energy & the environment

Greg’s record on energy and the environment is practical, urgent, and rooted in Arizona’s needs.

Arizona’s future depends on whether we have the guts to confront the water, heat, energy, and climate challenges facing our future. Families need clean drinking water. Workers need protection from deadly heat. Communities need reliable power they can afford. Our economy needs modern infrastructure that can handle growth without draining the resources our kids and grandkids will depend on.

Water has been one of Greg Stanton’s defining priorities in Congress because Arizona’s future depends on whether leaders are willing to make the investments before systems fail.

He has worked to bring major federal resources home for water infrastructure, drought response, clean drinking water, conservation, and long-term planning for the Colorado River Basin. And he’ll keep fighting to deliver federal investments in Arizona that meet the size of the challenge instead of leaving local communities to carry it alone.

Extreme heat is another area where Greg has pressed Washington to catch up to what Arizona already lives with. Heat affects workers, seniors, kids, emergency responders, small businesses, schools, and the electrical grid. Greg co-founded the bipartisan Congressional Extreme Heat Caucus to make sure federal agencies treat heat as a serious public-safety and infrastructure threat.

Greg also supports a cleaner, more reliable, more affordable energy future. Arizona should be leading in solar, advanced manufacturing, and the next generation of clean energy jobs. But new energy demand has to be handled fairly. Large users, especially large data centers, should be heavily regulated and should pay their share of the costs they create. Greg will fight tooth-and-nail to ensure Arizona’s working families are not be left holding the bag through higher utility bills.

Greg’s record on energy and the environment is practical, urgent, and rooted in Arizona’s needs: protect the water supply, strengthen local infrastructure, prepare for extreme heat, keep power affordable, and build a future where Arizona can keep growing without pretending its resources are unlimited.

Endorsements

• League of Conservation Voters

• Sierra Club

greg’s record

• Secured $250 million for Arizona water infrastructure, including a a $150 million Arizona water infrastructure fund, to upgrade the systems communities rely on for clean drinking water, conservation and drought resilience.

• Helped pass for the Inflation Reduction Act, the largest climate and clean energy investment in American history, to cut emissions, lower energy costs, expand clean energy manufacturing and speed the transition to a cleaner economy.

• Helped deliver $4 billion in drought relief through the Inflation Reduction Act to protect Colorado River Basin communities and stretch limited water supplies across the West.

• Voted for the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, delivering historic investments in EV charging infrastructure, grid modernization, clean energy deployment and more resilient infrastructure.

• Introduced the Energy Bills Relief Act to lower utility bills, strengthen grid reliability, and protect ratepayers from big data centers, including provisions to expand renewable energy, restore clean energy tax credits, help families avoid shutoffs, crack down on price gouging and require large facilities like data centers to cover their own energy costs.

• Introduced bipartisan legislation to invest $5.1 billion in tribal water rights settlements, helping deliver long-overdue water security for tribal communities and Arizona’s future.

• Co-founded the bipartisan Congressional Extreme Heat Caucus to push Washington to treat extreme heat like the deadly public health, worker safety, infrastructure and energy-grid threat it is.

• Introduced bipartisan legislation to reauthorize and fully fund the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Program, helping state, local and tribal governments cut fossil fuel emissions, conserve energy and lower utility bills.

• Backed responsible permitting reform for clean energy and transmission projects, including modernizing outdated review systems, improving federal staffing and speeding up agency coordination without abandoning environmental review.

• Leading the fight in Congress to protect HOV lane exemptions for electric vehicles, encouraging more drivers to adopt clean vehicles and reducing transportation emissions.