Maryland Candidates' RENEW Pledge
What is the RENEW Pledge?
The RENEW Act is Maryland’s climate superfund bill. It acknowledges that the largest, most polluting fossil fuel companies in the world have turned the global atmosphere into a de facto superfund site by burning fossil fuels and deceiving the public for decades. Thanks to the work of Delegate David Fraser-Hidalgo (District 15- Montgomery County), Senator Katie Fry-Hester (District 9- Howard and Montgomery Counties), Delegate Adrian Boafo (District 23- Prince George’s County), and members of the Maryland General Assembly, Maryland’s bill to quantify the cost of climate change in state passed in 2025. Now the Comptroller’s Office is working on a comprehensive study to determine how much climate impacts are costing the state.
In 2027, CCAN Action Fund and coalition partners will work to pass the RENEW Act Implementation bill to ensure that polluters will cover some of these costs that Maryland has identified for necessary climate change adaptation. These funds, once collected, will be directed to a special fund and dispersed for projects around the state.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the undersigned supports the Responding to Emergency Needs from Extreme Weather (RENEW) Act which will:
–Invest billions of dollars into preparing for and recovering from extreme weather events in Maryland and into making sure Marylanders have the health care coverage they need, especially to survive climate caused illness
–Prioritize under-served communities and those communities which are overburdened by infrastructure vulnerabilities to extreme weather
– Take the burden of paying for adaptation costs off of Maryland taxpayers and place that burden on a small number of the world’s largest oil, coal, and gas companies, none of which are based in Maryland
Did YOUR Candidate Sign the Pledge?
The Chesapeake Climate Action Network (CCAN) Action Fund’s primary electoral work this season is ensuring every candidate for the Maryland House of Delegates and Maryland Senate is educated on our key issues and provides their stance on those issues.
Make Polluters Pay
We applaud these candidates and thank them for being climate leaders in Maryland:
House of Delegates
1A | Jobe, Jason
2A | Leonard, John D.
2A | Thompson, Brandon
3 | Kerr, Ken
3 | Simpson, Karen
4 | Donald, Jerry
4 | Duck, Andrew
4 | Stanley, Alleria
5 | Bergman, Dayana
5 | Whistler, Steve
6 | Metzgar, Ric
7A | Brown, Ly Xinzhen
7B | Hart, Candace
8 | Allen. Nick
8 | Riemer, Steven
9A | Wu, Chao
9B | Matin, Abdun
9B | Watson, Courtney
10 | White-Holland, Jennifer
11B | Stein, Dana
12A | Feldmark, Jessica
12A | Heard, Joshua M.
13 | Moreno, Gabriel
13 | Guzzone, Pam
14 | Contreras-Donello, Alicia
15 | Foley, Linda
15 | Fraser-Hidalgo, David
16 | Ahmad, Tazeen
16 | Korman, Marc
16 | Wolek, Sarah
16 | Woorman,Teresa
17 | Palakovich Carr, Julie
17 | Reed, Christopher S.
17 | Vogel, Joe
18 | Kaufman, Aaron M.
18 | Stein, Kate
19 | Dasgupta, Sunil
19 | Johnson, Sebastian
19 | Sorrel, Gabriel
19 | Tichy, Christa
20 | Charkoudian, Lorig
20 | Moon, David
20 | Wilkins, Jheanelle
22 | Gant, Tracy
22 | Hayes, Craig
22 | Martinez, Ashanti
22 | McKee-Seabrook, Molly
23 | Bance, Michael
23 | Taylor, Kym
23 | Riker, Michael
24 | Coley, Derrick
24 | Fraser, Stanford
24 | Fletcher Harrison, Andrea
24 | Ward, LaTasha
25 | Angel, Angela M.
25 | Roberson, Kent
25 | Roberts, Denise
25 | Thompson, Antoine M.
25 | Tolbert, 3rd, Joseph
26 | Woods, Jamila
27A | Crosby Jr., Clifton
27A | Maldon, Shawn
27A | Moore, Yonelle Lee
27A | Odom, Sr., Darrell C.
27B | Jones, Rachel R.
27B | Long, Jr., Jeffrie E.
27C | Davidson, Jennifer M.
28 | Affum-McAllister, Abena
28 | Davis, Debra
28 | Patterson, Edith J.
28 | Smith, Evan
29A | Clancy, Jennifer Lynn
29C | Abney, J.W.
29C | Watts, Shaara
30A | Behler, Dylan
30A | O’Neal, Bradley K.
31 | Barone Cole, Joan
31 | Buchanan Schmidt, Heidi
32 | Dixon, Spencer F.
32 | Rogers, Mike
32 | Thomas, Steven
33B | Cook, Chuck
33B | Schmidt, Jr., Stuart M.
33C | Bagnall, Heather
34A | Johnson, Jr., Andre V.
35A | Eckels, Jr., Michael A.
35B | Oluwadare, Blessing T.
36 | Ravert, Michelle
37B | Johnson, Michele W.
38B | Hastings, Josh
39 | Wu, Robert T.
40 | Edwards, Dianté
40 | Parker, Crystal Jackson
41 | Anderson, Shannice
41 | Muldrow, Adrian
42B | Guyton, Michele
43A | Boyce, Regina T.
43A | Embry, Elizabeth
44A | Ebersole, Eric
44B | McCaskill, Aletheia
44B | Ruth, Sheila
45 | Young, Caylin
47B | Taveras, Deni
Senate
3 | Lewis Young, Karen
4 | Westdorp, Lara
9 | Fry Hester, Katie
16 | Bartolo, Lou James
17 | Cook, Philip
23 | Ahmed, Raaheela
24 | Ford, Jr., Kevin
25 | Charles, Nick
26 | Muse, Anthony C.
27 | Fowler, Jason T.
27 | Harris, Kevin
28 | Wilson, C. T.
29 | Borges, Chuck
32 | Chang, Mark S.
32 |Tillett, Stephen A.
34 | Miller, Blane
39 | Mukunda, Amar
39 | West, Destiny Drake
41 | Attar, Dalya
41 | Ruff, Malcolm
42| Henderson, Paul
46| LaPin, Bobby
This document is updated as of June 2, 2026.
It's Not Too Late: Ask Your Candidates To Sign The Pledge!
Thank you to our partners at Third Act for supporting the work of collecting pledge signatories! Their tireless efforts are helping to empower climate champions across the state and educate voters on our shared priority issues!
Resources
- Candidates: Sign The RENEW Pledge
For more information, please contact:
Brittany Baker, Maryland Director, CCAN Action Fund
