is that environmental justice? hell no. that is not environmental justice. the ambler road, this administration was reversed and supported by indigenous communities in alaska to create justice. when it comes to alaskan native people, indigenous people in my state, this administration targets them so often and their claims of environmental justice are just -- i don't know, they are really harming the people in my state, the indigenous people. i don't want an exception for environmental justice. this is not a controversial statement. indigenous people in alaska should be getting the same benefits that everybody else does under environmental justice, but they don't. i'm going to let that stand here, mr. chairman. it's a big issue for me. and hypocritical by the white house. let me ask a question, mr. sunday, ms. jackson and i worked hard on the issues of plastics and pollution and making sure that we don't pollute our oceans but one thing i do worry about is that if we crack down on plastics here, the production of that, it's just going to drive it overseas, chi

that's not environmental justice. we've had the alaska native vietnam veterans getting land native allotments to alaskan natives who served in vietnam. secretary holland won't implement that at all, because radical law 40 environmental groups don't want native americans who served in vietnam. when most people are avoiding service to get land. is that environmental justice? no. that is not environmental justice. the ambler road with this administration is not reversed. that was supported by a number of indigenous community in alaska. my point mr. chairman is when it comes to alaskan native people, indigenous people in my state. almost 20% of the population. this administration targets them so often, and their claims of environmental justice are just -- i don't know. they are harming the people of my state. particularly, the native people. indigenous people. it shouldn't be an exception. are you guys agreeing? this is not a controversial statement. indigenous people in alaska should be getting the same benefits that ever

welcome to the second in a series of hearings in the chemical safety waste management environmental justice regulatory oversight subcommittee on the environmental and public health dangers involved in the production use and disposal of plastic. i appreciate support of senator carper for the said adherence exploring these issues. in the first hearing, we establish that it has unique and amazing properties, a lot of specialized applications where these may be important and sometimes essential. the majority of plastics are single- use plastic. there are significant challenges or harms caused by plastics to human health to ecosystems and to the environment. today, we will hear from people who are impacted the most by plastics. those who live next to the studies were plastic is made. and facilities where is disposed of, often by burning, the goal is to better understand why plastic facilities are clumped together and the effect that they are having. you cannot tell the story of plastics without mentioning cancer alley. that is in louisiana. 85 mile section covering 11 parishes around the mississ

question for you is how has your work translated into outcomes for students and youth regarding environmental justice justice for the initiatives of the biden administration? >> we are justice adjacent on the, the environmental justice work that the environmental protection agency has a civil rights office who have jurisdiction over that question specifically. and i am impressed with and cheering on my colleagues there, but, but typically in environmental justice questions would go to that office for enforcement. we, there are certainly environmental justice issues that can come up in schools and, you know, and the, and the question of whether school facilities are safe and appropriate for students and whether there are differences in available resources by race or by other protected categories, it that, that we have jurisdiction over, we would be able to address that question. so for example, school communities are routinely lack air conditioning and it's, and it's unsafe for kids to be in them and it's too hot. you know, that's certainly an environmental justice question. it's also a racial justice

you know, the pricing for environmental justice for me is about lives. the life of communities, the hill, their right to nice, they are right to live. it was. so this is what the original game and just environment news for the whole we go i for next uh, the strong in touch. as for me personally, i've been affected because my son was exposed to med position and the slightest because of that avail. for my struggle, assume something that i have experienced from what she did when, when you're ready to clean, the drug is value to what can happen to the health and your life. in this case, that spots of your what is facing setbacks though the people of the oh, we know who wrote community for whom you lobbied, where do you compensation? but that has been over 10 by the court of appeal. so it's a struggle any different when you are up against this kind of grand institution. oh, yes it is. uh, in the previous government we had a position that was quite independent and the wives i'm quite up to just you can show your some kind of and the out to 1000000 really that'

also coming up after more than a decade, fighting for environmental justice, the kind of activist is named among the recipients of an award, often referred to as the old tentative nobel prize. she speaks to dw news africa, and then you kind and mother and baby were united up to 4 months of hans. we find out why campaign is one of the conclusion of this case to spock. legislative change the handle, i'm tony. a lot of people welcome to the program. for the 3rd time in 2 years, fronds is being forced to withdraw its troops from a west african country. first from molly, then book enough also. and now these, yeah, these 3 countries based just had hist, insurgencies, which the french would that to help suppress. but all 3 have since had military takeovers which the former colonial power has opposed. the 3 west african countries have since announced a new security packed to tackle that you had is to tax. thousands of people continued to flee. the violence though, as dw found from a village in these yeah, near the border with money and onset, and you live the idp kemp insect quota up to that

