Issue Position: Protecting Public Health, the Environment, and Conservation

Issue Position

The environment that we live and work in is crucial to our families, health, and economy. As a member of Congress, I will always fight for tougher and smarter provisions to ensure that our air, land, and water, and public health are protected. Additionally, I will work to ensure that companies that do pollute face stiff fines and pay to remediate any damage done, rather than forcing hardworking taxpayers to foot the bill for their irresponsibility.

I also take very seriously and will work to defend the provisions of Article I Section 27 of the Pennsylvania Constitution, which establishes that "The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. As trustee of these resources, the Commonwealth shall conserve and maintain them for the benefit of all the people."

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