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</div><div>Project 21 / June 14, 2023</div><div>This week Donna Jackson, the director of membership development for the Project 21 black leadership network, participated in a<b> Heritage Foundation panel event about electric vehicles</b> …</div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><h2 itemprop="name" class="entry_title" style="text-transform: uppercase; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span itemprop="dateCreated" class="date entry_date updated" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px;">8 OCT 2022</span> DONNA JACKSON: THE MINORITY EXPLOITATION GAME CALLED ‘ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE’</font></h2><div class="single_tags clearfix" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 1px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px;"><div class="tags_text" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><h5 style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 26px; display: inline-block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></h5> <a href="https://nationalcenter.org/ncppr/tag/project-21-commentary/" rel="tag" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 12px; text-transform: uppercase;">PROJECT 21 COMMENTARY</a></div></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div class="post_info" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; display: inline-block; width: 955px; visibility: hidden !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 20px 0px 22px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It should be no surprise that the</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> monumentally misnamed Inflation Reduction Act </b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">is filled with provisions likely to accomplish something other than the advertised purpose. Perhaps </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">phoniest of all are the “environmental justice”</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> measures that, in truth, will inflict injustice on the very people and communities the statute’s proponents claim to be helping.</span></font></p><div id="attachment_44715" class="wp-caption alignright" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; opacity: 1; float: right; max-width: 100%; width: 224px;"><a href="https://nationalcenter.org/ncppr/staff/donna-jackson-2/" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-44715" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-44715" src="http://nationalcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Donna-Jackson-214x300.jpg" alt="Donna Jackson" width="214" height="300" srcset="https://nationalcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Donna-Jackson-214x300.jpg 214w, https://nationalcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Donna-Jackson.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px" style="height: auto; max-width: 100%; border: none;" /></font></a><p id="caption-attachment-44715" class="wp-caption-text" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 24px; opacity: 1; width: 224px; text-align: center; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Donna Jackson</font></p></div><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 20px 0px 22px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Building on some Biden administration outlays for environmental justice, the Inflation Reduction Act allocates $60 billion to address the purportedly disproportionate effects of pollution on the least fortunate. This includes an extra helping of handouts based on the assumption that climate change harms the poor and minorities more than everyone else. To put a little context around this, $60 billion is roughly the market capitalization of Ford Motor Co. — a global corporation employing 200,000 employees worldwide. You can be sure that Ford, through job creation alone, is far more effective at uplifting minorities and the less fortunate than the Inflation Reduction Act.</font></p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 20px 0px 22px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The statute contains a long list of environmental programs and outlays specifically for “low-income and disadvantaged communities,” but apparently nobody bothered to visit any such communities and ask the residents what they need. It’s practically the stuff of a Dave Chappelle skit that people living in neighborhoods struggling with rampant poverty, crime, homelessness, drugs and failing schools would want their government to spend copiously on “solar and wind facilities,” “tree canopy coverage,” “zero-emission technologies,” “climate resilience of affordable housing” and “home energy efficiency retrofits.”</font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 20px 0px 22px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Practically, the only fashionably green cause not in the bill is funding to build electric vehicle charging stations in low-income communities. Of course, these are communities where hardly anyone has an EV — few can afford them, and ownership of such high-value assets can disqualify you from certain public assistance programs </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">— but don’t think the omission is due to a rare moment of sanity. It’s only because last year’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure package is already lavishing billions on such charging stations, including in underserved communities.</span></font></p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 20px 0px 22px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Environmental justice is what happens when rich white liberals are setting the priorities. It doesn’t get any more out of touch than this. And don’t be fooled by all the noise from minority activists, government officials, lawyers and academics who are cashing in on the environmental justice gravy train. There is scant support among people who see more pressing concerns all around them.</font></p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 20px 0px 22px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Of course, the worst injustices come not from climate change but from climate change policies. This includes Green New Deal-style measures that jack up the cost of fossil fuels. Low-income households and minority-owned small businesses struggle the most when <b>gasoline prices </b>are as high as they were earlier this year.</font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 20px 0px 22px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The same is true of heating costs, and we are heading into what may be the costliest winter ever, given sky-high natural gas and electricity prices. But rather than reconsidering the administration’s regulatory war on affordable fossil fuels, th</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">e Inflation Reduction Act adds to the red tape while squandering billions on wishful thinking that wind and solar can power the neighborhood.</span></font></p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 20px 0px 22px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The effect on jobs is as harmful as the impact on energy prices</b>. Consider businesses thinking about locating in disadvantaged communities and providing much-needed jobs while supporting many minority-owned small businesses that partner with such companies. Now, they’ll probably steer clear, knowing that they’ll face an army of well-financed environmental justice warriors who see the private sector not as potential job creators but as potential polluters to be targeted. Indeed, other than the make-work jobs created by the billions in government grants to be doled out, the Inflation Reduction Act will likely be a jobs killer in struggling communities.</font></p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 20px 0px 22px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Or consider low-income families. Their biggest challenge is not that their homes lack solar panels and other politically correct gadgets but that far too many rent rather than own.</font></p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 20px 0px 22px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Inflation Reduction Act does nothing to facilitate home ownership and the accumulation of intergenerational wealth and may put it further out of reach.</font></p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 20px 0px 22px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Overall, there is nothing in the Inflation Reduction Act to dispel the longstanding concerns that the left wants a permanent underclass dependent on the government. The only thing new is that the exploitation has a green tinge.</font></p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 20px 0px 22px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For those genuinely concerned about lifting up people and communities, we can debate the best policies and the proper role of government. But there is no real debate that the environmental justice provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act are, at best, a colossal waste of money. Compare the $60 billion for environmental justice with the inflation-adjusted $29 million damage done in the 1922 Tulsa race riots that devastated the black business community known as Black Wall Street. Realizing that this allocation equals more than 2,000 Black Wall Streets gives you a sense of how many wrongs can be righted if these resources were more sensibly allocated.</font></p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 20px 0px 22px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And, at worst, this “investment” in environmental justice won’t just waste money but will actually do more harm than good.</font></p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 20px 0px 22px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 20px 0px 22px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px;"><a href="https://nationalcenter.org/project21/staff/donna-jackson/" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600;">Donna Jackson</a></span><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px;"> is the director of membership development for the <a href="https://nationalcenter.org/project-21/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600;">Project 21</a> black leadership network. </span><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px;">This was originally syndicated through <a href="https://www.reviewjournal.com/opinion/commentary-the-minority-exploitation-game-called-environmental-justice-2654261/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600;">InsideSources</a>.</span></font></p><div class="blog_single blog_holder" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px;"><article id="post-5895" class="post-5895 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-environment-and-enterprise-institute category-global-warming category-project-21 category-project-21-new-visions tag-new-visions-commentary" style="display: inline-block; width: 955px; margin: 0px;"><div class="post_content_holder" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; width: 955px;"><div class="post_text" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px;"><div class="post_text_inner" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 23px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><hr /><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px;">Project 21 commentaries reflect the views of their authors and not necessarily those of other Project 21 members or the National Center for Public Policy Research, its board or staff.</span></font></p></div></div></div></article></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 10px 15px; background: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Permalink: <a href="https://www.epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2023/6/impacts-of-plastic-production-and-disposal-on-environmental-justice-communities" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">https://www.epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2023/6/impacts-of-plastic-production-and-disposal-on-environmental-justice-communities</a></font></p><p class="permalink" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 10px 15px; background: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p class="permalink" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 10px 15px; background: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hearing on “Impacts of Plastic Production and Disposal on Environmental Justice Communities”

