Please explain how a minority of abstainers will positively influence candidates.
I can easily explain how the exact opposite occurs in one sentence.
Conventions receive detailed reports on active registered voters and tailor their next candidate to capture more of that audience.
Congress writes the law, then the EPA supports local and state agencies like the DEP in defining processes to uphold it. If the EPA doesn’t have the authority, then it’s likely the state programs don’t either. It would be up to the governor to empower the DEP or other local environmental enforcement agencies to have more authority than the EPA.