With federal funding cuts to well being care sources, sustainability initiatives and a surge in power demand on the facility grid, native consultants, advocates and leaders are searching for options to stay resilient and proactive by means of making an attempt occasions for the well-being of DMV residents and all Individuals.
The Rev. Dr. Benjamin Chavis, president of the Nationwide Newspaper Publishers Affiliation (NNPA)
“I’m asking all [Black] newspapers to have a column, a piece of each paper about environmental justice, about local weather justice. Generally, I believe we [believe] these topic issues are periodic, however these issues are day by day, hourly, in a second. And we are able to’t afford to be missing in our info or our training.”
Montell Jordan, R&B singer
“[ZERO Prostate Cancer] has an initiative the place they’re making an attempt to assist save 100,000 males’s lives over the subsequent 10 years. With my platform [and partnership with the health awareness company], I’m making an attempt to do this within the subsequent couple of months. We’re taking motion proper now to get males examined, to get them screened for early detection. We’re inspiring the ladies in our lives – the moms, aunts, daughters, sisters – to get the boys of their lives checked. That is the place we’re. That is the place my platform is.”
Sandra Mattavous-Frye, Individuals’s Counsel for the District of Columbia
“Rising utility payments are threatening the financial stability, well being, and well-being of residents throughout town. [The] District ought to take a number of steps to deal with rising issues about power affordability, [including]: creating a framework for a strong evaluation of affordability points and options to measure how coverage, infrastructure, and charge choices impression family budgets; and to measure the impression of power help packages and low cost charges. Each resident deserves entry to power that’s dependable, sustainable, and reasonably priced. There have to be rapid motion.”
