Alleghany Group Endorsements
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US House
PA 12
Representative Summer Lee, PA District 12, has a history of working with a core group of environmental legislators from both the House and the Senate. She has introduced and supported several environmental bills, and plans to work with industry to implement sustainable operations. Summer has been endorsed by Sunrise Movement and the House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
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US House
PA 17
Chris DeLuzio, candidate for U.S. House of Representatives, District 17, has cosponsored the Plastic Pellet Free Waters Act, which directs the Environmental Protection Agency to keep plastic discharge and other pre-production plastics out of waters across the United States. He also sponsored legislation to regulate the railroads, as part of District 17 was impacted by the East Palestine derailment. Chris sends emails out to his constituency on a regular basis and is very active in the community. He has brought over $10 million dollars into the Sharpsburg, Millvale and Etna areas to revitalize green open spaces, create new bike trail connectors, fund local community libraries.
PA Senate Endorsed Candidates
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PA State Senate
37
Nicole Ruscitto is a candidate for the 37th district PA state senate. She is focused on clean energy and clean air issues, and envisions an energy transition period to show Pennsylvania residents that they do not need to worry about job loss, as there will be plenty of employment options in the growing renewable energy field.
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PA State Senate
43
Jay Costa is the incumbent Senator for the 43rd senate district in Pennsylvania. He is interested and informed about key initiatives, including PRESS/PACER, Solar for Schools, Community Solar, and others, and is aware of the role that negotiations play in allotting funds to the causes that are important to environmentalists, and has worked to keep programs like the Growing Greener Grants funded, which allows for infrastructure projects with an environmental impact, such as storm water management. He sees clean air as a top priority, and how steel plants play a role in air quality.
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PA State Senate
45
Nick is running for election to represent District 45 in the PA Senate. He is the House district 38 incumbent, has spent his entire life in this district, has a BA from Washington & Jefferson and an MA from John Hopkins. As a state representative, Nick has some of the most bills introduced this session and is prominently involved in the Blue/Green Caucus leadership. Based on his local knowledge and family life experiences, he believes he is qualified to strike a balance between job retention at three U.S. Steel plants in his district and environmental policy. Nick led the effort in Western Pennsylvania for passage of Rep Fiedler’s Solar for Schools bill, helping get this bill into the budget by working with his liaisons in the Blue/Green Alliance. He helped get $400 million of federal IRA money for reducing carbon emissions for hard to abate industries, like cement manufacturing.
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PA State Senate
47
Kate is aware that residents of Beaver County are concerned over the pollution from the new Cracker Plant. Her district has many rail lines, and a potential train derailment disaster like that in neighboring East Palestine, OH is a real risk. She sees the need to build more solar and wind energy generation and increase public transportation in order to reduce the amount of carbon entering the atmosphere. She knows first-hand the impact of severe storms, as her mother, living in Vermont, experienced severe damaging floods in both 2023 and 2024. She wants to work with unions worried about job loss to show them a path to jobs in renewable energy manufacturing and installation.
PA House Endorsed Candidates
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PA State Rep
21
Lindsay Powell, a Sierra Club Environmental Champion, holds the District 21 PA House of Representatives seat. Overall human rights, the needs of poor and black and brown citizens, the environment and affordable housing are her top concerns. She sees labor and the green jobs movement working together and will encourage more job training for these jobs at the community college level.
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PA State Rep
30
Arvind Venkat represents the 30th District of the Pa House of Representatives, is an emergency room physician, and in his work as a legislator, focuses on bills related to health care such as medical debt relief, food allergies, AI in health care, and improving school systems. He supports bridge energy sources in addition to wind and solar.
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PA State Rep
36
Jessica Benham is the Incumbent Representative for PA House District 36. She stood with former Governor Wolf on RGGI, ad supports Governor Shapiro’s new Pacer/PRESS plan for pricing carbon pollution and for raising the renewable portfolio standard. She supports community solar energy d the Solar for Schools initiative. She recognizes that we need action on landslides and flooding, as these issues have a significant impact on the community.
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PA State Rep
33
Mandy Steele, PA Representative for District 33, is focused on finding ways to work with Republicans and the fossil fuel industry to find common ground around climate change. She supports a Sovereign Wealth Fund for Pennsylvania that would allow energy companies to get money back by controlling methane leaks in their systems. She sponsored several bills, including HB 1481, which supports striking workers and helps level the playing field for workers at the negotiating table by allowing them to qualify for unemployment compensation benefits, and HR 131, to conduct a study on the real cost of not having a severance tax on natural gas companies operating in Pennsylvania.
