Wisconsin

Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes is a staunch climate champion who knows that solving the climate crisis can help reinvigorate Wisconsin’s economy. In the Senate, Barnes will fight for critical clean energy investments that create high-quality, well-paying jobs in Wisconsin manufacturing solar panels and wind turbines. Having chaired the governor’s Climate Change Task Force, Barnes also understands that climate change is already having a devastating impact on communities across the state, including Wisconsin’s farms and agricultural sector. And with oil companies continuing to pull in massive profits – Exxon, Shell, and Chevron alone reported a combined $40 billion in profits for the second quarter of 2022 – while working families feel pain at the pump, Barnes supports a Big Oil windfall profits tax and cracking down on their price gouging.