part of that is through the $3 billion of the environmental justice and climate resources that come from ira. but it's also part of justice 40. so we have the metrics built in place to ensure that communities are involved. we set up a national office and everything we do is through that lens of equity and inclusion. >> thank you. last year, you completed your journey to justice toward spotlighting environmental communities across the nation that have been neglected or ignored. as you may be well ignored, pipeline instra -- to support research and development and reducing methane emission tpr-s abandoned mines across the country. how is the epa using research and development into modeling and mitigate the emissions impact to communities that have born the most adverse socioeconomic from the health outcomes of energy resources? >> as we looked at the new proposed technology standard to control methane emissions, we had industry come to the table and said we are losing product, we are poisoning people in our community. there's a solution, and we believe that there are technologies that exis

part of that to $3 billion in environmental justice and climate resources that come from ira. also part of justice 40. we have the metrics built in place auteur communities are involved would set up a national office everything we do is through that lens of equity and inclusion. >> thank you britt lester you completed your journey to justice by letting environmental justice across the nation far too long have been neglected or ignored may well be aware the pipeline infrastructure is in close proximity to committees of color. hopefully successfully the welt remediation action through this committee to support research and development into reducing emissions from abandoned mines across the country. how is the epa using research and development into modeling to mitigate the emissions impact to communities that have historically borne the most adverse socioeconomic and health outcomes in the development of energy resources? >> as we have looked at the new proposed technology center to control method emissions event industry come to the table statement look at losing product or pois

there are certainly environmental justice issues i can come up in schools.stion of whether school facilities are safe and apart for students and whether there are differences and available resources by race or by other protective categories that we have jurisdiction over. we would be able to address the question. so, for example, school committees are routinely lacked airmm conditioning and it's an safe for kids the end, it's too hot, that's an environmental justice question also a racial justice question we would have jurisdiction over. so there are some places where we have an entrÉe and would be able to address the a questd there are some places where it would be more appropriately addressed to the epa office for civil rights but there also terrific and truly delighted to be on that work, too. >> thank you for coming and speak with us. i am a research associate on a k-12 teamo. here at cap and my question is depolarized khmers that exist on the internet what is a role of media literacy and teaching about online safety in the k-12 spaceto as it pertainso c

literacy for environmental justice, a community volunteer educational program involved with restoringats and preserving san francisco's unique bio tie varsity, teamed up with the redevelopment group to grow the 50,000 native plants to -- to repopulate treasure island. >> the city of san francisco set up meetings between leg and they came in with high expertise and urban design, and architecture, and green infrastructure, but they really hadn't worked with flytive plants -- worked with native plants at scale and they were also kind of scratching their heads, like how are we going to grow 50,000 native plants from remnant native plant populations. it was a unique partnership of figuring out what plants can grow, what plants will function in stormwater gardens. not all native plants are ascetically pleasing to landscape architect, so we kind of worked around what plants are going to be pleasant for people, what plants are going to provide habitat, what plants are going to actually be able to sequester carbon, deal with erosion, preserve the island biodiversity as well as be able to manag

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will understanding environmental justice issues with racial equity lens. city of dreams. so hay have served 4800 plus youth and families. and living in the bay vow since 2004. and the scope of the grant to provide environmental education workshops to bayview youth and create youth lead ziro waist community engagement project. we have ymca. so they are the leader in out door education promise the scope of the grant is to extend the zero waste program activities including after school programs and summer catches. youth train and development and field trips opportunity for programs to excess the wherevero waste programming space. thank you. >> thank you. would tonight's grantees like to speak? >> yes. please. i was wondering if we know examples of what these awe some programs are doing. i don't know you said that they like have wherevero wastey education i love that. >> are you a grantee. i' sorry. >> we will have public ment on this. >> okay. >> you can tell i'm new. >> no worries. >> any of tone's grantees are welcomeed speak on this item first before we go to discussion by

also coming up after more than a decade, fighting for environmental justice, a kind of an activist is named among the recipients of an award, often referred to as the old tentative nobel prize. she speaks to dw news after.

and the million dollars to the group in new york, the quote-unquote environmental justice group, they more of the taxpayers' money. it's typical of the appropriations bills. there's more pressure at the end of the year with a shutdown. there's really only been one time in history that a government shutdown hasn't led to more spending, and that was a deal way back in 1996. elizabeth: sow -- so, yeah, a way back in '99 # 6. a $4 million sewer hine for a city of less than 100 people in the tiny city of pelican, alaska? that's more than 40 grand per person. and then a tiny airport in maine gets $20 the.5 million for their minuscule international airport? this is like the bridges to nowhere fight under george w. bush. >> well,s the airport has two flights a day by united airlines to knew work, which is their, quote-unquote, international connection, and it's the only open two hours for the first flight and two hours for the second flight. so that is a massive waste of money. people can drive to the nearest airport, it'd be cheaper to buy them all cars, the people that leave there. earmarks

