Today, environmental justice communities, including communities of color, tribal and Indigenous communities, and poor and working-class communities continue to be disproportionately burdened by pollution and harmful climate effects.

Over the last few years, I have been proud to work with Representative McEachin on a comprehensive piece of legislation to address environmental injustice, racism, and discrimination.

A major factor has been the fossil fuel industry and the other polluting industries having a long and troubled history of intentionally building projects that pollute surrounding neighborhoods within communities of color and poor…

I hope the testimony today will inform our Committee about the urgent need to empower communities to protect their local environment and realize their right to clean air, clean water, and healthy outdoor spaces.

Today, environmental justice communities... continue to be disproportionately burdened by pollution and harmful climate effects.

It represents a bold and necessary shift in the way we create federal environmental policy.

all people have the right to pure air, clean water and an environment that enriches life.

Thank you very much, Heather, and thank you to the Committee members for being here.

And then you will see why this piece of legislation that we are having a hearing about today is needed.

We urge the Committee, and any other committees with authority over this legislation, to begin to correct these injustices...

We are writing on behalf of Silent Spring Institute to provide comments on the Environmental Justice for All Act (H.R. 2021) and detail the need for action on issues of environmental racism and disparate exposure burdens to toxic chemicals…