Abdul El-Sayed speaks at a live event in Detroit. He says the city forced Marathon Petroleum to reduce emissions it had wanted to increase, with $10 million of the company's own money, and calls it the first time the city stood up to a polluter. He also says optometrists in vans outside schools got kids exams and glasses within two weeks, and that the program delivered 16,000 pairs.
The receipt
- Who
- Abdul El-Sayed
- Where
- rally - Detroit campaign event for U.S. Senate, one week before the 2026 midterm
- Original footage
- FOX 2 Detroit · watch the full video from this moment
- Length
- 44 seconds, unedited within the cut
- Plays
- 9 on Instagram
Read the transcript
So to take on asthma, we took on some of the biggest corporate polluters in our state. We forced Marathon Petroleum to reduce their emissions when they had wanted to increase them, spent $10 million of their own money to do it. It was the first time the city had stood up to a polluter. When we realized that 30 % of those kids who would test positive for vision deficits would come back testing positive again next year, we built a program that said, you know what? We can get you a pair of glasses. glasses. We put optometrists in vans outside of schools so that as soon as a kid got a positive test they would go and get a full optometric exam and a pair of glasses within two weeks. 16 ,000 pairs of glasses later. That, my friend Mike, is how you take on the literacy challenge.
Machine transcript of the clip's audio; names are checked, small words may differ.