Thread by @zteirstein

Next up at the EJ forum: @ewarren
#ejpresforum

“It’s communities that are poor and communities of color. It’s about racism and economic injustice. It’s not enough to come out and say ‘I care about that.’ If you’re really serious you gotta have some concrete proposals.”

@ewarren “Here’s a radical notion, how about we don’t have a coal lobbyist to head up the EPA? How’s that for an idea” @ewarren #EnvironmentalJustice

@ewarren “What they burn in Ohio we breathe in Massachusetts and it’s hard on our children. I want to come in aggressively and treat this like the public health emergency that it is” @ewarren #ejpresforum

@ewarren “For me, what I have committed to do, is both create a position in the White House and to ask the groups that have been on the front lines to come together” and help build the solution. “You need national muscle, you need national will.”

@ewarren “You have to look at this holistically. You can’t just look at the factories. It’s also about lifting these communities up. It’s about investments in housing, schools.” - @ewarren

@ewarren “On federal lands that abut tribal lands, as president I will not approve any drilling, mining, pipelines that abut those lands unless they want those projects” - @ewarren

On federal lands: no new drilling, mining, or offshore drilling.

@ewarren “Climate change threatens every living thing on this planet. Everything else that we talk about depends on having an earth that we can live on for generations to come. The US is a leader on climate, we are, we’re just leading in the wrong direction right now.” - @ewarren

@ewarren How to hold polluters accountable for emissions?

Warren says:
Regulate.

@ewarren

@ewarren @CoryBooker has got to be sick of talking about being a vegan.

@ewarren @CoryBooker Had to take a break to ask Cory booker yet another question about his veganism

@ewarren @CoryBooker @JoeSestak is up. Who is that, you ask? We’re about to find out. He’s a military man. And he appears to regret throwing trash into the ocean as a young marine.

“How can you have more efficiency in operations so you don’t carry fuel to power your radio?” #ejpresforum

@ewarren @CoryBooker @JoeSestak “We need to make our government effective. When you have your epa have an office called the office of environmental justice but it doesn’t enforce?” Not sure where this was goin.

I don’t know if I’m allowed to tweet this but joe sestak is Michael Scott seasons 1-4 of The Office

@ewarren @CoryBooker @JoeSestak Joes segment was more about the military than it was about climate or environmental justice. Interesting! #EJPresForum