Raúl Grijalva: “The Environmental Justice for All Act recognizes that meaningfully improving the lives of Black, Indigenous, and People…”

We urge Congress to reject legislative proposals that make this colonial-era law worse.

I look forward to working with you, Madam Chair, and the other members of the Subcommittee to move this bipartisan bill in a similar bipartisan manner.

Effective democratic governance depends upon informed public participation, and several international conventions and policy guidelines call for enhanced public participation in environmental management.

To merely open the floodgates to the use of our public lands without any protections, due process, community involvement... is going back to a time that got us into this situation.