Sen. Merkley Chairs Hearing on the Environmental Justice Impacts of Plastic Production and Disposal

Senator Jeff Merkley chaired an Environment and Public Works Subcommittee hearing titled, “Impacts of Plastic Production and Disposal on Environmental Justice Communities” on June 15, 2023.

Witnesses included:
Angelle Bradford - Doctoral student in physiology and medicine at Tulane University School of Medicine, Volunteer Sierra Club Delta Chapter
Sharon Lavigne – Founder, Rise St. James
Chris Tandazo - Director of Government Affairs, New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance
Kevin Sunday - Director of Government Affairs, Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry
Donna Jackson - Director of Membership Development, Project 21 – National Center for Public Policy and Research

CONNECT WITH SENATOR MERKLEY:

[RS-tzzn]

Why would you invite a "Doctoral student in physiology and medicine" as a government expert on plastic? It was obvious she had no idea what she was talking about.

[hunk]

1:15:06 Sen. Mullin is smart with common sense.

[RyanK]

58:59
What about creating cutlery and reusable, or disposable, containers with landfill waste?
There's
super condensed landfill waste that can already be made into a solid brick, for building (Green Corps. in San Francisco proposed building a bench with that material-base; and, I believe they build with this material at UC Davis);
or,
old rubber tires? They take thousands of years to decompose regardless; it'd be such a waste to not reuse this type of resource, if it's innovative Economic implementations that we're all asking.

[RyanK]

@SenatorJeffMerkley
These are the deficits I'm finding mostly in our -redacted-
and so,
I'm hoping you don't mind my input:


As with current Climate Change issue(s), the way I see it:


Our,
-redacted- ARE
the largest burden(s) in Our Society

&

Our,
-redacted- ARE
considerably, our most Marginalized, Underserved, most Strained, most Relied-upon; our Nation's -redacted- that source, primarily, the totalitarity of our -redacted-


There's certainly a healthy medium and I want to stress a more balanced equality. Housing and Food Insecurities, surely, but our -redacted- are often short-sighted most.

Thank you

[BobbyLoo-jrys]

Angelle B. has plastic all over (use), she just doesn't want other to use it.

[yongkl]

This anti plastic people just dont understand how heavily they rely on plastic and dont live by what they preach provided no solution and alternatives

[leighstanicic]

Mullins is a clown. A lot of what he said was refuted by the other speakers, he had his dialogue tree he ran down while not contributing anything substantial.

[beechboi]

Here looking up Angelo’s Bradford she is gorgeous

[MIKEDIAMONDZ]

Thr e level of idiocy of Angelle is massiv, the accent is from california 😂

[JamesLerem]

Yeah horrible combination..what a waste.

[michaelgatten]

Angelle is so hot and her heart is in the right place