Sean Casten Endorsed By
Endorsing Organizations
League of Conservation Voters
Sierra Club Illinois Chapter
Illinois Education Association
Red to Blue
Citizen Action - Illinois
Equality PAC
HSDA
IL Muslim Civic Coalition
SEEC PAC
NCPSSM
Smart-Union
Indo-American Democratic Organization
Social Security Works
Northeastern Illinois Chapter of Americans
PL+US Action Paid Family Leave
Northern Illinois American Muslim Alliance
National Partnership for Women & Families Action Fund
Alliance for Retired Americans
Illinois Chapter of NOW
MoveOn.org
Feminist Majority Political Action Committee
J-Street PAC
United Food and Commercial Workers Local 881
Indivisible Illinois
United Automobile Workers
Teamsters Joint Council 25
Service Employees International Union
AFSCME Council 31
American Federation of Government Employees
Kane County Coalition
SwingLeft
National Education Association
Jewish Democratic Council of America
End Citizens United
Climate Hawks Vote
Leadership Now Project
314 Action
Planned Parenthood
NARAL
AFL-CIO
Illinois Federation of Teachers
Human Rights Campaign
National Organization For Women
NRDC Action Fund
Everytown for Gun Safety
Illinois AFL-CIO
20/20 Vision
Indivisible Northwest Illinois
Chicago Laborers' District Council
Animal Wellness Action
Also Endorsed By
Jigar Shah
Founder, SunEdison
Clark Bullard
Former Director, US Department of Energy Office of Conservation & Renewable Policy
Peter Fox-Penner
Former Deputy Administrator of the US EPA
Clark Bullard
Former Director, US Department of Energy Office of Conservation & Renewable Policy
Don Wuebbles
Former Deputy Director at the Office of Science and Technology Policy under President Obama
John Schmitt
Algonquin Village President
Erik Spande
Winfield Village President
Nate Sippel
Naperville Township Clerk
Eddie Bedford
Naperville Township Supervisor
Liz Chaplin
DuPage County Board Member, District 02
Charles Bayless
Former President & Provost, West Virginia Institute of Technology
Board member of multiple energy and climate organizations
Chris James
Former Manager Climate Change and Energy Programs at the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection
Connecticut Staff Lead at RGGI
Joel Gordes
Chief Strategist, Center for Energy Security Solutions
John Jimison
Former Senior Counsel, U.S. House Energy & Commerce Committee
Former Executive Director, U.S. Combined Heat & Power Association
John Noel
2008 recipient of the Governor’s Lifetime Conservation Achievement Award, Tennessee’s highest environmental accolade from Governor Phil Bredesen
John Topping
National Environmental Leader and recognized by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for contributions that led to their 2007 Nobel Peace Prize
Ken Colburn
Former Director, Air Resources Division of the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services
Michael MacCracken
Senior Scientist, Office of the US Global Change Research Program (retired)
Senior Scientist for Climate Change Programs, Climate Institute
Peter Byck
Senior Sustainability Scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University
Director, Producer, and Writer of “Carbon Nation”
Ross Gelbspan
Author of The Heat is On and Boiling Point
Former Editor and Reporter at The Boston Globe
Co-recipient of a Pulitzer Prize for public service reporting
Frederick W. Weston III
Vermont Public Service Board, 1989 – 2000
Co-Chair, NARUC Staff Sub-Committee to the Committee on Conservation, 1994-1997
Co-Chair, NARUC Staff Sub-Committee to the Ad Hoc Committee on Electric Industry Restructuring, 1996-1998
John A. “Skip” Laitner
Former Senior Economist for Technology Policy, US EPA
Past President, Association for Environmental Studies & Sciences
John Cuttica
Director, Energy Resources Center, University of Illinois Chicago (retired)
Vice President End Use Research & Development, Gas Research Institute (retired)
Joyce Coffee
President, Climate Resilience Consulting
Kendrick Frazier
Editor, Skeptical Inquirer
Former editor, Science News
Author, “The Violent Face of Nature”
Lee Lynd
Queneau Distinguished Professor in Environmental Engineering Design, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College
Neal Elliott
Recipient of the USCHPA’s Champion of Combined Heat and Power Award
Energy professional with four decades advising government, business and non-profits on energy efficiency markets, technology and policy
Steve Cowell
President, E4 The Future
Former President and Founder, Conservation Services Group
2017 Winner of Northeast Clean Energy Council’s “”Decade of Influence”” Award”
Suzanne Watson
Former Senior Climate and Energy Advisor, Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management
Andrew Balser
Arctic Scientist specializing in permafrost and climate change
Carl Irwin
Director, Energy Efficiency Division, West Virginia University
Dharam Punwani
President, Avalon Consulting
Energy efficiency advisor & consultant to numerous companies, institutions and municipalities
Jito Coleman
President and VP Engineering at Northern Power Systems (retired)
Chair of the ACT 250 District 5 Environmental Commission, State of Vermont
Founding Member of AWEA R&D Committee
Mark Laser
Senior Research Scientist & Lecturer, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College
Nancy LaPlaca
Former policy advisor to Commissioner Paul Newman, Arizona Corporations Commission
Paul Lemar
President, Resource Dynamics Corporation
Peter van Walsum
Associate Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Forest Bioproducts Research Institute, University of Maine
Ted Bronson
President, Power Equipment Associates and 2003 “”CHP Champion”” from the United States Combined Heat & Power Association
Former Associate Director, Distributed Energy Technology Center at the Gas Technology Institute