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The Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice CREEJ believes that climate change is a crisis of catastrophic proportions. Therefore it is more urgent to advance grassrootsled solutions in policy and technology innovation across the United States. Growing up in rural America where communities are often underresourced and overpolluted I have always had a strong lens toward inclusive and equitable environmental justice initiatives. Whether it is a small town or an unincorporated area we must eliminate the health economic and environmental disparities suffocating rural and marginalized communities.