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Environmental scores
Feb 11, 2012
In its 2011 National Environmental Scorecard, the League of Conservation Voters gave a perfect score to one senator from North Carolina and a single-digit grade to the other.
The league rates members of Congress based on their votes on issues ranging from public health protections to clean energy to land and wildlife conservation. The 2011 scorecard includes 11 Senate votes and a record 35 House votes.
North Carolina’s Congressional delegation ratings include:
- • Sen. Richard Burr (R), 9 percent
- • Sen. Kay Hagan (D), 100 percent
- • Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-5), 3 percent
- • Rep. Howard Coble (R-6), 11 percent
- • Rep. Larry Kissell (D-8), 66 percent
- • Rep. Mel Watt (D-12), 97 percent
Hagan was the only delegation member with a 100 percent score. None were rated at 0 percent, though Foxx came close. The average House score for North Carolina in 2011 was 50 percent, and the average Senate score was 55 percent.
The league says this year’s scorecard “reflects the most anti-environmental session of the U.S. House of Representatives in history, featuring unparalleled assaults on our nation’s bedrock environmental and public health safeguards.”
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