A lifelong Ohioan, Senator Sherrod Brown has spent his career fighting for the Dignity of Work – the idea that hard work should pay off for everyone, no matter who you are, where you live, or what kind of work you do.

Environment

• Sherrod Brown has voted pro-environment 94% of the time in his career, according to the League of Conservation Voters.
• First Solar Energy announced a $185 million investment to expand its manufacturing facilities in Wood County, made possible by U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown’s (D-OH) work to pass the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.
• U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) joined 23 of his Great Lakes colleagues from the House and Senate to introduce the bipartisan Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Act of 2024.
  • Brown secured a significant investment for the GLRI in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill (BIL) signed into law in 2021. In 2019, Brown secured investment in the GLRI, which provides resources to communities to address the most serious issues that threaten the Great Lakes basin, including invasive species, and pollution.
• Senator Brown announces $1.9M for brownfield revitalization in NE Ohio, $900,000 for SE Ohio, and $500,000 for Lima, and $1.2M for Cincinnati

Public Health

• S.4045 Cosponsored — East Palestine Health Impact Monitoring Act of 2024
  • The legislation would require a study on the public health impacts of the February 3, 2023, train derailment in East Palestine. The study will assess the human health impacts of the derailment and subsequent chemical venting and burning. The bill now heads to the full Senate for a vote.
• U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) announced that the state of Ohio is receiving another major investment from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to upgrade aging water infrastructure, replace lead pipes, and address emerging contaminants.
  • Funds secured by Brown through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act
• In 2022, Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) voted in support of the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA)
  • Protect Women’s Freedom to Make Their Own Health Decisions Without Interference from Politicians

Democracy

• As a former Ohio Secretary of State, Sherrod has long championed voting rights, and the Washington Post called his voter registration efforts, “probably the most intensive and wide-ranging in the nation.”
• S.4554 Cosponsored — Reproductive Freedom for Women Act
• U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) joined colleagues in reintroducing the Protecting Election Administration from Interference Act, which will protect election workers and volunteers.
• Voted against the prohibition to use funds to enforce Executive Order 14019, which promotes and expands voting access for millions of Americans by directing federal agencies to consider ways to expand citizens’ opportunities to register to vote and participate in the electoral process
  

Consumer Rights

• 100% pro-union voting record in 2023 and lifetime.
• Brown has long been a leader for Ohio’s rural communities and fights to secure crucial funding for USDA grant and loan programs.
  • North Central Electric Cooperative based in Attica, Ohio was awarded a loan to begin and continue projects that will create affordable and reliable energy in eight Northwest Ohio counties. Electrical improvements in Richland, Crawford, Seneca, Hancock, Wyandot, Wood, Huron, and Sandusky counties will create and attract jobs, lower electricity costs for families, prevent power outages, and secure the nation’s energy independence.