Sen. Cory Booker unveiled a $3 trillion plan to tackle climate change and invest heavily in cleaning up polluted sites around the country that disproportionately affect low-income and communities of color
to tackle climate change and invest heavily in cleaning up polluted sites around the country that disproportionately affect low-income and communities of color.
Other aspects of the plan are explicitly geared at helping poor communities. Booker would send Congress legislation creating the Environmental Justice Fund, which would use a $50 billion annual investment to replace all lead drinking water pipes, clean up polluted sites around the country and ensure proper wastewater disposal for households. Booker also pulls from the
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