Montgomery County Endorsements
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US Congress
PA 4
The environment is a top priority for Madeleine, dating from her time in the Pennsylvania legislature. She believes that the right to clean air and water and a clean environment enshrined in Pennsylvania's Constitution should be enjoyed by everyone. She re-introduced the PFAS Accountability Act, aiming to establish a cause of action, holding companies accountable for contaminating land and waterways. She has a strong interest in expanding rail service in her district, dating from her days as a Township Commissioner.
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US Congress
PA 5
Mary Gay Scanlon considers protecting the environment a major part of her lifelong advocacy for children and families. She appreciates the “important work the Sierra Club does identifying issues where we can make a real difference, helping to educate me and the public”. “Climate is in my main bucket of focus”. She has worked hard to defend and protect the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and prevent rollbacks. As part of her public outreach, she has hosted several workshops across her district to educate people on how they can benefit from the IRA and to understand the big picture of climate and the IRA. She helped to bring funds to the Eastwick section of Philadelphia to mediate against increased flooding due to climate change, and has worked to improve water quality for the section of the Delaware River that goes through Philadelphia that currently is impacted by waste water and untreated storm water runoff..
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PA Senate
12
Sen. Collett wants to see a doubling down on renewable energy. She sees communities hollowed out by oil and gas operations first coming in and extracting, and then departing leaving contamination in their wake. She sees the short-sightedness of towns turning down renewable energy projects and then approving data centers with all their impacts.
Maria is an Incumbent - she has a 92% Environmental Voting Score.
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PA State Senator
44
Katie sees threats to the environment from the Trump administration’s deregulatory agenda and is aware of concerns about the vulnerability that creates for Pennsylvania’s environment. Data centers have become a major focus for Sen. Muth. She supports the adoption of a moratorium on data center approval until adequate safeguards can be put in place.
Katie is an Incumbent - she has a 100% Environmental Voting Score.
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PA Senate
24
Chris has a “No Blank Check for Big Tech” plan that targets the data center boom in Pennsylvania. Utilities need to be held accountable for not inflating energy demand and requiring new clean energy investments to cover 100% of a new data center’s energy usage..
Chris is a Challenger - the Incumbent has a 0% Environmental Voting Score.
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PA State Rep
53
Rep Malagari co-sponsored HB 1834 on rate structure for data center and consumers. He is concerned about what's not visible (electromagnetic, vibration, sound), electricity affordability, and impacts to water resources, infrastructure and hospitals. And EJ considerations also need to be applied to siting.
Steve is an Incumbent - he has a 93% Environmental Voting Score.
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PA State Rep
146
Joe pushed legislation to build EV charging infrastructure, redirecting fossil fuel funding, which passed in the House. He also wants to advance green tech solutions, such as requiring see school districts required to consider geothermal energy in new construction.
Joe is an Incumbent - he has a 96% Environmental Voting Score.
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PA State Rep
150
Joe has championed watershed protection, especially in a storm water management plan for the Perkiomen watershed (intended to reduce flooding, reduce erosion, protect environment & clean water). and introduced several environmental quality measures, such as And his bill on the overuse of road salt that would bring DOT training to municipalities on proper road salting, saving them money as well.
Joe is an Incumbent - he has a 98% Environmental Voting Score.
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PA State Rep
131
Meriam is a strong advocate for Environmental Justice communities. And she feels that data centers are a “big issue” and should not be approved under their “light industrial” zoning plan.
Meriam is a Challenger - the incumbent for this seat has a 7% Lifetime Environmental Voting Score.
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PA State Rep
149
Rep. Briggs will continue to push for waste reduction measures and plastics waste reduction in particular. He wants data centers required to not only to bring their own energy, but to make it clean renewable energy..
Tim is an Incumbent - he has a 99% Environmental Voting Score.
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PA State Rep
61
Liz is a co-sponsor for the data centers bill that requires an increasing supply of clean energy on new projects - HB1834. She also has a bill on enabling HOA residents to install solar panels. She wants to see more incentivizing green tech for water and air quality protection, and in particular, for mitigating the impacts of fossil fuel generation, and site cleanup. Asked about solar farming, she noted New Jersey has much better incentives for it.
Liz is an Incumbent - she has a 98% Environmental Voting Score.
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PA State Rep
152
Rep. Nelson has been contributing to environmental protection efforts beginning during the Wolf administration and has not stopped: growing green spaces and parks, transforming a Springfield tank car lot to parkland, establishing a new state park, getting a small DEP staffing increase, moving the Growing Greener legislation.
Napoleon is an Incumbent - he has a 98% Environmental Voting Score.
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