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Posted: 2019-10-09T12:00:14Z | Updated: 2019-10-09T12:00:14Z

Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren released a sweeping climate justice plan on Wednesday morning, vowing to ramp up research on the health effects of pollution and discourage the transfer of public water services to for-profit companies.

The 12-page memo marks the Massachusetts senators eighth climate-related proposal since launching a presidential campaign built on an ambitious slate of policy plans at the start of the year.

The latest proposal collects much of Warrens existing ideas on improving racial equity and reducing pollution and reframes them in what looks like an ambitious, nearly 5,900-word blueprint on how to implement a Green New Deal .

Justice cannot be a secondary concern it must be at the center of our response to climate change, Warren wrote in the memo. The Green New Deal commits us to a just transition for all communities and all workers. But we wont create true justice by cleaning up polluted neighborhoods and tweaking a few regulations at the EPA.

The document borrows heavily from the plan laid out by former climate candidate Jay Inslee, who quit the Democratic presidential primary in August to run for reelection as Washingtons governor, including efforts to quantify pollution inequity between communities and apply that data to decisions on where to invest Green New Deal money. Warren also proposes turning the White House Council on Environmental Quality , a currently sleepy office tasked with coordinating public health policy across federal agencies, into an environmental justice hub.

The Warren plan offers fewer wonky details on which agencies should do what work than the Inslee proposal did. But notably included in the senators release are calls to increase research funding at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and to overhaul drinking water infrastructure, putting an end to the privatization of water delivery.

Under her administration, Warren would fully fund the CDCs environmental health programs, such as childhood lead poisoning prevention, and community health investigations and would provide additional grant funding for independent research into environmental health effects. Her campaign declined to share an exact dollar figure.