Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

This is a scandal. This is shocking, and it should truly be an affront to every single person in this country who believes in any form of financial, social, and economic equity.

Data suggests that New York City's Black neighborhoods, which were devastated by the economic shocks and the pandemic as well as decades of predatory lending, are most at risk of foreclosure.

Today, we are focusing on the discriminatory and racist practices in home appraisals in our country.

We are seeing that hate crimes are on the rise across all demographics in the United States.

I am interested a little bit about the current threats targeting Black institutions.

And what are some of the proposals, and what are some of the ideas that you would recommend the committee entertain in order to right that wrong?

All of these things are core Green New Deal tenets.

So is it accurate to say as well that when controlled burning was banned over decades, the land grew thick then with vegetation and it dried out every summer, essentially creating huge kindling stocks for extreme and even more devastating…

So up until the 1970's, the colonization and the displacement of indigenous peoples in the United States included banning a practice that we now know explicitly sequestered carbon.

Injustice and colonization is part of what has led us to this climate crisis today.

My bill would also help us meet the goals of the Paris Agreement by preserving large swaths of forests.

My bill would designate approximately 23 million acres of wild lands in the continental Northwest as wilderness.

That is why I introduced H.R. 1755, the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act, or NREPA.

We need to stick to the science of the problem and worry about all of the injustice stuff later or separately.

I am asking Congress to do four things: pass NREPA, pass a law requiring the Forest Service to incentivize preservation over timber sales, repeal the logging provisions in the infrastructure law, allocate some of that money to help people…

They are purchasing them in minority and low-income neighborhoods, specifically.

The average American now has to compete with major companies like Invitation Homes, whose parent company is Blackstone

Extreme weather events will be the new normal, our communities will flood, and our economy will be underwater.

The WRDA 2022 bill has the potential to make strides in our efforts to remove polluting debris in our waterways, treat wastewater, address sewage overflow, mitigate flooding, and restore environmental degradation in my district.

I wish to again express my appreciation for the opportunity to testify, as well as your commitment to addressing the climate crisis through our legislative efforts.

Just this February, pipeline workers associated with the development of Line 3 were arrested for sex trafficking.

This is a continuation of state violence against indigenous women.

So what we are seeing here is that local police departments on fossil fuel extraction-sites that are placed strategically on reservations and native lands, those fossil fuel companies pay local police departments to protect their…

The correlation between fossil fuel extraction sites and abductions and murders of indigenous women across the United States.

We have a crisis of missing and murdered indigenous and black women in the United States.