The Flint water crisis is an example of what happens when the needs of profit and industry are deemed more important than the needs of the people.

We have a right to breathe clean air, and water is a human right.

So just know that all of your work is so important, and it is this partnership, this kind of level of partnership that is going to be able to get us transformative change for all of us in our communities.

It helps elevate the work that we are doing on a national level if you are holding corporate polluters here locally accountable.

It is so critically important that we elevate the voices of so many residents that are not in this room that are dealing with this on a daily basis, every single day, and now their children.

It sounds like this is about basically allowing us to have more of a say whether or not to allow a permit to come into our space and where we live.

All of you play an incredibly essential role in addressing environmental racism in our country and the fight against corporate assault on our families.

The main theme here is environmental racism, right?

We need Federal protection to guarantee a right to affordable water in order to ensure that people have access to this basic human need.

He has been one of the key champions on PFAS contamination in our country and has not backed down.

So I want to thank all of you so much for being here.