His campaign says de-regulating homebuilding will fix housing costs. Iowa already ran that experiment — a law capping what cities can require for stormwater runoff, in a state with worsening floods. Meanwhile the real housing bill became law without Trump's signature, and his housing plank doesn't mention it.
Gallagher's district contains the town destroyed by the deadliest wildfire in California history. In eleven years in the Legislature he compiled an 11% lifetime environmental score — 0% in 2022, when every one of his recorded votes was against.
Sixteen of the Pillen family's monitored hog operations recorded nitrate above 50 parts per million. The federal drinking-water limit is 10. Nebraska's governor said he hadn't read the story and wouldn't — then attacked the reporter's nationality.
Gallagher's amendment to the defense bill would have opened a study into how federal authority can 'preempt or otherwise mitigate' state fuel policies. Seven Republicans joined 209 Democrats to kill it, 212-216.
Within a day of each other, three House Republicans and a group of senators introduced seven resolutions to strip the clean-air rules that 17 states and D.C. rely on. Two Koch-funded groups were quoted cheering in the press release.
Hull opposes a pause on new data centers and says they should be sited where 'produced water is available.' New Mexico's own scientists say that water is a toxic soup that can't be treated safely — and the state banned discharging it last year.
Tiffany told a tavern crowd he's open to splitting Wisconsin's Department of Natural Resources so hunting and fishing are separated from environmental permitting. The state's largest sportsmen's group says the real problem is license fees frozen since 2005 — and a former DNR secretary warned in 2016 that a split gives Republicans 'one agency they can feed and one they can starve.'
Abbott appoints all 21 board members of the Nueces River Authority and, with a board majority vote, can remove them. It may run out of money for its desalination plant by the end of August. He has no such power over the city council he's threatening to take over — and he's fighting to keep his emails with the river authority secret.
Abbott branded Texas the 'epicenter of AI development' and handed data centers one of the biggest tax breaks in the country. Now, in an election year, he says he's the one protecting us from them.
