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.

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

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.

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.

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…

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

I urge Congress to amend and strengthen Title VI.

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

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.