Alleged Democratic candidate Joe Biden
Joe Biden: The Hill Campaign Report: The second round elections in Texas, Alabama, scheduled for Tuesday, the Biden campaign criticizes the White House attacks on Fauci as “disgusting.” Biden allows Trump to be Trump MORE On Tuesday, he launched a $ 2 trillion plan to tackle climate change with an emphasis on correcting racial economic disparities.
Speaking from a gym in his home state of Delaware, Biden argued that communities of color have been especially victims of corporate polluters.
He said those communities have borne “the environmental and health burdens, but have not shared any of the gains.”
“As we do this work, we must be aware of the historical errors and damage that American industries have caused in the 21st century, inflicting environmental damage on poor and vulnerable communities, often black and brown and Native American communities. “Biden said.
“Contained water is included here, toxins that are dumped on communities that bear environmental and health burdens, but do not share any of the gains. Growing up and breathing that every day is poison,” he added.
“It is in part why there are such incredible rates of childhood asthma in black and brown communities. Why African Americans are almost three times more likely to die of asthma-related causes than white Americans. It is the cancer alley in St James Parish in Louisiana and cancer causing clusters around Route 9 here in Delaware, ”he also said.
Biden said poor communities and communities of color would receive 40 percent of the investments he is proposing to build new sustainable homes, reduce pollution, and invest in workforce development and clean energy transportation.
“This is an area of incredible opportunities for growth in our country, but we have to make sure that the first people to benefit from this are the people who were the most historically affected in the last century by the existing structural disparities,” Biden said. said.
The former vice president’s recently introduced infrastructure and climate plan targets carbon-free electricity generation by 2035. The plan would invest in 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations, while providing new government jobs to plug abandoned oil wells, among other initiatives.
A major emphasis of the climate plan is aimed at addressing racial inequality, which has become a top concern for Democrats following the death of George Floyd while in police custody.
The Biden plan would review the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of External Civil Rights Compliance to give a new approach to how companies have “allowed state environmental agencies to issue dangerous permits and conduct their business in a way that hurts to communities “of color.
Biden says he will use a new screening tool to publish annual maps that “identify disadvantaged communities; including disproportionately loaded tribal areas” to ensure that companies do not take advantage of that land to pollute air and water.
The Biden plan will also establish an Environmental and Climate Justice Division within the Justice Department to “pursue pollution cases” and “hold corporate executives personally accountable.”
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