[3] Davis said it was a “sad day” when “taxpayers are asked to pay money to buy contraceptives” for women having sex without planning responsibly.

[8] Davis voted for HB 56, the “junk drawer of environmental bills,” where lawmakers added $435,000 for GenX research while also repealing the Outer Banks plastic bag ban and reducing county authority over landfills.

[11] Under Republican control, both DEQ and DHHS have faced massive budget cuts leaving the departments without adequate funding to study emerging contaminants like GenX.

[12] The cuts have forced DEQ to eliminate managers and replace experienced staff with cheaper labor while the Water Supply Protection Division lost a third of their employees.

[13] Davis voted for House Bill 576, which would allow landfill operators to use aerosolization to dispose of leachate by “spraying it into the air over their property” without a permit.