BANGOR DAILY NEWS • July 26, 2020
Instead of prioritizing relief for struggling families, the Trump administration continues to use the coronavirus pandemic to bail out fossil fuel industry executives and roll back health and environmental safeguards. Aid has gone to those who need it least, while the Black, Latinx and Native communities dying at higher rates from the virus have been forced to wait. To make matters worse, the Trump administration is simultaneously throwing out the environmental safeguards that limit pollution — meaning that these same vulnerable communities are now subject to higher levels of toxins in their air and water. ~ Lena Moffitt, Sierra Club