with justice 40 is there is a tendency to mostly include programs that are sort of legacy environmental justicegrams like weatherization, energy efficiency, or just programs that are sort of sideload in the environmental justice camp and not necessarily spending related to the energy transition more broadly. so i am calling for justice 42 cover all of that. amy: we just have less than a minute to go. >> does in fact benefit everyone if all of this spending is included. at the same time, i do note funding for projects and technologies that frontline communities have repeatedly opposed, say, carbon capture and storage, that should not be included in justice 40. at the end of the day, it is disrespectful if that is not actually division that frontline communities have for their role in the green transition. they want to get polluting infrastructure out entirely. we should be investing in renewable energy projects they are asking for whether that is community solar, microgrids, public own and provided energy microgrids most of those are the sort of things that over and over frontline communities an

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it doesn't really serve any useful purpose, and there is a social environmental justice aspect to this, as well, because poor people in racial ethnic minorities were significantly affected by light pollution. >> yeah, a lot of research on. that let's talk about marin down, are you encouraged by the progress on this, because they've been working on this for a couple of years? >> i am encouraged by their progress, i'm confident they'll get to the goal they see in this case. it takes a lot of work to changes hearts and minds of people, to raise awareness of the issue as many people don't know about it, and i think group in marin has been doing an admirable job towards all of those ends. >> john, as you said many people don't know about it, so people watching at home, what would you say to get them on board with these kinds of changes? >> i would say we're not out to turn all the lights in the world but improve nighttime lighting to reduce waste, and we could take care of half of the problem straightaway and in the process, we would end up with a generally more healthy environment. it's a

maria: time for the morning was environmental justice vice president kamala harris and her fight her me get this straight it does have anything to do with the biden administration policies the same mortgage rate is a 7% and the reason they're not buying homes in its climate anxiety. >> there's so much wrong with the statement underlying premise behind it. you get the main point obviously. the fact that people are so darn poor and that leads them to not want to have kids. another issue happening in colleges were there indoctrinating the kids to say you can't have another kid because of one kid will destroy the environment. i completely disagree with that because is complete lunacy. it is insanity. maria: do you know where climate anxiety is, 91-dollar a barrel oil. undermining any efforts to take inflation down. >> the amount to borrow a term from the left, misinformation to convince a young person that the biggest threat to their future well-being is climate change and not the lawlessness in cities and their inability to afford anything that their parents had been good paying jobs ar

this administration talks a lot about environmental justice and environmental equity. i thought in your bio. i have no issue with that. i said in this committee a one million times. if you are in alaska native or an indigenous person from alaska, you don't -- you get attacked by this administration. we had another legal outrage that the administration canceled leases. you had to do it. it was decided by congress over 70 years ago. i want to submit the joint alaska delegation on this for the record. the vast majority of the people on this press release are alaska natives. they are screaming what are you doing? are you taking away our jobs? i have every day with this administration. why did they get so outraged? i want to show you this. that is the american medical association chart. that is from 19802014. america life expectancy increases. also, life expectancy decreases. the place in our country that increased 11 expectancy the most by far, alaska. up 13 years. our rural community's and indigenous communities. life expected super native alaskans was the lowest in the c

environmental justice and jobs of the frontline with black community suffered legacy of pollution likena and route nine and delaware. thanks to my justice initiative to disadvantage in underserved communities like electrifying school buses so kids don't have tab polluted air with diesel buses. all of this matters pretty made a promise in my campaign for the first black woman on the united states supreme court. [cheering] and i meant to, we did it with the support of the cbc ketanji brown jackson is on the bed she's the brightest of anyone on the bench. i want to publicly thank cory booker and dick durbin on the committee for getting it done. look, with their help i've appointed more black women appellate judges and any other president in the history of united states combined. more than everyone. with the largest increase in pell grants it over a decade helping students and families who nearly make less than 60000 bucks a year to afford college. it matters more than 70% of black undergraduates, borrowers are pell grant recipients it matters. our new student debt repayment plan is when h

environmental justice isn't any such thing. it is an alice in wonderland level of gaslighting that is destroying our ability to produce energy, grow food and provide affordable housing. congress' power is in the purse and we must exercise that power by ensuring that there are no funds going to anything that doesn't secure our border. and for my colleagues across the aisle, 11,000 illegal border crossers a day does not count for border security. i urge my colleagues to support amendment 62 and i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentlewoman reserves. for what purpose does the gentleman seek recognition? mr. cuellar: i claim the time in opposition. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. cuellar: i rise in opposition to this amendment for the opposition and i ask -- i encourage my colleagues to vote no. i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman yields. the gentlewoman is recognized. ms. hageman: again, mr. chairman, i think i've made my point with these three amendments. purpo

