"If we are truly serious about Black Lives Mattering; If we deeply value taking the knee of white supremacy off of the neck of Black America; If we sincerely want to end the inhumane practice of sacrifice zones and the poisoning of entire communities of African Americans, Latino Americans, Indigenous..."
"When a privileged community decides it doesn't want something in its backyard, quite often, it is the backyards of the less powerful, less connected, and less wealthy that end up bearing the burden."
"Fossil fuel companies know the toll that their infrastructure takes on public health and environment."
"They look to site projects where they will face the least amount of political and public resistance, which, unfortunately, is often in poor, underserved, and under-represented communities."
"Thank you for the question. Dominion Energy always told us... that the gas was needed, would bring jobs and would be inevitable."
"I do know that, Ms. Patterson, that you have another appointment and you need to depart in 1 minute from this hearing."
"It is going to take a long time for a person like me and, I would think, others, to regain trust."
"I hope in the future that we take back that message, that such important reform should be debated and discussed fully."
"I ultimately ended up voting for the bill, against my local labor unions, and it was very painful."
"We are advocating here that our nation's ports must be included in any future packages."
"I have pressed Congress and the administration to take steps to aid ports like opening up municipal lending facilities to port authorities."