Rashida Tlaib

Just yesterday, one of the mothers in my community was testifying about an asphalt plant coming into her neighborhood and how she had to put $300 aside to pay for asthma inhalers for her children, for her boys.

Does having a job does that fix cancer?

So, I want to apologize for that kind of rhetoric of 'you people.' You are our people, including our Indigenous brothers and sisters across our nation. You are our people. You are not 'you people.'

I cannot thank you enough for your leadership on this and, of course, our colleague, Congressman McEachin, on just really leading us and trying to make sure that we have a good quality life for many of our residents that have to take the…

$175M tax break for Marathon refinery buys Detroiters only 15 jobs.

I intend to work, as vice chair of the Environmental Justice Subcommittee on this House Oversight Committee.

I am tired of it. I am tired of--I mean, four times I saw basements flooded in just one home.

These companies are skilled at deceiving our country, deceiving our residents.

Thank you for speaking truth, because I know in this hearing it doesn't feel like it.

We should always take what people say with a little bit of a grain of salt.

Who hurts? Who suffers? Low-income communities suffer.

If we are going to make real progress we have to have some common understanding of this problem.

We have offered the gentleman from Louisiana help.

To always bash on California as a cheap political stunt is just that.

California is one of the economic engines of this country.

Joe Biden and his administration have created more jobs than any Presidential administration in our lifetimes, while their dubious hero destroyed more jobs than any president in our lifetime.

The most tangible benefit is that we actually resource the best solutions, which is not what we are doing right now.

Injecting hundreds of millions of dollars into BIPOC-led organizations will get you imaginative thinking

Making sure that doesn't happen is an incredibly powerful position to be in.

I go, Chairman. I go, I submit comments, I get my residents to submit comments, and nothing changes. It is exhausting.

I am proud that in my district we have so many environmental justice groups that have the JEDI values ingrained into the fabric of their organizations.

Look where shutting our frontline environmental justice communities out of the halls of power has gotten us. I mean, look at it. No meaningful climate action as we continue hurtling toward planetary doom.

These communities have high rates of asthma, cancer, and respiratory disease. Our environmental decision making is literally killing communities of color.

The cumulative impact of all these pollution sources combining together is a toxic cocktail that my residents ingest every single day, and so do their children.

I represent some of the most polluted neighborhoods in Michigan. And for us, environmental justice isn't a choice. It is a daily fight for survival.