it seems difficult to talk about putting in place a project that deals with racial discrimination when you can’t use race in evaluating it. It’s real… - Beverly Wright

it is important to recognize that governments seldom initiate action to address environmental problems. Governments generally respond to outside pressure, and this pressure must be applied over an extended period of time to achieve lasting results.

After Katrina, trying to get back to the city was awful for Black people and we still haven’t fully recovered.

Any climate bill has to deal with both repairing EJ communities and reducing climate change. The fact of the matter is that they go hand in hand, because one of the reasons that we are the way we are is because of what we’ve done to communities of color across this country — putting fossil fuel industry facilities in our communities, not caring about our health or our lives, that’s why we’re here. We can’t move forward without addressing that.