Representatives
Paul Hodes and Carol Shea-Porter of New
Hampshire’s Congressional delegation voted for the
environment 100% of the
time in the 110th Congress, according to the annual Congressional
Scorecard on major environmental issues released today by Environment New
Hampshire.
Environment
New Hampshire is distributing the individual
Congressional scorecards to tens of thousands of households in New
Hampshire as part of its door-to-door campaign to pass
regulations that increase the proportion of low-emission, fuel efficient cars
and trucks on the road. Environment New Hampshire is releasing its annual scorecard as part of its national campaign
to pass legislation in Congress requiring
a minimum amount of electricity come from clean, renewable energy sources.
“Congressman
Hodes and Congresswoman Shea-Porter have again and again put the environment
ahead of special interests. In the 110th
Congress both successfully fought to keep our beautiful coasts free of
off-shore oil drilling, defend protections for endangered species like the
polar bear and the recently recovered bald eagle, and make polluters pay to
clean up contaminated groundwater,” said Environment
New Hampshire Advocate Erika Staaf. “These scorecards are an important tool to
educate the public about the voting records of their elected officials and to
honor public officials like this that have a record of putting the environment
first.”
In addition to tracking such key environmental votes as protecting
the purity of our air and water; reducing global warming pollution; promoting
alternative energy use; and increasing mileage standards for vehicles, the scorecards also list information about campaign
contributions, biographical data, past Environment New Hampshire scores, and
telephone numbers for citizens to contact their elected officials.
“We
applaud Reps Hodes and Shea-Porter for
being heroes for the environment. They
were the only two members of New
Hampshire’s federal delegation to receive a 100
percent score for consistently voting to protect the environment,” said Staaf.
With the help of these members of Congress, the 110th Already, the House of Representatives has
voted to cut billions of dollars in subsidies to big oil and the Senate has
voted to raise gas mileage standards for the first time in over 20 years.
Congress is making progress in several key areas.
“We urge other members of New Hampshire’s
delegation to join with Reps. Hodes and Shea-Porter and work to strengthen our
environmental laws—to stop global warming pollution, move America towards a cleaner energy future, and
clean up America’s
most treasured waterways,” concluded Staaf.
