Gubernatorial campaign websites: on Environment


Bob Stefanowski: Make sure that environmental regulations make sense

Our state parks are a great tourism asset and give visitors a reason to visit Connecticut. Long Island Sound creates billions of dollars in Connecticut and we need to do a better job protecting this valuable resource. We can balance environmental sustainability and economic growth by working together with private partners and making sure that environmental regulations exist that make sense and not just a few extra cents.
Source: 2022 Connecticut BobForGovernor.com campaign website Apr 21, 2022

Chris Jones: Protect residential communities from hazardous industry

Whether it's irrigating fields, maintaining flooded timber for duck season, or ensuring we have clean drinking water in our towns and cities, we need to make the best of the historic investments coming in from the bipartisan federal infrastructure bill. No residential community should be made to suffer unintended or hidden impacts of potentially hazardous industry in their backyards. Economic development and developing our communities should always go hand in hand.
Source: 2022 Arkansas Governor campaign website ChrisForGovernor.com May 26, 2022

Christopher Kurka: Shouldn't tolerate Federal oversight of our resources

Alaska is a great state with abundant natural resources and, perhaps more importantly, a fiercely independent people. We do not need, nor should we tolerate, the out-of-control powers that be in D.C. telling us how to live or develop our resources.
Source: 2022 Alaska Gubernatorial campaign website ChrisKurka.com Feb 23, 2022

Doug Gansler: Won largest environmental settlement in American history

Doug also worked to deliver environmental justice, obtaining settlements when ExxonMobil released more than 25,000 gallons of gasoline into Maryland waters and securing $4.6 billion for air quality with American Electric Power, the largest environmental settlement in American history.

Doug's work eliminated at least 813,000 tons of pollution from our state's air every year. Gansler led a 5-state effort to clean up and conduct a rivershed audit of the Chesapeake Bay, improving the water quality.

[Doug will also work to] significantly strengthen the standards for adequate wastewater treatment plants and increase the Maryland Department of the Environment's inspection and compliance capabilities.

Source: 2022 Maryland Gubernatorial campaign website DougGansler.com Dec 29, 2021

Josh Green: Press Navy to drain fuel tanks, shut facility for good

I will fight to protect Hawaii's clean water, and my administration will immediately press the U.S. Navy to drain the fuel tanks at Red Hill as quickly and safely as possible, shut the facility down for good, and make sure that leaks and spills of any toxic substances never again threaten the health and safety of our people or our environment.
Source: 2022 Hawaii Governor campaign website JoshGreenForHawaii.com Aug 17, 2022

Kirk Caldwell: Banned single-use plastic items; reduced landfill waste

Kirk's team has made huge strides to make Honolulu a greener city, including bans on single-use plastic items, reducing landfill waste, making H-Power the Oahu's largest provider of renewable energy, installing energy-saving street lighting, and planting tens of thousands of trees. The City acquired miles of shoreline in Kahuku to protect coastal sand dunes. His administration sued to hold major oil companies accountable for climate change impacts that threaten O'ahu.
Source: 2022 Hawaii Gubernatorial campaign website KirkCaldwell.com Apr 11, 2022

Michelle Benson: Protect environment without over-regulating our economy

10,000 Lakes and More: We are blessed in Minnesota to be home to some of the greatest natural resources in the world. We can protect our environment without destroying our energy supply and over-regulating our economy. Projects that pass Minnesota's environmental review process should move forward and not get bogged down by politics.
Source: 2022 Minnesota Governor campaign website Michelle4MN.com Dec 23, 2021

Peter Franchot: Voted for over $1.4 billion in environmental protection

Peter has voted to invest more than $1.4 billion in environmental protection and land preservation -- including $708 million for Program Open Space, resulting in more than 100,000 acres permanently preserved and protected from development. Peter has taken a leading role in reforming the way we invest in Program Open Space. He led the effort to create a Program Open Space acquisition scoring system that ensures land acquisitions are carefully vetted for ecological and recreational benefits.
Source: 2022 Maryland gubernatorial campaign website franchot.com Feb 18, 2021

Peter Franchot: Work with EPA to help clean up Chesapeake Bay

To reinvigorate the Bay restoration effort, Franchot will work with President Biden's Environmental Protection Agency and the signatory states to the Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint to reach agreement to ramp up our efforts to achieve clean air, clean water, and lasting health for the Chesapeake Bay by the end of his first term.
Source: 2022 Maryland Gubernatorial campaign website TK.com Jul 19, 2021

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Candidates and political leaders on Environment:

Retired Senate as of Jan. 2015:
GA:Chambliss(R)
IA:Harkin(D)
MI:Levin(D)
MT:Baucus(D)
NE:Johanns(R)
OK:Coburn(R)
SD:Johnson(D)
WV:Rockefeller(D)

Resigned from 113th House:
AL-1:Jo Bonner(R)
FL-19:Trey Radel(R)
LA-5:Rod Alexander(R)
MA-5:Ed Markey(D)
MO-9:Jo Ann Emerson(R)
NC-12:Melvin Watt(D)
SC-1:Tim Scott(R)
Retired House to run for Senate or Governor:
AR-4:Tom Cotton(R)
GA-1:Jack Kingston(R)
GA-10:Paul Broun(R)
GA-11:Phil Gingrey(R)
HI-1:Colleen Hanabusa(D)
IA-1:Bruce Braley(D)
LA-6:Bill Cassidy(R)
ME-2:Mike Michaud(D)
MI-14:Gary Peters(D)
MT-0:Steve Daines(R)
OK-5:James Lankford(R)
PA-13:Allyson Schwartz(D)
TX-36:Steve Stockman(R)
WV-2:Shelley Capito(R)
Retired House as of Jan. 2015:
AL-6:Spencer Bachus(R)
AR-2:Tim Griffin(R)
CA-11:George Miller(D)
CA-25:Howard McKeon(R)
CA-33:Henry Waxman(D)
CA-45:John Campbell(R)
IA-3:Tom Latham(R)
MN-6:Michele Bachmann(R)
NC-6:Howard Coble(R)
NC-7:Mike McIntyre(D)
NJ-3:Jon Runyan(R)
NY-4:Carolyn McCarthy(D)
NY-21:Bill Owens(D)
PA-6:Jim Gerlach(R)
UT-4:Jim Matheson(D)
VA-8:Jim Moran(D)
VA-10:Frank Wolf(R)
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