Friend,
The climate crisis doesn’t just hurt our environment; it hurts our most vulnerable communities. It’s why we must fight for environmental justice everywhere. But what does environmental justice mean?
The environmental justice movement addresses this fact: people who live, work and play in America's most polluted areas are people of color and the poor.
These communities are targeted to host facilities that have negative environmental impacts, like landfills or chemical plants.
Cancer. Asthma. Lead poisoning. The effects of environmental injustice are devastating.
It’s why I’m fighting for a Green New Deal. Sign here to join me in that fight.
The Green New Deal lays out plans to “promote justice and equity” by addressing that Indigenous people, communities of color, low-income people, people with disabilities and other “frontline and vulnerable communities,” are often disproportionately burdened by pollution and climate change.
That hits close to home for many Mainers, who face environmental injustice every day:
Over 100,000 Mainers suffer from well water tainted by arsenic, which is linked to learning disabilities and bladder cancer. Yet wells remain exempt from testing requirements.
Maine struggles with lead poisoning of children and asthma, which is triggered by mold in old buildings. Those health burdens fall primarily on lower-income renters, including recent immigrants.
Maine continues to work to overturn the water quality standards set by the Obama administration and deny tribal sustenance fishing rights.
Sign here if you agree: it’s time for a Green New Deal.
I’m fighting for a Green New Deal because all people should have a healthy environment where they live, work and play, regardless of race, culture, income.
It’s time to step up for our neighbors. It’s time for a Green New Deal.
In Solidarity,
Betsy
Betsy Sweet for U.S. Senate
PO Box 487
Hallowell, ME 04347
United States
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