Feelings of ‘despair’: Climate change activists testify against EPA plans to roll back methane emissions standards

Myrelis “Mara” Diaz never expected to move to the U.S. mainland. That wasn’t in her plans. But on Sept. 20, 2017, Hurricane Maria raged through Puerto Rico and tore up her San Juan apartment complex, leaving residents without running water. An AmeriCorps worker, Diaz spent the following days lugging heavy jugs of water up the stairs for her neighbors. She’d come home without food for herself. One day on a water delivery, when she tripped on the stairs and bruised a chunk of her leg, she decided she’d had enough.

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