cut carbon emissions, address poverty, invest and does it vantage communities, and improve both air quality and public health. when, solar, and other clean energy jobs. therefore we support this motion and we support the very teachings of our indigenous people, that water is sacred. this land is sacred. thank you. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. fill rock from california, part of the hillary delegation. theng from california, state that has shown extraordinary leadership on the climate change issue, i know how important it is to acknowledge the threat of climate change, to set aggressive goals and to come together around solutions that will help us achieve our goals

and preserve our planet for our children, and it is one of the reasons i am supporting hillary clinton, because she shares these views. [applause] this amendment to a platform that party sets the most aggressive and important climate change goals of any democratic , now not onlyt sets these common goals but also brings us together in a unified way in achieving them. the that reason, i urge in support of this measure. thank you very much. [applause] hope that our brothers and sisters in the media are taking note of this moment. we are standing together as democrats. we are standing together as union members and environment of justice organizers. we are standing together as

parents who are concerned about their children's future, grandparents concerned about their grandchild's future. we are putting forward the most forward thinking platform statement on the environment that either party has ever produced. [applause] sister grateful to my carol browner for all she did today to help us get this done. [applause] >> and to all the union leaders who dug down deep to help us get this done. am grateful to josh fox, my, he is inspiring. [applause] >> and i am grateful to phil mckibben and 350.org.

[applause] >> and i am grateful to jane too. put as a man who helped president in the white house and help to hold the president to the highest ideals on keystone. it is part of why this is able to get done, because we as democrats cannot stand here like some in countries around the world and say not only will we aspire to do the right thing on the environment, but he will hold ourselves accountable to getting it done. that is how we save the future for our children as elijah cummings told us, we have already borrowed the world for them for a moment. now let us go forward. let us put an office a president

who can actually deliver on this , and let's make sure she does. god bless. [applause] . . . >> so, for this moment i speak as a grandmother, as a teacher, patriot,er, as a proud and as a proud delegate in support of hillary clinton. [applause] and i have the honor of being the final speaker here, and i am not going to repeat what my brothers and sisters have just said, that this is a moment that

shows who the democratic party is, a party of people, a party like fdrn, but a party that both dreams and does. believes,at not only but has the moxie, as my grandmother would have said, the common sense know how about how to get things done, about how to make sure that we can reach common ground so that we protect the environment for our children and grandchildren and ensure we have the best engine of economic growth for a middle-class that any nation in this world has, and that is what this substitute does. but i'm going to ask all of us

this, just like my brother ben did, which is with this passion that we have for both a for rebuilding our infrastructure, for protecting our environment, as the night grows to the end, we need to take this passion, not just to to vote foron, but hillary clinton this november to make this amendment and substitute a reality. thank you. [applause] >> are we ready for the vote? indicate by acclamation and your cards. all in favor. all in favor. bernie, bernie, bernie. >> all in favor.

all opposed. it is unanimous. unity motion passes unanimously. thank you. we are ready to vote. you ready to vote? are we ready to vote? all in favor indicate with your cards. all opposed? have it unanimously. congratulations. [applause] motion.ext >> amendment number 53 has been withdrawn. amendment number 55 has been withdrawn. an amendment number 74 has been withdrawn.

amendment number 103 has been withdrawn. amendment number 105 has been withdrawn. amendment number 111 has been withdrawn. >> one moment please. >> amendment 115 sponsored by mark, page 19, line 42, the proposed amendment is for this section to read as follows, resilient economic future, at the same time we will oppose threats to the public health of communities from harmful and dangerous extraction practices -- can we quiet down a little bit. thank you. will the sponsor please come forward? you have one minute. >> thank you. imr from washington, d.c. thank you for your time. often when we think about environmental justice, we think about urban communities, minorities, low income, we often don't about what is happening

and other parts of our country, and that includes parts where poor people live in appalachia, where people are suffering from mountaintop removal mining. you heard me right. even the purveyors don't try to fake it with a different name. they don't call it mountaintop scooping. coal it is a practice where they kill the top of a mountain, kill all the trees, take all the dirt off of it, and then a packet with dynamite and they blow up the top of the mountain, two football fields deep into the mountain, and they take that rubble, put it into the valley, poison the rivers, and they poison and they cause birth defects. i have behind me to communities that are representative and affected. for second -- 15 for

second could do have people standing in opposition to this? it is a unity of amendment, but i gather you want a few minutes to discuss it. let me make it one minute each. >> hello. my name is laura -- >> they have the right to do it. go right ahead. >> ok. my name is laura from the commonwealth of virginia. amendmentauthor of 53, which i withdrew so that i might join with my brother mark to support his amendment. me, one minute please. over in the corner, can we take it down a little bit? thank you. >> i wanted to add my comments to brother marks. mountaintop removal is intended

to sustain short-term access to call. the impact of this extraction method has had devastating impacts on the environment, many reversible. and on the health of workers and citizens of neighboring communities. we will fight mountaintop removal coal mining and create millions of good paying jobs by fundamentally transporting our energy system away from fossil feels and towards a sustainable energy like wind, solar, and geothermal. [applause] >> thank you. identify yourself. >> i will try to speak fast. from the day i was forced foreign was the day president .bama took office kentucky republicans like mitch mcconnell and rand paul likely in says that is all president obama's fault, that he went back in space and time to the decline of the industry, but the real blame relies on mountaintop

removal. it allowed them to replace the majority of their workforce with heavy equipment. removal has mountaintop cost thousands of kentuckians their jobs, but has made contributions to our status as one of the unhealthiest states in the union. health disparities exist in the coal mining regions of appellation compared with other parts of the region and nation, including elevated death rates. the people who live close to mountaintop removal sites are dying sooner than they should. birth defects or higher. this is due not just to toxic chemicals that permeate groundwater, including mercury, lead, arsenic, and plenty of things most of us could not pronounce, but the air around the site is of the dirty's in the nation and beautiful natural kentucky has the highest rates of lung cancer in the nation with epidemic rates of respiratory disease and heart failure. company can't turn a profit without killing your own workers, that is bad enough assuming those workers know what they're getting into, but if

your business cannot survive without poisoning children's drinking water, without making your neighbor sick, without lowering your entire's communities life expectancy, then you have no business being in business. it is past time for us to insist that the health and safety of our citizens are a higher priority than any single industries profit margin. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. two minutes and 30 seconds. >> sabrina from west virginia. i am grateful to be on the team. in a county where people on average are dying younger than most of the rest of the country. we have lost family members and friends before their time on this earth was up for many reasons. my best friends mom fell over dead right before my 32nd birthday and april. it was due to poisonous toxins. our birth plans have been flooded repeatedly. and god-given resources have been exploited.

in 2001, my grandmother 65 years old lived in her car for a year due to her home getting flooded. she struggles daily with various health issues and limited income, even though my grandfather was a coal miner. she has done her very best to be a successful businesswoman. a successful businesswoman. captioning performed by vitac plac last month west virginia was flooded 35-feet high in some places and homes were picked up and carried down the river and some caught on fire because of natural gas. many businesses are gone. many roads no longer exist and 23 people died. we had displaced communities and we need systems to put in place to protect our people, their homes and environments. we have been forced to be west virginia tough and grateful for not -- >> one minute. >> my life has been so hard dealing with these