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going to hear from senator cory booker, but we want to get more of your questions now for former congressman beto o rourke. so let s bring in now i want to bring in peggy shepherd, congressman. bring her into the conversation. she is a co-founder and executive director of we act for environmental justice, based in new york. right on. new york city. getting lots of applause. a group that fights for equal environmental protections for people of color and low-income residents. peggy, what s your question. yes, good evening. good evening. an important environmental justice concern is extreme heat, which kills more residents each year than storm surge. so what would you do to address this issue through building codes or policies that really begin to address the escalating energy costs and the lack of air conditioning, and the lack of the ability to pay for air conditions by vulnerable populations. over 31% over 31 million households in this country are energy insecure.
peggy, thanks for the work that you re doing. thank you for asking the question. and thank you for pointing out a very real and present crisis that we have in this country. right now and across much of the world. we talked about the ability to spend on helping those communities who are on the front lines of climate change right now through the revenues from a cap and trade system. so that means that those communities very often lower income and right now race and ethnicity is the best predictor to your proximity to a polluter are first in line to get the help that they need, that they deserve and that they ve missed for generations. this is a personal issue for me. el paso, texas is the second fastest warming city in the united states of america today. we ve had more than 14 days over 100 degrees over the month of august, which broke the record for as long as we ve been setting records in our community, and i ll tell you something, peggy and don, my