What a Year 2025 Has Been All Thanks to You!
As we wrap up 2025 and start thinking about what challenges and opportunities we will face next year, we want to take a moment to reflect on what we have accomplished this year. Despite a rollercoaster year for politics, regulatory rollbacks, and legislative holdups, we have many reasons to celebrate thanks to the support of our members like you.
As a nonpartisan advocacy organization, we are uniquely positioned to catalyze change through electoral engagement, legislative action, and community advocacy.
Let’s break down some highlights of 2025:
Electoral Engagement:
We have continued to forge important and strategic relationships with lawmakers from all across Pennsylvania, facilitating tough and necessary conversations to advance reasonable policies determined to improve our environmental and public health.
We raised awareness and encouraged the display of people power through voting in the 2025 election, resulting in some HUGE wins for Pennsylvania jobs, land, air and water.
All seven of our endorsed candidates won their campaigns across Pennsylvania showing that Pennsylvanians want champions for clean jobs and a clean environment to live.
We encouraged voter turnout and helped teach voters about what the judicial race means, why it matters and how it impacts your life.
We worked together with allies across Pennsylvania and America, including Jane Fonda’s group, JanePAC, to help elect bonafide environmental champions here in Pennsylvania.
The Clean Air Action team attended, by invitation, convenings with Philadelphia City Council Environmental Committee Chair Jamie Gauthier and Pennsylvania House Energy Committee Chair Elizabeth Fiedler.
Clean Air Action developed a survey to better understand what people from all over Pennsylvania really care about when it comes to politics, law making, and impacts to their everyday lives.
Clean Air Action partnered with other groups in the Ohio River Valley to encourage political support for lawmakers who vote to keep known toxic polluting industries from being built too close to homes, healthcare facilities, and schools. As a result, the Environmental Quality Board of PA voted to study these impacts more closely in order to develop policies to protect Pennsylvanians from preventable exposure to toxic chemicals.
Legislative Action:
Clean Air Actions has proudly supported:
HB 504 (Community Energy) - promoting homegrown energy to give ratepayers options
HB 501 (PRESS) - updating our state policy to include more clean energy sources
HB 1261 - protecting firefighters from PFAS exposure
HB 1260 - requiring new warehouses to support rooftop solar
Community Advocacy:
Clean Air Action played a direct role in supporting the Sugarloaf Township community member coalition that pushed back on a proposed plastic burning facility in Luzerne County, PA. This advocacy resulted in the plant’s withdrawal from the township.
We facilitated strong local momentum in several regions across the Ohio River Valley, including in West Virginia, to advocate for more clean economic developments instead of more Big Oil-backed plastic and toxic chemical manufacturing facilities that are known to emit harmful chemicals into our water, land, and air that get into our bodies and cause major health concerns.
Our Co-Director was invited to speak on a legal panel at a big annual coalition convening in West Virginia.
On short notice, the Clean Air Action team quickly provided local community members with informed questions to ask during a petrochemical industry-led local meeting intended to promote a proposed ammonia and chemical fertilizer facility connected to the regional hydrogen hub buildout in PA.
Media:
We had many hits in the press in 2025! Most recently, Political Director, Liz Green Schultz had her post election op-ed published in the Bucks County Beacon.
We hit the milestone of 500 followers on social media organically and we continue to grow our audience with the help of our newest Clean Air Action team member, Daisy!
Our Cleaning Up Dirty podcast was lucky enough to host both the Pennsylvania Speaker of the House, Joanna McClinton and famous VEEP actor, Reid Scott in 2025!
Clean Air Action looks forward to stirring up more good trouble in 2026, as we face this critical election for all U.S. House seats, half of the PA State Senate seats (even numbered districts), and all PA State House seats in 2026. We will continue to support candidates who do not make us choose between good jobs and healthy communities, but we depend on your support to make this happen.
As a nonprofit, we are not run by a corporate agenda, giving us the freedom to make a positive difference protecting our environment from polluters, but this also means we cannot do any of this work without the generosity of our faithful members. We are asking, in the spirit of giving gifts, that our members help us in our shared mission by donating before the end of 2025.
Thank you for all of your love and support. We hope you have a wonderful warm holiday!
— The Clean Air Action Team
