and respiratory disease. Our environmental decision making is literally killing communities of color.

Each year, too many lives are cut short because of drug overdoses. And fentanyl and its analogs, most of which originate from China, are making this crisis even worse. Sadly, under the Biden administration's porous border policies, many of…

I go, Chairman. I go, I submit comments, I get my residents to submit comments, and nothing changes. It is exhausting.

This growing threat can be demoralizing: But as our witnesses today will note, we are far from powerless against it.

Communities of color are three times more likely to live in nature-deprived areas.

Look where shutting our frontline environmental justice communities out of the halls of power has gotten us. I mean, look at it. No meaningful climate action as we continue hurtling toward planetary doom.

We have also been advocating with over 170 of our colleagues in bipartisan basis to make this an easier program to access.

making sure that doesn't happen is an incredibly powerful position to be in.

The last 5 years have seen a 60 percent increase in anti-Semitic incidents Nation-wide.

The Jewish community is the No. 1 target of religiously-motivated hate crimes in the United States.

injecting hundreds of millions of dollars into BIPOC-led organizations will get you imaginative thinking

Rabbi Charlie's actions late last month literally saved lives.

I represent some of the most polluted neighborhoods in Michigan. And for us, environmental justice isn't a choice. It is a daily fight for survival.