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The head of Arizona鈥檚 leading business advocacy group says of the environmental challenges facing the state that it鈥檚 not water that causes him the greatest concern, but overly aggressive federal air quality regulations. 

Appearing on Sunday鈥檚 Politics Unplugged, Arizona 小红帽直播app of Commerce & Industry President and CEO Danny Seiden said Arizona manages its water resources well and that the state is still positioned for continued economic growth. 

Seiden said the rhetoric around the state鈥檚 water security requires some 鈥渕yth busting鈥� and that Arizona must 鈥渄efeat the false narrative that we don鈥檛 have water and that we don鈥檛 have the options for these companies that are coming here.鈥� 

Those options, Seiden says, are part of a broader water augmentation strategy begun in the previous administration. 

鈥淭here鈥檚 an augmentation strategy, whether it鈥檚 desalination or working with tribal relationships, so we continue to find those (water) supplies.鈥� 

Seiden says his organization reminds policymakers that corporate and industrial water users are responsible stewards and are often leaders in finding new water solutions. 

鈥淎nd I think that we don鈥檛 do enough to explain that industrial 鈥� manufacturer use 鈥� is about 7% total. And there are great companies, great corporate citizens 鈥� our manufacturers like Intel, like TSMC, they have wastewater plans, they have reclamation plans,鈥� Seiden said. 鈥淚n fact, over 95% of our wastewater in central Arizona is reclaimed and reused. We鈥檙e very good at this.鈥� 

Gov. Katie Hobbs told National Public Radio last month that the previous administration took too rosy a view of the state鈥檚 water situation and that, 鈥淚f we don’t take action now, we won’t have enough water.鈥� 

Seiden is less pessimistic and says his group looks forward to partnering with the Hobbs administration. 

鈥淚 think acknowledging the problem but acknowledging that we have solutions out there 鈥� that we do have options, that鈥檚 what we鈥檙e hoping to get the page turned to,鈥� he said. 鈥淟et鈥檚 talk about our options and how we can work together. And I think she鈥檒l be a great partner in that.鈥� 

On air quality, however, Seiden is concerned. He says the federal government has been overly stringent with states that have so-called 鈥渘onattainment鈥� areas that are not within the Environmental Protection Agency鈥檚 acceptable air quality levels. 

鈥淚f EPA continues to increase burdensome regulations and not provide solutions, all development, all growth could be halted, not just in Arizona,鈥� Seiden said. He says the Arizona 小红帽直播app is working within a coalition of state-level business groups facing similar federally imposed constraints on growth to take their case to the highest levels of Congress, arguing that the EPA has not been sufficiently receptive to states working together to come up with solutions. 

鈥淲hy not give us the options to fix these things?鈥� he said. 

Seiden says the EPA should be more accommodating to states that are thinking creatively to come up with offsets, strategies that result in air quality improvements in one area to compensate for emissions increase in another.