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PA State Rep
42
Dan Miller, a Sierra Club Environmental Champion, is running for re-election to represent District 42 in the PA House of Representatives. He is a very informed and experienced representative and he supports union labor, green energy and environmental clean-up. Dan supports investments in green energy, including nuclear, hydrogen, wind and solar, and sees the need to work with unions to move forward with these changes.
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PA State Rep
24
La’Tasha Mayes, 24th district state representative, is a Sierra Club Environmental Champion. She supported the Community Solar bill, HB1842, and wants more solar in her district. She is particularly interested in Environmental Justice Permits to ensure that fracking and other extraction work does not have an negative impact on poor communities of color or rural communities. One of her top priorities is working with community groups working on environmental justice and to make sure that they get clear information about environmental justice by location, and has worked with ALCOSAN to make sure that elderly black folks, disabled and those without reliable transportation and others in her district will always have access to clean water.
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PA State Rep
20
Emily Kinkead holds PA House District 20. Her whose voting record has led the is a Sierra Club Environmental Champion who has sponsored or co-sponsored over 300 bills in her 5 years in office. Currently she is developing a bill to expand the existing mine subsidence insurance program to also cover landslide insurance. She supports Community Solar, Solar for Schools, and Electric School buses. She supports increased solar and wind energy production.
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PA State Rep
44
Hadley Haas, Candidate for PA HD #44, prioritizes community safety and sees the need to bring labor on board with the move to renewable energy, as well as make renewable energy accessible to individuals, to educate the public about it and to reduce costs. She recognizes that there is misinformation that hurts clean energy initiatives, and that clean energy can be a powerful force for job growth.
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PA State Rep
34
Abigail Salisbury is the incumbent Representative in Pennsylvania House District 34. She is a member of the Bipartisan Caucas, and one of her main thrusts is advocating for environmental justice zones. Her district
encompasses many of the neighborhoods. Her constituents have been exposed to environmental hazards including poor air and water quality, and substandard housing. ""An environmental justice neighborhood is a community that experiences a disproportionate amount of environmental hazards or a lower quality of life, and is often made up of people of color or people living below the poverty line. Environmental justice is a key part of the fight to maintain a clean and healthy environment, especially for communities that are forced to live, work, and play near sources of pollution.
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PA State Rep
46
Alex Taylor, candidate for the PA House Seat District 46, and his family have lived in this district for generations. Alex supports environmental justice in his area, as he recognizes that many people in his district are victims of water, air and noise pollution brought about by fracking in their back yards. Electing him is an opportunity to defend real environmental issues and flip another house seat to Democrats making it possible to pass more green energy initiatives in Pennsylvania.
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PA State Rep
28
Emily Kinkead holds PA House District 20. Her whose voting record has led the is a Sierra Club Environmental Champion who has sponsored or co-sponsored over 300 bills in her 5 years in office. Currently she is developing a bill to expand the existing mine subsidence insurance program to also cover landslide insurance. She supports Community Solar, Solar for Schools, and Electric School buses. She supports increased solar and wind energy production.
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PA State Rep
39
Angela is running for the Pennsylvania House seat in District 39 against Andrew Kuzma the Republican Incumbent, who is funded by the fracking industry. In contrast, as a career teacher, she has been educating students about fossil fuels for 18 years and was National Teacher of the Year in 2021. She supports Solar for Schools, and wants to see young people interested in environmental, science, and chemistry courses and which will lead to our having strong leaders on these issues for years to come. When elected, she hopes to find other like-minded legislators with whom to work on environmental and air quality issues.
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PA State Rep
38
John has spent his entire life in District 38. He has a BA from Duquesne University and a masters from Westminster College. He teaches at West Mifflin high school, is in his 6th year as a West Mifflin borough commissioner and has led the successful effort to add electric vehicles to the borough’s fleet and install EV charging stations for borough and public use. He has personally seen the impacts of environmental degradation, supports the transition to renewable energy, and understands that many people see clean energy as a job killer, and recognizes the need to help people see it as a vehicle for job growth.
Other Endorsed Candidates On Your Ballot
Statewide Endorsements include:
- PA Attorney General - Engene DePasquale