Protecting Our Land and Water
OUR LAND, NOT THEIRS
Clean water and public land are not negotiable.
North Carolina has some of the most beautiful country in America, and it is being treated like a dumping ground. Corporations pour chemicals into our rivers, walk away, and leave working families to drink the water and pay the medical bills. PFAS contamination in the Haw River is not an accident. It is what happens when the people doing the polluting have more pull in Washington than the people living downstream. I am not going to let them sell off our public lands and I am not going to let them poison our water.
Crack down on corporate pollution and contamination of our natural areas.
Create good paying union jobs in the green energy sector.
Build resilience infrastructure to protect communities from the climate crisis.
Clean Water
Hold polluters accountable for PFAS and every other chemical they have put in our rivers and wells.
Public Lands
Oppose the privatization of national lands. They belong to the American people, not to the highest bidder.
Union Energy Jobs
Build the green energy economy here, with union labor and wages a family can actually live on.
Storm Resilience
Invest in flood control, drainage, and grid infrastructure so the next storm does not wipe out another town.
COMMON QUESTIONS
You should not have to wonder if your tap water is safe.
Every family in this district deserves clean water, land they can pass down, and a home that is still standing after the storm. Here are straight answers to the questions people are asking.
What will you do about PFAS in our water?
Make the polluters pay for the cleanup instead of the ratepayers. That means enforceable limits with real penalties, federal money for utilities to install treatment, and free testing for families on private wells who have no idea what they are drinking.
Do you support selling off public land?
No. Every few years somebody in Washington floats the idea of selling public land to close a budget gap. Once it is gone it is gone forever. Those lands belong to all of us, and I will vote against every attempt to hand them over.
Will environmental rules cost us jobs?
That is the argument they always make and it has never been true. Cleanup work, water treatment, grid upgrades, and energy construction are jobs. My concern is making sure they are union jobs with real wages, not the low pay work that leaves families no better off than before.
What does resilience infrastructure actually mean?
It means the practical things. Better drainage and flood control in the places that go under every time a hurricane comes through. Stronger power infrastructure so people are not without electricity for a week. Restored wetlands and stream buffers that absorb water before it reaches somebody’s living room.
Why should people trust you on this?
I come from coal country. I have watched companies take what they wanted out of the ground, leave the mess behind, and move on while the people who lived there got sick and got nothing. I know exactly how that story ends. I am not going to stand by and watch it play out again in North Carolina.