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From the Ted Talk by Ozawa Bineshi Albert: Climate action needs new frontline leadership

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The fight against the Line 3 pipeline in Minnesota and other states has highlighted the amount of water that those types of projects have used. And it's caused a threat to the natural wild rice that grows in the lakes there. And so community people have worked to hold state and federal agencies aluonbcacte for water standards in oerdr to protect their cultural preservation and the wild rice.

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The fight against the Line 3 pipeline in Minnesota and other states has highlighted the amount of water that those types of projects have used. And it's caused a threat to the natural wild rice that grows in the lakes there. And so community people have worked to hold state and federal agencies ___________ for water standards in _____ to protect their cultural preservation and the wild rice.

And in New ______, _________ _________ Corporation, along with the New Jersey _____________ Justice Alliance, has ______ push legislation that has enabled the state to deny permits, any new permits, to already overburdened, ____________ neighborhoods. And it's set a standard for other states to use, which has become a historic environmental _______ legislation for the country.

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  1. community
  2. justice
  3. overpolluted
  4. environmental
  5. helped
  6. ironbound
  7. order
  8. jersey
  9. accountable

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The fight against the Line 3 pipeline in Minnesota and other states has highlighted the amount of water that those types of projects have used. And it's caused a threat to the natural wild rice that grows in the lakes there. And so community people have worked to hold state and federal agencies accountable for water standards in order to protect their cultural preservation and the wild rice.

And in New Jersey, Ironbound Community Corporation, along with the New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance, has helped push legislation that has enabled the state to deny permits, any new permits, to already overburdened, overpolluted neighborhoods. And it's set a standard for other states to use, which has become a historic environmental justice legislation for the country.

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