It did not end well back then, and this will
not end well. Scott Pruitt, as attorney general of the State of
Oklahoma, has not demonstrated the qualities that are going to be
necessary in order to protect the environment of our country. Today, many of us recognized a day without an immigrants. Businesses
across the country closed, students did not attend classes, and workers
did not head to their jobs--in protest. In my own home State of
Massachusetts, the museum at Wellesley College took down all of the
works of art that were created and donated by immigrants. Bare walls,
empty desks, shuttered restaurants--all of these things--show us just
how essential, how fundamental immigrants are to our economy and to the
very fabric of our Nation. Now imagine if tomorrow we recognized a day without the Environmental
Protection Agency. Imagine that--with no Environmental Protection
Agency; no Clean Air Act enforcement; no clean water rule enforcement;
no one to clean up abandoned Superfund and toxic waste sites; more
climate change; more kids with asthma; more rivers with toxins running
through them; more families with cancer; more environmental injustice
for communities of color because it is those communities, the most
vulnerable communities, that will suffer the worst consequences on a
day without the EPA.
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