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NEW: @CoryBooker is in South Carolina today to announce his environmental justice plan to help vulnerable communities by strengthening the Environmental Protection Agency.
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@CoryBooker The Trump administration has gutted the EPA, rolled back clean air and clean water protections, allowed polluters to go unchecked.

@CoryBooker Cory's plan would:
1. force companies that pollute to pay to clean up their pollution by reauthorizing and tripling the Superfund tax on chemical and oil companies.

@CoryBooker 2. protect marginalized communities suffering from environmental injustices by increasing staffing at the EPA’s Environmental Justice Office and the External Civil Rights Enforcement Office by ten times.

@CoryBooker 3. increase efforts to defend communities of color, low income communities, and indigenous communities by doubling staffing in all EPA enforcement offices.

@CoryBooker 4. safeguarding the basic human right of safe drinking water, by increasing resources for investigation and enforcement of violation of the Safe Drinking Water Act standards for public water systems.

@CoryBooker 5. end the plague on communities caused by lead paint by requiring responsible paint companies to pay for cleanup and abatement.

@CoryBooker 6. strengthening bankruptcy laws so that polluting companies can't evade responsibility for environmental cleanups.

@CoryBooker 7. and finally put the overall health of communities ahead of corporations by requiring the EPA to consider the level of existing pollution in the area before granting or renewing any new Clean Air Act or Clean Water Act permits.

#Cory2020 #JusticeForAllTour