Ed Markey, Cori Bush Introduce 'Environmental Justice Mapping' Bill

Sen. Ed Markey and Rep. Cori Bush introduced on Thursday the ''Environmental Justice Mapping and Data Collection Act of 2021'' to gather data and direct federal money to communities around the country they say face environmental injustice.

"Environmental justice is racial justice," Bush, who was a Black Lives Matter activist before winning election to the House of Representatives in 2020, said at the virtual press conference.

Markey said at the press conference that the bill is a tool to make sure the money is properly directed.

"That tool is going to be essential to direct at least 40 percent of the funding for a clean and climate safe future into communities facing environmental injustices," Markey said.

"When we talk about gun violence and when we talk about community violence, we're talking about where the disparities are to make sure that funding is there to fix decades of injustice that have opened the door to this," Bush said.

Bush said at the press conference that a safe environment is about more than air or water quality.

"If we fix those things, but if we continue to have this stressor [sic], this situation, where the police can just murder us disproportionately and without impunity, then did we fix our environment? Is our environment now safe?" Bush said.

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