The League of Conservation Voters recently issued its National Environmental Scorecard for 2007. Legislators receive a score from zero to 100, which reflects the percentage of their pro-environment votes. If they miss a vote, it counts as an "anti" environment vote. For the 2007 report, the league counted 15 votes in the Senate, analyzing how politicians voted on fuel economy standards for cars and light trucks, renewable energy, policies for oil refineries, offshore drilling, liquid coal, the farm bill, oil subsidies, global warming, clean air, wolf recovery, family planning and other legislation. Here's how the three leading Presidential Candidates and their voting records stack up:
Hillary Clinton scored a 73, but had a perfect pro-environment record on the 11 issues she voted on. In previous league reports, she scored between 88 and 92.
Barack Obama had a 67, down from his 96 in the previous session. He missed three of the 15 votes used in the report. Of the 12 issues he did vote on, he voted anti-environment just once when he voted against establishing a Water Resources Commission that would prioritize water resource projects nationally.
John McCain scored a zero. He missed all 15 votes that counted. In the past he's ranged from a 6 to a 56.
I will give John McCain credit for his support of the planet, which only enrages the extreme conservative base. Here's what he said in a speech this morning at the James Baker Institute at Rice University in Houston; “Suppose we who believe climate change is taking place are wrong, and we go ahead and develop these new technologies– hybrid cards, wind power, solar, tide energy, ways at reducing and eliminating greenhouse gases. Suppose that we are wrong, and do this, all that we’ve done that is given our children a cleaner planet. Suppose that we are right, and we do nothing, the answer is obvious.”
No wonder the conservatives hate him.
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