Rashida Tlaib

I will--Ms. McGhee, you know, we were out there doing a press conference about the hos--you noticed all of a sudden, they started cleaning around the plant with the--and I thought to myself, do we need to have maybe some fake press…

And they never notified any--they never notified the state or city or any residents that this was happening, correct?

They have got some--a number of violations. They were actually operating for months, almost six months, Stellantis was operating without implementing the correct equipment.

I remember in Southwest Detroit, thinking that smell was normal, honestly.

It took a long time to shut down the Detroit incinerator... it actually hurt communities.

I want to thank you all so much for continuing to give credibility to members like us that continue to say that we have to do something about accountability.

I just cannot thank her for her courage.

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

Communities like mine have been waiting far too long for updated regulations, and no community can afford to wait any longer.

The lack of regulations to this facility caused a lifetime of respiratory and cardiovascular problems that my community still lives with.

I want to acknowledge that there are a great number of environmental justice issues in Detroit.

If it wasn't for her, we were never have been able to get over $1 billion to stop water shutoffs in our country.

Zero should be our target. Zero children with asthma from concentration of corporate polluter; zero elders and season residents with cancer from breathing air tainted by corporations under toothless consent decrees; and zero neighbors…

We have an urgent moral duty, y'all, to build new systems and structures that put our health and environment first.

Our current environmental permitting and enforcement systems are sacrificing Black, Brown and immigrant and low-income communities, working class communities, for profits of corporate polluters.

After receiving 400 million in free money, and a license to pollute a majority Black neighborhood, they couldn't even be bothered to install the pollution controls correctly.

Fifteen thousand was an arbitrary decided number, inadequate to pay for the foundation, the roofing, the windows, air filters, heating and cooling upgrades that residents need to be able to be safe in their homes.

Everyone deserves the right to breathe clean air.

I really respect that he knows this is my district, and I will help lead this committee.

I know one of our folks testified to this.

I do not envy you. I read that the Reid-Hillview Airport was the 34th highest emitter of lead in 2022.

While lead pipes and paint are well-known contributors to this mass poisoning of the American people, especially our children, leaded aviation fuel is not.

I always think of water. I think of Flint. I think of my communities in Detroit as well as some Western Wayne communities that are impacted by lead-contaminated pipelines.

Why are Americans afraid?

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