John Hanger was born on 1957 and is the former Pennsylvania Secretary of Planning and Policy, serving on the executive staff of Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf.
12 Facts About John Hanger
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John Hanger is a former Commissioner of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission and Of Counsel at law firm Eckert Seamans.
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John Hanger was a candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania in 2014, before withdrawing from the primary.
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John Hanger is one of two Pennsylvanians who have served both as a Secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection and as Commissioner of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission.
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John Hanger was born in Nairobi, Kenya, to British parents who then moved to Dublin, Ireland and then to the United States when he was ten years old.
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John Hanger took a job at Community Legal Services where he advocated for people who could not pay their utility bills which eventually led to him taking a position under state representative Joseph Rhodes Jr.
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John Hanger contributed to writing and passing legislation such as Pennsylvania's 1996 Electricity Generation Competition and Customer Choice Act, the 2004 Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards Act, the 2005 Growing Greener 2 legislation, the 2007 Net Metering statute, the 2008 Act 129 initiating major electricity conservation programs, the 2008 Act 70 requiring DEP to write a climate change action plan, the 2008 Alternative Fuels Act, the 2010 Recycling Fee extension, and others.
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John Hanger was the founding President of Citizens for Pennsylvania's Future or PennFuture from 1998 to 2008, a public interest organization with the objective of improving the environment and economy.
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John Hanger was considered a possible candidate for the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate election in 2004 against Arlen Specter.
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John Hanger's campaign supported the immediate legalization of medical marijuana by allowing doctors to prescribe marijuana for treatment of appropriate conditions and illnesses as is done in 20 other states.
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John Hanger supported removing criminal penalties for possession of small amounts of marijuana as soon as possible, and proposed to later legalize, regulate, and tax recreational marijuana in Pennsylvania.
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John Hanger endorsed Tom Wolf in the 2014 Democratic Primary for Governor.