Ed Markey

ON THE ISSUES

• Co-authored the American Clean Energy and Security Act
• Voted for the Inflation Reduction Act, the most significant action Congress has ever taken to address climate change
• Earned a 94% lifetime score on LCV's National Environmental Scorecard

WHY THIS RACE MATTERS

• Contributing to this race now will help Markey build his campaign warchest early for his race in 2026
• Member of the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation and the Committee on Environment and Public Works

CANDIDATE BACKGROUND

Senator Ed Markey is serving his second term in the U.S. Senate representing Massachusetts. An attorney and member of the U.S. Army Reserve, Markey was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1976 and served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives beginning in 1973. Markey has been a long-time leader on climate and other environmental policies. In the U.S. House, he served on the Energy & Commerce Committee, the Natural Resources Committee and as the chair of the Select Committee for Energy Independence and Global Warming. Along with former U.S. Representative Henry Waxman (D-CA), he authored the American Clean Energy and Security Act, the first comprehensive climate bill to ever pass a chamber of Congress. 

In the Senate, he has continued his advocacy as a member of the Committee on Environment and Public Works and the Senate Democratic Special Committee on the Climate Crisis. He led efforts to investigate Exxon Mobil’s funding of climate denial, spoke out against the Trump administration’s rollbacks of our climate progress, introduced the resolution for a Green New Deal and called for a transition to 100 percent clean energy within the next 20 years. For his leadership, Senator Markey has earned a strong 94% lifetime score on LCV's National Environmental Scorecard.