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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If the question at left were posed to me, I would respond: love one another.
Below is the seal of the school I attended as a boy. The motto in ancient Greek, close to the bottom, is pronounced “fuh-LAY-ta uh-LAY-loose,” and translates into English as exactly that–love one another.
This concept sits at the basis of Quakerism, the principle upon which the Willliam Penn Charter School (“PC”) in Philadelphia was founded in 1689. We are all equal. We all share “personhood.”
To most PC graduates, it’s weird when we hear, for instance, that the Christians and the Muslims or that the Sunnis and the Shiites “don’t get along.” Can’t we just knock off this mean and childish behavior? Our common humanity sits right in front of our noses.
The cave drawings at Lascaux that were made 40,000 years ago reveal something very important. We today are no different from the people living at that time in any way that is fundamental or basic. We all love our children, and we all gaze at the sky, contemplating the wonders of the universe.
Harming each other is the repellant to our minds.
What do you notice about the shopping bag in the photo?
It has no handles.
That’s right, Albertson’s, with annual revenues of more than $83 billion, has decided to inconvenience its customers, forcing them to wrap both of their arms around their grocery bags to get them into and out of their shopping carts, into and out of their cars, and finally into their homes.
The savings? From what I can learn from AI, the answer is somewhere around $0.12 each. If you’re interested, you can Google: “cost per 1000000 paper grocery bags.”
I understand that grocery stores operate on low margins, but if it were my decision to make, I wouldn’t be deliberately pissing off my customers, many of them elderly, who are spending $100 for a bag of my groceries in order to save 12 cents.
Yet the Albertson’s example isn’t unique; in fact, it’s everywhere you go. Look at your cell phone bill and your streaming services. Corporate greed is grinding you into the pavement while it relished in your misery.
What do you notice about the shopping bag in the photo?
It has no handles.
That’s right, Albertson’s, with annual revenues of more than $83 billion, has decided to inconvenience its customers, forcing them to wrap both of their arms around their grocery bags to get them into and out of their shopping carts, into and out of their cars, and finally into their homes.
The savings? From what I can learn from AI, the answer is somewhere around $0.12 each. If you’re interested, you can Google: “cost per 1000000 paper grocery bags.”
I understand that grocery stores operate on low margins, but if it were my decision to make, I wouldn’t be deliberately pissing off my customers who are spending $100 for a bag of my groceries in order to save 12 cents.
Yet Albertson’s isn’t unique; in fact, it’s everywhere you go. Look at your cell phone bill and your streaming services. Corporate greed is grinding you into the pavement while it relished in your misery.
https://www.2greenenergy.com/2026/07/22/why-are-huge-corporations-slapping-their-customers-in-the-face/
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