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.
Residents on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border are returning to their homes this week following their evacuations over looming explosion fears after a train carrying 20 cars of hazardous materials derailed.
New resource from the White House will help individuals, businesses, cities, states and community organizations tap programs to save energy, save money and act on climate change, including tax credits for rooftop solar and electric vehicles.
Organizers with Green Corps boost PennEnvironment's campaign
After years of fracking pollution, the Delaware River Basin Commission finalized a ban on fracking in the Delaware River Watershed. This action will protect the watershed that provides drinking water for more than 15 million people from harmful contaminants from dirty drilling.
