Region: Northeast

Sue Altman

Sue Altman has a long record of championing progressive issues in Trenton, and challenging political leaders on both sides of the aisle – qualities that will be essential to running an energetic, forceful campaign in a battleground district.

The former Executive Director of New Jersey Working Families Alliance, Altman has proven that she isn’t afraid to speak truth to power to advance the fight for a fairer, healthier, and more just society. Winning a high-profile race in a battleground district like this will require a determined and passionate voice for social change. Sue Altman is the kind of candidate who can articulate a vision that will motivate voters to show up this November.

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Summer Lee

Summer Lee is a lifelong resident of southwest Pennsylvania. Before arriving in Congress in 2022, Summer was a state legislator and social justice organizer, so she has spent years fighting pollution in Allegheny County. Food & Water Action helped her stop a fracking well in her hometown of Braddock, PA and supported her efforts to end fossil fuel handouts.

In Congress, she has fought to end fracking, pass a Green New Deal, provide clean energy jobs, and to ensure clean air and water for all, especially marginalized communities.

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Josh Riley

Josh Riley will be a champion for upstate New York’s rural communities. His top priority is fighting for a sustainable agriculture system.

Josh’s solutions include breaking up Big Ag monopolies, and creating federal agriculture policy that rewards farmers who protect the environment by farming sustainably. Upstate New York needs a champion for sustainable agriculture like Josh!

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Bonnie Watson Coleman

Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman has served New Jersey’s 15th Congressional District since 2015. She has been a champion for the environment. In 2023, she was the only member of New Jersey’s congressional delegation to come out in opposition to the LNG export terminal proposed for Gibbstown, NJ. 

Representative Watson Coleman is the lead sponsor of the WATER Act, the landmark 21st-century legislation that we need to restore federal support and help protect clean water. The WATER Act is the only permanent solution to our nation’s water funding woes, providing $35 billion each year to restore our public water infrastructure.

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Chris DeLuzio

A voting rights attorney and labor activist, Chris DeLuzio brings to Congress his experiences protecting our elections and successfully organizing for the University of Pittsburgh Faculty union.

In February 2023, Chris’ constituents in Beaver County and their neighbors in East Palestine, Ohio were put in danger when a train carrying toxic chemicals derailed in our backyards. People in his community were evacuated, impacted by toxic chemicals in the air and potential contamination of their drinking water. Families were scared that their homes were no longer a safe place to live. Chris responded by introducing his Railway Safety Act to protect his constituents from corporations like Norfolk Southern, which only care about their own profits.

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Dr. Clarence Lam

Dr. Clarence Lam has a long track record of fighting for the environment.

In his time in the state legislature, Lam introduced legislation to ban fracking chemicals, regulate the pesticide chlorpyrifos, stop oil trains from running through Baltimore, and strengthen Maryland’s Renewable Portfolio Standard.

Dr. Lam’s background as a medical doctor and public health specialist will provide a much-needed voice of authority in Congress to speak on the impacts of pollution. In endorsement interviews, Lam committed to supporting a ban on oil and liquefied natural gas exports, as well as fighting climate scams like carbon capture.

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