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MURKOWSKI’S INFLUENCE: Centrist Republican
Lisa Murkowski exercised her huge influence today by
Deb Haaland to be Interior secretary.
Murkowski’s vote enabled Haaland’s nomination to be moved to the Senate floor on a bipartisan basis. All other Republicans opposed her because of her liberal credentials and past opposition to fossil fuel development.
“Cancer Alley” in L.A., in a mostly African American area, is rife with refineries, plastic plants and chemical facilities. Photo: Gines A. Sanchez
“To be poor means that you are living in environments that you don’t control,” said Donna Givens Davidson, president and CEO of Eastside Community Network in Detroit, and a new faculty member in the Earth Institute’s Master of Science in Sustainability Management program. “And it means that people who have more power and money have a way of using those environments for dumping, using those environments for waste. And then, because you don’t have political capital, you don’t even have the means to say, ‘Let’s create buffers and protect ourselves.’”
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WHAT NONPROFITS WANT IN THE RELIEF BILL: As the Senate prepares for days of grueling debate on the White House’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill, the nonprofit industry is among the sectors still lobbying for assistance. As of Tuesday, more than 3,000 nonprofit organizations have signed on to a January letter to congressional leaders laying out the sector’s asks.