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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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