Donald McEachin

The Environmental Justice for All Act is informed by the belief that federal policy can and should strive for environmental justice, health equity, and climate justice for all deliberately overlooked and underserved communities.

The act will also hold companies accountable by allowing those of us impacted to seek legal remedy when they discriminate against us.

The Environmental Justice for All Act is a long overdue correction to our nation's failed chemical management policies.

McEachin and Grijalva are doing exactly what elected officials should do, by ensuring that communities closest to the problem have a seat at the table as we develop policy solutions.

This legislation will amend and strengthen Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which will prohibit discrimination based on the disparate impact we endure as Black, fenceline communities.

We ask the Chair, members of the Committee, and the Congress to meet this moment, show that the Congress listens to the voices of the people, and pass the Environmental Justice for All Act.

We commend the environmental justice advocates who contributed to this legislation along with Chair Grijalva and Representative McEachin.

We need tools. We have to modernize our Federal Government.

This is not a hypothetical. This is something that has affected our communities for generations.

We have Pueblo and Dine and Chicano communities that are still dealing with mines that have been left unremediated and contaminated groundwater that is undrinkable.

I think it distracts from our shared goal of solving these problems for these communities.

It really doesn't matter if it is intentional, what matters is the effects on these communities.

I believe we can use the model of EJ For All to act to build on equitable access and to support new legislative efforts as well.

The Environmental Justice For All Act will take critical steps to address disproportionate environmental and public health issues in low-income communities and communities of color.

These communities exist. They are uniform in that they are discriminated against from the standpoint that they are disenfranchised, poor, Indigenous, brown, or African American.

He seems to acknowledge the problem, but yet he does not seem to want to put forth an amendment or his own piece of legislation to fix this problem, and I find that discouraging, to say the least.

The point is what are we going to do as a country, as a nation, to lift these communities up, to empower them to fix their problems and to move our country forward.

We--and members of this Congress, in particular--have the power to shift this burden.

The Gulf Coast is already experiencing some of the effects of climate change, and we can expect all of those to grow more intense and more severe in the future, if we fail to reduce our emissions.

As our climate warms, we expect the intensity of hurricanes to increase further.

Communities along the Gulf Coast are among those that are on the front lines of climate change.

How can the Biden administration support equitable energy solutions in the Gulf that create new, good-paying jobs that protect public health and the climate?

The Environmental Justice for All Act, H.R. 2021, is important in ensuring that minority communities do not suffer a disparate impact from environmental hazards.

As the federal government works to implement the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), it is critical to understand that Tribal Nations are not merely stakeholders.