June 15, 2023

Remarks of Donna Jackson, Director of Membership Development, Project 21

Chair Merkley, Ranking Member Mullin, and members of the Subcommittee, thank you for

allowing me to testify today. My name is Donna Jackson and<b> I am the Director of Membership

Development for Project 21 – the black leadership network of the National Center for Public Policy

Research. </b></font></p><p class="permalink" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 10px 15px; background: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Project 21 is one of the oldest and largest black conservative think tanks in the country</b>. Our

hundreds of members come from all walks of life, from small business owners to law enforcement to

assembly line workers to teachers to energy producers to clergy to health care workers. Most of us are

not career activists, lawyers, or lobbyists, and more than a few actually live in the communities we hope

to improve. We cover a wide range of issues, but our fundamental focus is lifting people out of poverty

and dependence and into prosperity and self-sufficiency.

I’ll make my main point up front and tell you that I think it is an overwhelmingly positive thing

for struggling communities to have industrial facilities nearby, including plastics manufacturing. The

high wage blue collar jobs that these employers provide are in many cases the best ones available for

those without college degrees. And if you look at the history of the creation of a black middle class over

the last century, it is these gateway jobs that lifted up millions of families and broke the cycle of poverty...</font></p><p class="permalink" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 10px 15px; background: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I know that in my own family history I can point to relatives who worke<b>d</b> at Ford, General Motors,

Chrysler, U.S. Steel, and General Dynamics. Not only were they able to provide for their families, but

they were also able to become homeowners and save for retirement. Perhaps most importantly, they were

able to provide the educational opportunities that allowed the next generation to attend college and pursue

various professions. And as a result, their kids and now grandkids never had to suffer even one day of

poverty or helplessness. To be blunt about it, it is downright crazy to suggest that my family would have

been better off if these factories were never allowed to be located near them.

And it is not just the direct jobs. Every big manufacturing facility supports many small

businesses in the community, and quite a few of these vendors are minority-owned. </font></p><p class="permalink" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 10px 15px; background: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">They also contribute

to the tax base that pays for things like schools and police protection. But none of that can happen

without the local industrial base, whether it’s a plastics plant or a refinery or an automaker.

Now, we will hear a lot about the environmental dangers of living near or working in these

facilities, including plastics plants. I think a sense of perspective is in order. American manufacturers

are subjected to the most rigorous environmental standards in the world, including plastics plants, and

industrial emissions have declined substantially over the last several decades.<b> For every study claiming a

cancer cluster or a statistical association with some other disease, there are others that find that lowincome people living near these facilities are no worse off than comparably poor people in general</b>. And

I think it is worth noting that the environmental activists who focus on weak correlations between

industrial emissions and health impacts tend to ignore the undeniable and well documented improvements

that come with the transition from poverty to well-paying employment. Beyond reduced illness and...</font></p><p class="permalink" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 10px 15px; background: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></p></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">---</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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