We are disproportionately impacted and we are left without resources.

That's Fawn Sharp, president of the National Congress of American Indians.

My tribe, the Cronald Nation is currently under a state of national emergency due to sea level rise.

And we're having to relocate two main villages to higher ground at a high tide.

The ocean will encroach into our village and it'll go to our our jail facility,

our community center, the only store in town.

Sharp's tribe is being forced to relocate due to the effects of climate change.

Regardless of where we are placed, we're going to continue to survive and we're going to continue to be resilient.

But it certainly has taken a toll on on all of us.

Last year an EPA study found that indigenous people are 48 percent more likely than non-indigenous people

to lose land due to future sea level rise.

And African Americans are 40 percent more likely than non-African Americans

to live in areas where extreme temperatures could lead to an increase in deaths.

I talked to moms and jacks in Mississippi whose children have been exposed to lead and drinking water.

That's EPA administrator Michael Regan.

Last November he traveled across Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas

to meet with communities facing extreme pollution.

I talked with families in St. James and St. John's Parish

who have been exposed to pollution for decades from refineries and other sources of pollution

who are dealing with cancer that spans three generations in one household,

a grandparent, a parent, and a child.

The evidence is consistent and clear.

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