Since his return to Congress, Tom has continued to lead on protecting the Long Island Sound, ensuring we have clean drinking water, and working to address climate change.
Suozzi will continue to push for clean water, Long Island Sound protection, and climate action.
Occurrences
Protect the Long Island Sound, Provide Clean Drinking Water, and Address Climate Change
Suozzi introduced the bipartisan SEPTIC Act to improve water quality and help homeowners, extending his environmental and water-infrastructure agenda.
stands with conservationists in calling for the reinstatement of 2009 ‘Endangerment Finding’
Evidence
Congressman Tom Suozzi called on EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin to reverse his decision to delay compliance deadlines on final PFAS regulations. The same week, Suozzi also secured $10 million in funding for PFAS filtration equipment for the Albertson and Jericho Water Districts. Since he helped negotiate, voted for, and passed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law in 2021, Suozzi helped secure a total of $58 million in PFAS filtration funding on behalf of his constituents in New York’s third district.
Congressman Tom Suozzi held a press conference to call out the Administration’s revocation of the Endangerment Finding and stood with conservationists in calling for its reinstatement. The release says the finding underpins federal action to curb planet-warming gases and that Suozzi described climate change as a serious threat to Long Island and New York.
As Co-chair of the Long Island Sound Caucus, Suozzi announced nearly $3 million in matching federal grants for projects to preserve and protect the Long Island Sound. The release says he helped increase federal funding to protect the Sound by nearly 900% and that he had worked to restore shellfishing beds, reseed harbors, cut nitrogen runoff, and clean up pollution.
The House clerk’s roll call for H.R. 3684 shows Representative Suozzi voting Yea on passage of the INVEST in America Act.
Official House release says Suozzi co-led a bipartisan request for robust Long Island Sound restoration funding and that the House Appropriations Committee later voted to approve the funding.
Official House release says Suozzi held a press conference calling for reinstatement of the EPA Endangerment Finding and arguing climate change is a serious threat to Long Island and New York.
Assessments
Suozzi continued active advocacy in his current federal term on all three parts of the promise: clean water/PFAS cleanup, Long Island Sound protection, and climate action. The House releases show recent press conferences, letters, bipartisan funding pushes, and committee-level progress tied to those goals, which is enough to treat the promise to keep pushing as fulfilled in the same term.
The promise was framed as continued advocacy rather than a specific enacted policy outcome. Same-term evidence shows Suozzi pushed clean-water policy by opposing EPA PFAS compliance delays and securing PFAS filtration funding, and pushed climate action by publicly opposing revocation of the Endangerment Finding. Earlier evidence also supports a pattern of Long Island Sound protection work, but the same-term clean-water and climate actions are sufficient to show the promised continued push was fulfilled.