CNN: Minority Communities Are Being Disproportionately Impacted by Climate Change

‘Fuels that build the modern world are the ones now destroying it’

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KELLEY: "We are constantly fighting those kinds of battles. I’m forever the guardian of this gate. And as you can see from my place right here, there goes the dragon right there." 
WEIR: "That’s the dragon." 
KELLEY: "You’re constantly watching it." 
WEIR: "What Hilton calls the dragon is actually the biggest oil refinery in America. And it is owned by a Saudi Arabian company that made $111 billion profit last year, almost twice as much as Apple. Meanwhile, their neighbor, who lives here, was driven out by the flood waters of hurricane Harvey and almost two years later can’t afford the repairs to move back in. This is why communities of color are worried that the gap between polluting haves and storm surviving have nots is only going to get wider."
WEIR (voice-over): "After Harvey flooded Motiva and other refineries, the Trump Administration fast-tracked almost $4 billion to build storm barriers specifically to protect oil and gas facilities. But the predominantly black Houston neighborhoods flooded by Harvey can’t even get the government funding to upgrade their storm drains." 

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