We should all work to leave our environment better than we found it by promoting clean energy, supporting environmental protection, and directly confronting the existential threat of climate change.
Promote clean energy, support environmental protection, and confront climate change.
Occurrences
Evidence
Roll No. 420 shows Rep. Pappas voting in favor of the Senate amendment to H.R. 5376, the reconciliation bill later enacted as the Inflation Reduction Act.
The delegation said it had "championed work to secure federal investments in clean energy and energy efficiency initiatives" and that Pappas was a "key supporter" of the Inflation Reduction Act.
Pappas unveiled the Energy Burden Tax Credit Act, plus bills to expand weatherization and transmission, and said he supports reinstating clean energy tax credits established by the Inflation Reduction Act.
Pappas introduced three bills to address PFAS contamination, including measures to set discharge limits, reauthorize EPA research authority, and help communities clean up contamination.
Assessments
Pappas fulfilled this broad policy promise through concrete federal action, most notably voting for H.R. 5376, the Inflation Reduction Act, which became law and included major clean-energy and climate investments. Subsequent legislation and public actions on clean energy, weatherization, transmission, solar funding, and PFAS protections further support that he continued promoting clean energy and environmental protection, but the delivered outcome is already established by the enacted IRA vote during the same term.