Katie Porter: “We can collect our fair share from the companies that are…”

“So I think it's really, really important that we, that we pass this legislation. I think when we talk about how can we afford this or that environmental thing, here's an easy answer. We can collect our fair share from the companies that are making money off our public lands. and we can take that money which is owed to us for using our public lands and put it right back in to remediation efforts, things like reclaiming abandoned wells, dealing with coastal resilience, all of those priorities.” (18:21–18:28)

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