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.

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.

This is a continuation of state violence against indigenous women.

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

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…

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

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

That is the work of elections. That is the work of legislation. That is -- that`s the work of theory of concepts, you know, and that is what it means to be in the arena.

Ms. Cortez. Yes, I think remediation of brownfields, as I was mentioning earlier, is super important because these areas are toxic.

What is important to know is that we need investments now to transition to alternative jobs, to alternative energy sources...

Communities like mine need the Environmental Justice For All Act to become law.