In Congress, he will continue to champion climate action and conservation.
Champion climate action and conservation.
Occurrences
I’m going to fight for continued investments and forceful actions that will fuel further conservation and get us closer to a durable seven-state solution.
Evidence
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Stanton and 120 House Democrats introduced the Energy Bills Relief Act, described as legislation to expand renewable energy, modernize the electric grid, provide utility assistance, and support a cleaner, more resilient energy system.
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Stanton and Rep. Andy Biggs sent a letter to Interior and OMB urging immediate release of Bureau of Reclamation drought-mitigation funds for the Colorado River Basin, warning the funds set to expire in fiscal year 2026 may never reach water users unless released.
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The Water and Climate page, updated and crawled in the last week, lists the April 20, 2026 drought-funds letter and states Stanton is working through water management, infrastructure investments, drought combat, wildfire recovery, extreme heat legislation, and hydropower investment to fight climate change.
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Rep. Biggs's official press release, mirrored by PublicNow, says Biggs co-led an April 2026 letter with Rep. Greg Stanton to Interior and OMB and that the effort successfully urged Reclamation to release federal drought funds; it reports Reclamation announced $450 million, including $350 million for Lower Basin states.
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The Bureau of Reclamation announced DOI issued the 2027-2028 Operating Guidelines and Record of Decision for post-2026 Colorado River operations. The guidelines provide for 1.25 million acre-feet annual Lower Basin reductions in 2027 and 2028 and at least 700,000 acre-feet of voluntary system conservation through 2028.
Assessments
Stanton has continued to materially advance climate and conservation priorities through official House actions, including backing renewable-energy and grid legislation, pressing Interior and OMB to release Colorado River drought funds, and helping spur a later release of drought-mitigation funding. A federal Colorado River conservation framework was also finalized during his later House service. These actions support meaningful partial delivery of the broad promise to champion climate action and conservation, but the evidence does not show full enactment or completion of a comprehensive climate and conservation agenda from the 2018 campaign term.
Stanton has continued to champion climate and conservation issues in federal office through climate-adjacent water, drought, heat, renewable energy, grid, and infrastructure advocacy, including introducing or backing the Energy Bills Relief Act and pressing Interior and OMB to release Colorado River drought-mitigation funds. However, the provided evidence shows advocacy, introduced legislation, and executive-branch pressure rather than a completed enacted climate or conservation outcome attributable to him. Because these actions occurred after his initial 2019-2023 AZ-9 term, timing is later_term.