This post is part of a series examining where 2024 candidates running for public offices in the Southeast stand on key energy and climate issues. Note: The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy does not support or oppose candidates or political parties. Links to reports, candidate websites, and outside sources are provided as citizen education tools.
In this blog post, we examine the policies and positions of Don Davis, Democratic Party candidate running for reelection to represent North Carolina Congressional District 1 in the U.S. House of Representatives. Also in this series, we profile Republican candidate Laurie Buckhout. Election Day is November 5, 2024.
Born and raised in Snow Hill, North Carolina, Davis served eight years in the US Air Force. He also worked as an assistant professor of Aerospace Studies at East Carolina University instructing national security affairs and leadership courses, and later became mayor of Snow Hill at age 29. Beginning in 2008, he served six terms as a North Carolina State Senator.
In 2022, Davis was elected to the U.S. Congress representing his home community, eastern North Carolina. He lives in Greene County, NC, with his wife and three sons.
Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency
Don Davis has helped secure two federal grants for Carolina Poultry Power, a company that converts poultry litter waste into energy.
Climate Change
Don Davis has voted in favor of expanding research into carbon sequestration, and against repealing the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and Methane Emissions Reduction Program provisions from the Inflation Reduction Act.
Davis has also voted to criticize the idea of a carbon tax.
Electric Transportation
As a Congressman, Don Davis has acted against the growth of electric vehicles. He voted to limit the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate emissions from motor vehicles. He also voted to denounce a federal rule facilitating the growth of electric vehicle charging infrastructure.
Energy Equity and Energy Burden
Don Davis’ campaign website includes a promise to fight for a better environment in his district, stating that “Air and water pollution and the impacts of the climate crisis often disproportionately impact our poorest families, working-class communities, and communities of color, who are more likely to live in areas where air and water pollution exceed national standards.”
High-Risk Energy: Coal, Nuclear, Oil, Gas
Don Davis has taken actions that both support and constrain high-risk energy sources.
As a Congressman, he voted to preserve federal regulations on the exporting of Liquid Natural Gas. He also voted against a sweeping bill that would have supported fossil fuel industries while getting rid of fossil fuel regulations and clean energy programs.
He voted in favor of the Restoring American Energy Dominance Act, which repeals constraints on oil and gas extraction on federal lands. He also voted in favor of requirements to accelerate the deployment of advanced nuclear reactors.
Voter Information
Election Day is November 5. Here are important dates and deadlines to consider, from the North Carolina State Board of Elections:
- Sept. 6, 2024: County boards of elections begin mailing absentee ballots to eligible voters who submitted an absentee ballot request form.
- Oct. 11, 2024: Voter registration deadline (5 p.m.).*
- Oct. 17, 2024: In-person early voting begins; same-day registration available.
- Oct. 29, 2024: Absentee ballot request deadline (5 p.m.).*
- Nov. 2, 2024: In-person early voting ends (3 p.m.).
- Nov. 5, 2024: General Election Day.
- Nov. 5, 2024: Absentee ballot return deadline (7:30 p.m.).*
*Voter registration and absentee voting deadlines are different for military and overseas citizen voters.
Find additional important election information here.
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The answer to the question at hand: I’m not sure.
Yet it certainly appears that this country has completely lost its appetite for the criminal insanity of today’s Republican party. We’re tired of the lies, the hate, the indifference to human suffering, the lawlessness, and most of all the utter humiliation our formerly great country receives on the world stage on a near-daily basis.
Compensating cop-beaters for the prison time that hundreds of judges handed down may appeal to a few of the most stupid and depraved Americans, but good luck trying to sell that to sane, decent people.
We have no interest in being slapped in face every minute for another four years.
If you look this up, you’ll see that it’s correct. Eisenhower was a fierce advocate of the following:
- Infrastructure, e.g., the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, creating the 41,000-mile Interstate Highway System to improve national defense and commerce
- Social Programs, Social Security, minimum wage, the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
- Fiscal Policy, lower taxes, a balanced budget, and reduced government regulation, aiming to limit federal intervention in local affairs
- Foreign Policy, nuclear deterrence and relying on the CIA for covert operations
- Civil Rights, desegregation of the military and the armed forces, support for the Brown v. Board of Education decision
Where the Republican Party Has Gone Since Eisenhower in the 1950s
My only problem with this is the U.S. Constitution, which clearly lays out the laws by which our elections will be conducted. I.e., it’s up to each of the 50 states to make and implement their own procedures.
Obviously, conspiracy theorists, at the direction of Newsmax and their peers, are convinced that there is a significant amount of voter fraud, but the fact is that there have been only a few dozen incidents of proven fraud out of the last one billion votes cast.
Yes, we could have an amendment could be proposed and passed into law that changes all of this, but until then, I’m going to support the U.S. Constitution, which has done right by the American people since its passage in 1789.
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