
Ashleigh Deemer
Former Deputy Director, PennEnvironment Research & Policy Center
Former Deputy Director, PennEnvironment Research & Policy Center
Given that Allegheny County has a legacy of environmental and health challenges, local leaders need to be informed about air pollution, water pollution, waste, and solutions to these problems.
That’s why the PennEnvironment Research & Policy Center has brought together some of the Pittsburgh region’s top environmental policy organizations to develop the Green Allegheny Issue & Policy Agenda. The Agenda is a nonpartisan document intended to inform local leaders and concerned citizens about priority policy solutions that can help address the greatest environmental and public health threats facing Allegheny County.
Our partners in creating the Green Allegheny Issue & Policy Agenda include Women for a Healthy Environment, the Breathe Project, Clean Water Fund and Food & Water Watch.
The Green Allegheny Issue and Policy Agenda recommends 50 policies that county and municipal leaders can implement, including increasing penalties against air polluters who break the law, powering county and municipal buildings with 100% renewable energy, and banning certain single-use plastics.
Nearly 30 groups and individuals, listed here, signed on in support of the Agenda:
Organizations
PennEnvironment Research & Policy Center
Breathe Project
Women for a Healthy Environment
Food & Water Watch
Clean Water Fund
Three Rivers Waterkeeper
Physicians for Social Responsibility PA
Group Against Smog & Pollution
Humane Action Pittsburgh
Allegheny Cleanways
Communitopia
Allegheny County Clean Air Now (ACCAN)
Community Partners in Asthma Care
Rail Pollution Protection Pittsburgh (RP3)
UpstreamPgh
Millvale Community Development Corporation
Clean Air Council
Grounded Strategies
350 Pittsburgh
Center for Coalfield Justice
Cancer and Environment Network of Southwestern Pennsylvania
Chalfant Run/Thompson Run Watershed Association
Environmental Health Project
Individuals
Adam R. Forgie, Mayor, Turtle Creek
Dan Peluso, Commissioner, Leet Township
State Rep. La’Tasha D. Mayes, District 24
Patricia M. DeMarco, Vice President, Forest Hills Borough Council
The Agenda will be distributed to all candidates in Allegheny County, and candidates for County Executive, County Council and Pittsburgh City Council will be invited to meet with PennEnvironment Research & Policy Center to be briefed on the issues. All materials provided to candidates will be provided on the Green Allegheny Issue & Policy Agenda website.
Former Deputy Director, PennEnvironment Research & Policy Center