Senate Champions
Environmental Champions demonstrate the highest level of commitment to protect our air, land, water, and public health. In 2009-2010 we recognize one Senator for his tireless dedication to the advancement of strong environmental policies in the state legislature.
Sen. Craig Pridemore (D-49)
Once again Sen. Craig Pridemore was the conscience of the Senate on matters pertaining to the environment. He is the institution’s most studied member on environmental issues and has the unique skills to foster broad support by working well with both the business community and his colleagues across the aisle. In 2009, he led the fight in the Senate to ensure that I-937, the citizens’ Clean Energy Initiative, was not weakened. In 2010, he worked with Republicans on an amendment against rolling back the green renewable tax credits that the community fought so hard to pass just one year earlier.
Senator Pridemore has made creating green jobs and protecting the clean energy sector a cornerstone of his career. Between his leadership on these issues and his multi-year effort to find ways for the state to tackle global warming pollution, it is no wonder that he is alone in his class as the Senate’s environmental champion in 2009-2010. Sen. Craig Pridemore was named WCV’s 2006 Legislator of the Year during his first term in office.
