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People. it is about, you know, black and brown communities. it is about communities that have experienced poverty. and in all of those communities have been disproportionately impacted by the change that we are seeing in our climate, not to mention the kind of behaviors by the fossil fuel industry that have been about pollution, about dumping and all of that. let me take you back to 2000 and -- i think it was 2004 when i was district attorney of san francisco and created the first environmental justice unit of my office. and one of the reasons is that there is a community in san francisco call...

No community should be less than. you know, those communities that have power and influence and access to power and influence -- and as attorney general there is a community in california called miraloma, a small community of families where the grandmothers had for years been asking people in power to take seriously the fact that the babies in that community were -- were -- had the lowest rate of lung development of any children in the area. and i intervened. and i say all that to say that part of how i approach in issue is to say that it should be our responsibility -- and i have always consi...