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My Testimony on the CLEAN Future Act and Environmental Justice: Protecting Frontline Communities


My Testimony on the CLEAN Future Act and Environmental Justice: Protecting Frontline Communities
My Testimony on the CLEAN Future Act and Environmental Justice: Protecting Frontline Communities
Adrienne Hollis,
Senior Climate Justice and Health Scientist | April 21, 2021, 10:40 am EDT
On Thursday, I testified before the Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. I am sharing a significantly shortened version of my oral testimony in this blog, but I urge you to read my written testimony, complete with graphics, here. More importantly, the entire hearing was recorded, and you should watch it here.
The hearing discussed the importance of 11 legislative submissions on environmental justice communities, including Black people, Latinx people, Native Americans and Indigenous Peoples. The legislations included: H.R. 1512, the “Climate Leadership and En ....

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When Climate Change and Xenophobia Collide


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On August 31, 2019, Nadia, a stoic thirty-nine-year-old in pigtails, heard a voice through a loudspeaker on a vehicle circling the Mudd, her tranquil neighborhood in the Bahamas. “Seek shelter!” the voice said. For days, Nadia’s two sons, aged six and ten, had been watching news reports about an incoming storm called Hurricane Dorian, which broadcasters warned would cause historic destruction on the islands. “Mom, a big one’s coming,” Nadia’s ten-year-old, a skinny, bright-eyed math whiz named Kesnel, said. “We’d better board up the windows.” The next day, as the storm descended, Nadia and her sons ran to a local church for refuge. Water rushed over the chapel’s floorboards and rose past the children’s knees. Nadia wished that she could have fled the Bahamas before Dorian hit, but, like several thousands of her fellow-Haitians living there, she was undocumented, and wouldn’t have been allowed to return. (To protect them from ....

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Biden Interior nominee discusses environmental injustice with tribal leaders


Haaland, if confirmed, would become the first Native American Cabinet secretary in U.S. history.
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The New Mexico lawmaker told leaders at the meeting that she plans to work toward Biden’s goal of using the climate crisis to create “good-paying union jobs” and promote clean energy sources, according to Biden’s transition team. 
Haaland who was joined in the meeting by Rep. Cedric Richmond
Biden’s pick for Haaland to lead the Department of Interior has triggered excitement among Native Americans who expect to finally have representation in the administration. 
The Department of the Interior, which works with the U.S.’s 574 federally recognized tribes, oversees the Bureau of Indian Education and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which organizes law enforcement on reservations.  ....

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