As climate shocks will continue to occur with greater frequency and intensity, Texas must continue to invest in community preparedness to save lives and reduce recovery costs and to help support more sustainable, resilient communities.
I will prioritize:
- Ensuring a reliable, safe, and sustainable water supply and investing the voter-approved $20 billion in environmentally sustainable water infrastructure solutions
- Investing in solar, wind energy, and battery storage and fighting Republican attempts to curtail clean energy
- Taking meaningful action related to data centers
- Equipping communities to prepare for extreme weather events with warning systems for floods and fires and financial support to create community resilience hubs
- Investing in multimodal transportation solutions
- Improving reliability of Texas power grid
- Fending off legislative attacks on Austin’s municipally-owned utility
- Preserving and expanding open and green space
