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. David’s areas of expertise include fracking, global warming, environmental enforcement and litigation, and clean energy and lead in school drinking water policy. He also oversees PennPIRG and other organizations within The Public Interest Network that are engaged in social change across Pennsylvania. David has served on the environmental transition teams for Govs. Josh Shapiro and Tom Wolf, and Philadelphia Mayors Cherelle Parker and Jim Kenney. He was also recognized in the 2023 Pennsylvania Government Relations Power 100. 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 as well as the two largest citizen suit penalties under the federal Clean Air Act in state history.
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
U.S. Steel has permanently shut down Battery 15 and applied for tighter limits on pollution linked to asthma
Their achievement sets gold standard for school districts across the nation
It’s not a matter of ‘if’ but ‘when’ the next East Palestine-type train accident, explosion occurs in the U.S.
