Tammy Duckworth

For years, Metro East leaders have touted this proposed MetroLink expansion as a vital link to help travelers by connecting MidAmerica with St. Louis Lambert International Airport.

Officials announced Cahokia Heights would receive $37 million in funding because of failing infrastructure. Over two years later, that money is still to be seen.

The Illinois Democrat toured homes in the area to see the damage from chronic flooding during heavy rains, which often contains raw sewage.

U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth says the infrastructure deal will cover the cost of repairing decades-old problems."

Democratic Representative Cori Bush made history when she became the first Black Congresswoman for Missouri, unseating the Clay political dynasty. She brought her background as a nurse, activist, organizer, single mom and pastor to her new role and has jumped headfirst into advocating for issues ranging from reparations for Black Americans to taxing billionaires to Medicare for All. She teamed up with Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey and Illinois Senator Tammy Duckworth to introduce a bill that would bring together federal agencies and create a mapping tool to help allocate environmental funding from the Biden administration. Just last week, she also joined forces with New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to introduce a $1 trillion dollar bill to fund environmental justice projects for the next four years. In this episode, we’ll hear from Senator Tammy Duckworth and Congresswoman Cori Bush about three major environmental justice bills: the Environmental Justice for All Act, the Environmental Justice Mapping and Data Collection Act, and the Green New Deal for Cities Act.—This episode was a collaboration with Jason Rosenbaum, St. Louis Public Radio political correspondent and co-host of the Politically Speaking podcast. You can listen to the Politically Speaking episodes with Senator Duckworth and Congresswoman Bush at stlpr.org or anywhere you get podcasts.

Duckworth spoke with St. Louis Public Radio's Eric Schmid and We Live Here's Jia Ling Yang and Lauren Brown about her legislation.

The Environmental Justice For All Act would amend current law and add new programs such as creating parks in communities across the country.

The Illinois senator wants to know how much arsenic, cadmium, lead and other metals the plant puts into the air.

U.S. Rep. Cori Bush is teaming up with Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey to map out environmental issues. Both Democrats say this will allow President Joe Biden's pledge to direct federal money to historically underserved communities.

Editor's Note: This story was originally published in the Belleville News-Democrat.For the month and a half when Donald Williams was sick with…