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Ayanna Pressley: “We have to stop allowing corporations to poison the…”

Featuring: Ayanna Pressley, Democratic | U.S. House Massachusetts, 7th Congressional District

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Ayanna Pressley Spotlights Flood Risk in Boston, Calls for Protections for Frontline Communities

Published | Video Starts at 08:25

At this very moment what we need are more solutions and less problems. So that's why we have to stop cutting FEMA's workforce. We have to stop defunding community grants. We have to stop allowing corporations to poison the environment, exacerbate the climate crisis. Congress needs to pass legislation that helps frontline communities and advances environmental justice. I don't believe that homeowners should be punished by the government because a flood happened. (08:25–08:31)

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Asserts that corporations are contributing to environmental harm and worsening the climate crisis.

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