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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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