Rashida Tlaib

I just feel like we're not as obsessed with the children that are among us living in poverty.

I just wish my colleagues were as obsessed with handling infant mortality as environmental racism.

We are living through a climate crisis today, and a commitment to net zero requires a commitment to ending fossil fuel financing.

Sir, everybody who got relief from student loans, who has a bank account with your bank, should probably close their account.

You should be really concerned, Mr. Moynihan, you should really be concerned about this because...

If your financial institutions aren't going to follow through on the net-zero commitment, then regulators, including the Federal Reserve and Congress, must step in and make them.

I think it is just really important and critically important, because as we are talking about diversity and inclusion, I think the end result... is making sure that people are not being discriminated against within these industries.

The pricing functions is really a tax on America's low-income drivers, and especially Black and Brown drivers who pay significantly higher insurance rates

According to the Detroit Free Press, Michigan drivers pay some of the highest auto insurance rates in the nation, with little to no pricing transparency.

Thank you so much, Chairwoman Beatty, for highlighting the importance of diversity and inclusion in the insurance companies across our nation.

If there are block grants, if there are those pieces available, then how are we monitoring, how are we making sure that that money actually gets to folks who need it in the community?

Just because it is--looks good on paper and the numbers might be reduced, the folks who are living closest to this are still impacted negatively

You know, Professor Batterman, I remember one time that you--you talked about children being exposed to this high level of particulate matter and toxins and how it relates to learning.

I'm always struggling why we can't get that same energy toward what is happening here on the east side of Detroit, as well as with U.S. Ecology.

I just want you to know, I want one of the people that picked up and I could not believe that was happening.

So I do want to correct myself. So they had 40 violations that got them into the consent decree...

There have been 40 violations I believe since then.

We need our enforcing agencies to understand that they are working with vulnerable communities that often have high rates of asthma.

I got excited. I'm like, finally, we are going to take them to court, right? We're going to--we are going to hold them accountable.

The priority should not be profit. Just as we heard earlier today, the priority should be reducing impact to environmental justice communities immediately and building a foundation to reach our climate targets through equitable solutions.

I urge Congress to amend and strengthen Title VI.

We need to move toward mandatory emissions reductions.

We have to do everything within our power to protect environmental justice communities' ability to speak for themselves.

To put it simply: environmental racism is an issue that impacts not just one or two generations, right?

Thank you so much to our witnesses for appearing here in person.