Energy Conservation & Efficiency
Hundreds turn out for PennEnvironment’s annual citizen lobby day
Participants call on legislators to implement pending policies to tackle climate change
David
Masur
Executive Director, PennEnvironment
Started on staff: 1994
B.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison
As executive director, David spearheads the issue advocacy, civic engagement campaigns, and long-term organizational building for PennEnvironment. He also oversees PennPIRG and other organizations within The Public Interest Network that are engaged in social change across Pennsylvania. David’s areas of expertise include fracking, global warming, environmental enforcement and litigation, and clean energy and land use policy in Pennsylvania. David has served on the environmental transition teams for Gov. Tom Wolf and Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney. Under David’s leadership, PennEnvironment has won the two largest citizen suit penalties in Pennsylvania history against illegal polluters under the federal Clean Water Act and the largest citizen suit penalty under the federal Clean Air Act in state history.
Posts by David Masur
With momentum growing for Gov. Shapiro’s Energy Plan, hundreds lobby for climate solutions
Hundreds of Pennsylvanians from all walks of life joined the citizen climate lobby day on June 6th to press our elected officials in Harrisburg to move swiftly to implement climate solution policies
Harmful air pollution from U.S. Steel reduced as a result of PennEnvironment, Clean Air Council Lawsuit
U.S. Steel has permanently shut down Battery 15 and applied for tighter limits on pollution linked to asthma
Pittsburgh Public Schools completed effort to tackle threat of lead in drinking water
Their achievement sets gold standard for school districts across the nation
Another PA train derailment, another close call catastrophic accident averted
It’s not a matter of ‘if’ but ‘when’ the next East Palestine-type train accident, explosion occurs in the U.S.
