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Featuring: Jahana Hayes, Democratic | U.S. House, Connecticut, District 5

Earth Day Celebration featuring Brenda Mallory, Jahana Hayes (CT 5th), and Richard Blumenthal

Published April 30, 2024 | Video Starts at 1:03:21

We're so grateful. Let us know how we can help and support you. And good luck with the rest of your day. Thank you, guys. Have a great day. And thank you for doing this again, for having really amplifying this conversation. It's so important. Thank you. All right, so we are a little bit past one and thank you so much for joining us. (1:03:21–1:03:29)

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Jahana Hayes

“Young people have done an amazing job of just making it clear that these are issues that are important to them.”
Earth Day Celebration featuring Brenda Mallory, Jahana Hayes (CT 5th), and Richard Blumenthal | Uploaded April 30, 2024 | 47:38-47:47
“Their generation has really taken a leading role and really began to ask tough questions about what will my future be like if we don't…”
Earth Day Celebration featuring Brenda Mallory, Jahana Hayes (CT 5th), and Richard Blumenthal | Uploaded April 30, 2024 | 47:53-48:03
“They are the ones who are doing the hard work, who are really looking at this in a forward thinking way.”
Earth Day Celebration featuring Brenda Mallory, Jahana Hayes (CT 5th), and Richard Blumenthal | Uploaded April 30, 2024 | 48:08-48:15
“Many of them share [climate change and sustainability issues] out amongst their networks and in their friend groups.”
Earth Day Celebration featuring Brenda Mallory, Jahana Hayes (CT 5th), and Richard Blumenthal | Uploaded April 30, 2024 | 48:31-48:37
“Many of these young people are engaged in citywide cleanups and cleaning up parks and rivers.”
Earth Day Celebration featuring Brenda Mallory, Jahana Hayes (CT 5th), and Richard Blumenthal | Uploaded April 30, 2024 | 49:27-49:34
“You mentioned Waterbury, which is the biggest city in my district, and we've done a lot of work around, you know, through the EPA, with…”
Earth Day Celebration featuring Brenda Mallory, Jahana Hayes (CT 5th), and Richard Blumenthal | Uploaded April 30, 2024 | 51:38-51:50
“Actually, today, many of the votes that we are taking are on this very issue, you know, protecting our national parks, you know, some of our…”
Earth Day Celebration featuring Brenda Mallory, Jahana Hayes (CT 5th), and Richard Blumenthal | Uploaded April 30, 2024 | 52:56-53:07
“There are lots of, for instance, land trusts throughout the fifth district and I, a huge effort around conservation and protecting open…”
Earth Day Celebration featuring Brenda Mallory, Jahana Hayes (CT 5th), and Richard Blumenthal | Uploaded April 30, 2024 | 54:45-55:05
“When we have students, where in the inner city, where the highest rate of absenteeism is from asthma related illnesses, where we are talking…”
Earth Day Celebration featuring Brenda Mallory, Jahana Hayes (CT 5th), and Richard Blumenthal | Uploaded April 30, 2024 | 55:16-55:31
“Everyone deserves access to clean water.”
Earth Day Celebration featuring Brenda Mallory, Jahana Hayes (CT 5th), and Richard Blumenthal | Uploaded April 30, 2024 | 56:29-56:33
“Everyone deserves access to air that their children can breathe safely.”
Earth Day Celebration featuring Brenda Mallory, Jahana Hayes (CT 5th), and Richard Blumenthal | Uploaded April 30, 2024 | 56:33-56:38
“I just co-sponsored a piece of legislation to plant trees in the cities.”
Earth Day Celebration featuring Brenda Mallory, Jahana Hayes (CT 5th), and Richard Blumenthal | Uploaded April 30, 2024 | 56:46-57:03
“Most of our inner cities are, I think it's about seven degrees hotter because there's no shade cover.”
Earth Day Celebration featuring Brenda Mallory, Jahana Hayes (CT 5th), and Richard Blumenthal | Uploaded April 30, 2024 | 57:03-57:09
“Many of our public housing projects have no trees.”
Earth Day Celebration featuring Brenda Mallory, Jahana Hayes (CT 5th), and Richard Blumenthal | Uploaded April 30, 2024 | 57:09-57:13
“I fought so hard for clean school bus funding to go to some of our most affected areas.”
Earth Day Celebration featuring Brenda Mallory, Jahana Hayes (CT 5th), and Richard Blumenthal | Uploaded April 30, 2024 | 58:00-58:07
“When we passed the Inflation Reduction Act, it was the first of its kind investments [in climate initiatives].”
Earth Day Celebration featuring Brenda Mallory, Jahana Hayes (CT 5th), and Richard Blumenthal | Uploaded April 30, 2024 | 59:57-1:00:04
“The infrastructure bill has consideration for climate initiatives.”
Earth Day Celebration featuring Brenda Mallory, Jahana Hayes (CT 5th), and Richard Blumenthal | Uploaded April 30, 2024 | 1:00:05-1:00:12
“We are talking about workforce development and training in clean energy sector.”
Earth Day Celebration featuring Brenda Mallory, Jahana Hayes (CT 5th), and Richard Blumenthal | Uploaded April 30, 2024 | 1:00:11-1:00:17
“We have a farm bill that we have to pass, and a lot of the, what we're pushing for in the farm bill will address some of these same climate…”
Earth Day Celebration featuring Brenda Mallory, Jahana Hayes (CT 5th), and Richard Blumenthal | Uploaded April 30, 2024 | 1:01:27-1:01:38
“One of the first pieces of legislation that I introduced when I came into Congress [was] the Clean School Bus Act.”
Earth Day Celebration featuring Brenda Mallory, Jahana Hayes (CT 5th), and Richard Blumenthal | Uploaded April 30, 2024 | 1:02:24-1:02:39
“To see billions of dollars in investment in year four [for the Clean School Bus Act].”
Earth Day Celebration featuring Brenda Mallory, Jahana Hayes (CT 5th), and Richard Blumenthal | Uploaded April 30, 2024 | 1:02:38-1:02:43