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 Environmental Action
The Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change of the Committee on Energy and Commerce will hold a legislative hearing on Thursday, April 15, 2021, at 10:30 a.m. via Cisco WebEx. The hearing is entitled, The CLEAN Future Act and Environmental Justice: Protecting Frontline Communities.
Larroque are co-chairs of the San Diego-Tijuana Smart Border Coalition. Williams lives in La Jolla. Larroque lives in Coronado.
At first glance, it looked like a bombshell headed for the San Diego-Tijuana region and other communities along the border: a federal proposal to raise the frequency of border inspections to a level that could fatally slow cross-border movement.
For the record:
11:37 AM, Mar. 03, 2021An editing error in this column was fixed on March 3.
Heaven knows events and decisions far from our region have repeatedly delivered shocks to San Diego County’s 60-mile boundary with Mexico and our eight U.S. and Mexican crossings. For instance, late last spring we suffered massive traffic back-ups in Tijuana. Passenger vehicle wait times in Ready and All-Traffic lanes reached four, five and even eight hours. The Securing
Vázquez is the executive director of Organizing For Progress and is a transfronterizo who lives in the San Diego and Tijuana region.
In states along the U.S.-Mexico border, one thing that is very clear is that local and state governments are on the same page when it comes to awareness of binational economies in their bordering cities. The states of Baja California and California, for example, have a solid history of working in partnership to improve their ever more interdependent economies.
However, when it comes to the views of the local and federal governments, what we see rather is a very clear disconnect between them.
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