House Judiciary Democrats Bring in Racially Charged ‘Climate Justice’ Activist to Testify on Administrative StateAshley Oliver 1 Dec 2021
The House Judiciary Committee Democrats led by chairman Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) called in a climate extremist to their hearing on Wednesday who will testify that the process of federal agency rulemaking is killing the environment and disadvantaging mainly racial minorities.
Jacqui Patterson’s testimony, reviewed by Breitbart News in advance of the 10:00 a.m. hearing, details who she believes “is paying the price for a regulatory system that is being governed, de facto, by polluters” through the Administrative Procedure Act.
Patterson cites that industry groups, which have dominated influence over the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) rule-making process, are one such example of “polluters.”
“EPA records from 1994 to 2009 found that industry groups held a virtual monopoly over informal communications that happened before proposed rules on hazardous air pollutants were publicly available,” the witness notes in her testimony.
Patterson lists the following as victims of federal regulations:
Indigenous women who have been sexually assaulted along the under regulated oil and gas pipelines.
As we described in our Fumes Across the Fenceline Report, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities are on the frontlines of the health, social, economic, and political impacts of being impacted by the toxic exposure, by the displacement due to under regulated fossil fuel infrastructure.
BIPOC communities on the frontlines of near roadway air pollution from the under-regulated combustible engine.
BIPOC and low-income communities and nations disproportionately impacted by climate change due to barely fettered greenhouse gas emissions.
And as we detail in our Coal Blooded: Putting Profits Before People Report, according to the Department of Labor, 76,000 coal miners who have died of black lung disease while the amount of coal dust to which they were exposed went unregulated.
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