the mayor's office of housing and community development, as well as sf toxic reduction and environmental justice teams and property developers and managers. i want to give major props to my predecessor for their hard work on leading this project. we recently got the good news that we secured additional grant funding from the california department of pesticide regulation to continue this work and ray, with us, he's the environmental justice program that will be spear heading the continued work. i'm continuing our key accomplishments from last year here. we are continue to convene our monthly public ipm meetings despite our challenges of being short staffed and we have been holding these meetings virtually and some of the topics we discussed include invasive plant management, restoration and enhancement, aquatic ecology and vector control. they provide really good forums for ipm professionals to exchange tips and guidance while avoiding the use of harmful pesticides. we have also continued to convene annual ipm trainings for city departments and a variety of topics are covered in these trainings a

we want to demonstrate that the fuck is committed to building peace with social and environmental justice. bringing to the negotiating table, this events, groups that have rejected previous at the time. so these was one of the government's biggest challenges and it represents real progress for patriotism, vicious goals. for now, it's just the start, but one that represents a much needed relief for housings of colombians still caught in the crossfire of this ever mutating internal conflict. i listened that i'm get the, i just need a book that well, that's it for me, this sounds your time. you can always find watchable on a website out of there or don't come next inside story. we'll take a look at the implications of the united states around christmas. 11 is often on tuesday with the i had a long day with things in very unsettled weather across europe at the moment. and there's more of that sort come because there's one front push this way for the east taking the rain with it and knocking temperatures down. we've got another one that's coming in from the west. now between these 2 systems, w

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have much more focus on the environmental, you know, sort of the environmental impacts and environmental justice concerns with the electric vehicle and battery value chain. in particular. i want to highlight that, you know, it's easy to start demonizing this one part of the vehicle is this, these challenges of these new supply chains that are forming? mm hm. but actually this is a great advantage because we're not going to change the fossil fuels of value chain just by continuing to drive gasoline vehicles. and so we can do better, but we shouldn't allow the challenges of the value chain to prevent us from electrify. yeah that's, that's a good point to us, but i think we won't do better unless we actually see where those challenges are. and christina, you mentioned cobalt comes from other places. i'd like to bring them one of those other places. this is a, another voice from someone in our community named stephanie king killing son. and she is a documentary filmmaker listen with us or so when people buy that shining tests, i don't think about the costs that it's being paid to create that vehicle

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we want to demonstrate that the fuck is committed to building peace with social and environmental justice, bringing to the nig. busy shaping table, this events, groups that had rejected previous at the time. so these was one of the governments biggest challenges and it represents real progress for papers and bases goals. for now, it's just the start, but one that represents a much needed relief for housings of colombians still caught in the crossfire of this ever mutating internal conflict. i listened that i'm get the, i just need a book that the hello, this is al jazeera, these all the headlines, funerals are being held in the occupied west bank at the number of palestinians dead and is ready. rates rises to 5. says he, others were injured when is my lowest and so unless you need messages meanwhile and cause that one kind of thing and protests or has been killed 9 of those inches of the is randy forces that opens flat along the eastern border. there were protests on that proto earlier this week is really in cousins deluxe and most compounds in occupied is theresa.

will understanding environmental justice issues with racial equity lens. city of dreams. so hay have served 4800 plus youth and families. and living in the bay vow since 2004. and the scope of the grant to provide environmental education workshops to bayview youth and create youth lead ziro waist community engagement project. we have ymca. so they are the leader in out door education promise the scope of the grant is to extend the zero waste program activities including after school programs and summer catches. youth train and development and field trips opportunity for programs to excess the wherevero waste programming space. thank you. >> thank you. would tonight's grantees like to speak? >> yes. please. i was wondering if we know examples of what these awe some programs are doing. i don't know you said that they like have wherevero wastey education i love that. >> are you a grantee. >> i'm sorry. >> we will have public ment on this. >> okay. >> you can tell i'm new. >> no worries. >> any of tone's grantees are welcomeed speak on this item first before we go to discussio

(indiscernible) community foundation for social and environmental justice and my community is (indiscernible) >> is there someone else who would like to make public comment, please? if you feel comfortable saying your name, please do so. >> my name is camilla eelm with all things bayview and i just have to want to first thank you for giving us the grace as you hear us fighting for our lives. i find myself again behind a podium begging for my life. i just want to start off with the inadequate and inaccurate statement on the memo, which states the hunter point naval shipyard is a federal super fund site and actively being clean up by the navy. that is mistruth on the first line. they plan on capping radio active toxic waste at the shoreline as we are facing climate change, sea level rise and ground water rise, and again i appreciate you know, susan phillip coming up here but she reminded me of a care giver taking care of a hospice patient as they are waiting to die. as a third generation impacted bayview hunter point resident and front line mobilizer and organizer, i'm gravely concerned your a