John Scott Duarte: “I believe that you are robbing these local people of the same advantages that we enjoy.”

Under the Clean Water Act, the EPA or States with delegated authority regulate point sources of pollution into the waters of the United States. Point source pollution is pollution from any discernible, confined, and discrete conveyance…

I am very suspect of the social equity claims made by the electric vehicle industry.

I am dropping the EV Fair Trade Act, which simply says, if you want to get a Federal check to subsidize your electric vehicle purchase, that's fine... it's going to be certified by the manufacturer not to involve constituents or components…

we also have a very blue State government. And that doesn't bode well for red rural counties, in terms of getting our share.