Are you aware that pollution from fossil fuel-burning vehicles and power plants directly contribute to high levels of asthma as well as other respiratory and cardiovascular conditions, particularly among low-income families and communities of color?
Yvette Clarke: “Are you aware that pollution from fossil fuel-burning vehicles and power plants directly contribute to high levels of…”
On the recordFebruary 26, 2020
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Clarke questions Wheeler on the health impacts of pollution on vulnerable communities.
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