He will advocate for policies that address environmental injustices, including pollution in marginalized communities, and promote clean air, water, and land for all.
Advocate for policies that address environmental injustices, including pollution in marginalized communities, and promote clean air, water, and land for all.
Occurrences
Evidence
Congress.gov lists H.R.576 as a 119th Congress environmental justice bill to codify Executive Order 14096 and shows Rep. Danny K. Davis as a cosponsor dated February 21, 2025. The bill status shown is Introduced.
Congress.gov lists H.R.3376 as the Water Affordability, Transparency, Equity, and Reliability Act of 2025, policy area Environmental Protection, and shows Rep. Danny K. Davis as an original cosponsor on May 13, 2025.
The House Clerk records Roll Call 420 on H.R.5376 as passed, 220 yeas to 207 nays, and lists Rep. Danny K. Davis of Illinois voting Yea.
The enacted H.R.5376 text appropriates $2.8 billion for Environmental and Climate Justice Block Grants and $200 million for technical assistance. Eligible uses include community-led air and other pollution monitoring, prevention, remediation, and reducing indoor toxics and indoor air pollution for disadvantaged communities.
The House Clerk records Roll Call 369 on H.R.3684 as passed, 228 yeas to 206 nays, and lists Rep. Danny K. Davis of Illinois voting Yea.
Congress.gov summarizes Public Law 117-58 as funding water infrastructure, clean school buses and ferries, and legacy pollution cleanup through Brownfield and Superfund sites and abandoned mine reclamation. It also describes drinking water programs assisting small and disadvantaged communities and reducing lead contamination.
Assessments
Davis materially supported enacted federal laws that delivered on the promise's substance: he voted for the Inflation Reduction Act, which funded environmental and climate justice grants, pollution monitoring, remediation, and indoor air pollution reduction for disadvantaged communities, and for the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which funded clean water infrastructure, lead reduction, clean buses, brownfields, Superfund, and other legacy pollution cleanup. His 2025 cosponsorship of environmental justice and water equity bills adds ongoing advocacy, but the enacted 2021-2022 measures are enough for full delivery within his House service rather than only failed effort.