"We have to do everything within our power to protect environmental justice communities' ability to speak for themselves."
"We need to move toward mandatory emissions reductions."
"I urge Congress to amend and strengthen Title VI."
"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 climat..."
"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."
"we need our enforcing agencies to understand that they are working with vulnerable communities that often have high rates of asthma."
"there have been 40 violations I believe since then."
"So I do want to correct myself. So they had 40 violations that got them into the consent decree..."
"I just want you to know, I want one of the people that picked up and I could not believe that was happening."
"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."
"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."
"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"