Environment

Forgie: Fighting for Clean Air and Rivers

Forgie believes clean air & water is necessary for healthy neighborhoods, infrastructure must connect & protect, and clean energy needs smart fossil-to-future energy transitions.

Clean Air, Clean Water, Healthy Neighborhoods

Adam will:

• Enforce stricter environmental regulations to hold polluters accountable for air and water quality, especially in frontline communities in the Mon Valley and river towns in PA 12.
• Back federal funding for monitoring, remediation, and health studies where industrial pollution has harmed residents.
• Support environmental justice policies that prioritize investment in underinvested and overburdened communities.

Smart Fossil-to-Future Energy Transitions

Adam supports a balanced, realistic path to a clean-energy future:

• Protect existing energy jobs while aggressively funding new clean-energy projects — solar, wind, grid upgrades, battery manufacturing — so workers can transition into better jobs, not unemployment.
• Partner with unions, community colleges, and employers to retrain workers from legacy energy sectors into high-demand clean-energy and infrastructure careers.
• Oppose policies that simply shut facilities down without a plan for the workers and communities left behind.

Infrastructure That Connects and Protects Us

As mayor, Adam has dealt with aging pipes, roads, and bridges up close. In Congress he’ll:

• Secure federal infrastructure dollars to modernize bridges, roads, and transit — including saving and expanding Pittsburgh Regional Transit routes critical to PA-12 commuters.
• Champion the completion of projects like the Turtle Creek Valley Bike Trail Connector and other trail, transit, and mobility improvements that make our region safer, healthier, and more attractive to employers.
• Boost stormwater and flood-control investments to protect homes, small businesses, and essential infrastructure from increasingly severe storms.

Bottom Line

Forgie is for fair but firm environmental policies— clean air and water, modern infrastructure, and energy transitions that work for workers, not just markets.