"COVID-19 has only exacerbated this and shown us just how dangerous air pollution is to human health, particularly in our frontline communities."
"Fewer than one-third of U.S. counties have monitors, meaning that families don't have access to real-time information about the air they are breathing."
"Last week, the American Lung Association released their annual State of the Air Report, showing that 40 percent of Americans live in areas where the air is unsafe to breathe."
"Clearly, we still have a lot of work to do to clean up our air."
"That is why I introduced the Public Health Air Quality Act, and I am proud it is included in the CLEAN Future Act."
"As a matter of fact, you preempted me. In the American Rescue Plan, we appropriated $50 million to EPA for air quality monitoring programs under the Clean Air Act."
"While the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated environmental justice concerns in communities across the country, these concerns are not new."
"If you can't breathe, you can't work."
"Under the previous administration, the approach towards fentanyl-related substances was handled through policies that more promoted decriminalization and not public health."
"It is clear our Nation's ongoing overdose crisis isn't limited to one community, one region, one race, or one socioeconomic class."
"We need to keep people alive, which means we need to expand access to harm reduction services to prevent morbidity and mortality associated with opiate use."