Our Water, Our Bills

Two commitments for anyone asking Alabamians for their vote in 2026. They are separate, and they are specific. A candidate can sign one, both, or neither — and every answer is published here.

The two pledges

Repeal SB71 Alabama cannot currently set any pollution standard stricter than the federal floor. Passed 27–7 on February 3, 2026. Keep data center costs off household bills Alabamians already pay among the highest residential power bills in the country. Somebody pays for new industrial load.

Sign the SB71 pledge   Sign the data center pledge

Why they are separate

Because they are separate questions, and combining them would let a candidate hide. Someone can believe Alabama should set its own environmental standards and disagree about who should pay for infrastructure serving large industrial power users — or the reverse.

Keeping them separate means a signature actually says something. So does a refusal.

No candidate will be listed as declining a pledge unless the campaign explicitly tells us no.

This page is not going anywhere

A pledge that disappears after an election is a press release. This one stays up, and the point of keeping it up is to compare it against the record later.

Roll call votes in Alabama are public. When someone who signed takes office and a covered bill comes to a vote, that vote will be added beside their name — whether it matches what they signed or not.

That cuts in every direction, including mine. I signed both of these. If I am elected and vote against what is written here, that will appear on this page under my own name.

Candidates who signed both

NameOffice soughtDate
Spencer StoneAlabama Senate, District 162026-09-01

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