Rep. Johnson aces environmental report card
Georgia Congressman earns an “A” protecting the environment despite the ‘most anti-environment session in U.S. House history’
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson (GA-04) announced today that he earned a 94 percent voting record on The League of Conservations Voters (LCV) 2011 National Environmental Scorecard. The 2011 Scorecard works to turn environmental values into national priorities.
Johnson's 95 percent lifetime score is the highest among the 15 members of the Georgia Congressional delegation.
“Protection of our imperiled planet is a central challenge of our time,” said Johnson. “I’m very proud of my record.”
Last summer, Rep. Johnson, his Congressional Progressive Caucus colleagues and the Sustainable Energy & Environment Coalition (SEEC) held a mini-filibuster on the House floor to fight against the interior appropriations bill (H.R. 2584, FY 2012 Interior-Environment Appropriations Act) because it made draconian cuts to environmental programs and changed long standing policy for the betterment of polluters.
Johnson called the bill “nothing more than an attempt to remove 40 years of federal laws that protect our seas, air, land, and wildlife.”
LCV agrees with Rep. Johnson, saying the 2011 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.
“In 2011, the House Republican leadership unleashed a truly breathtaking and unprecedented assault on the environment and public health, the breadth and depth of which have made the current U.S. House of Representatives the most anti-environmental in our nation’s history,” said LCV President Gene Karpinski.
“LCV is grateful to the Obama administration, allies in the Senate and House, and the millions of people across the country who helped to ensure that the House leadership did not succeed in gutting our nation’s cornerstone environmental and public health protections in 2011.”
For over 40 years, the National Environmental Scorecard issued by LCV has been the nationally accepted yardstick used to rate members of Congress on environmental, public health and energy issues.
The full 2011 National Environmental Scorecard can be found at www.lcv.org/scorecard
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