Scorecard
Get the Score! We tally the votes for you so you can learn how your elected representatives voted on important environmental issues. As residents of Massachusetts, we expect our elected officials to support common-sense environmental policies. That is why we compile and publish the Massachusetts Environmental Scorecard. The scorecard is a tool that you can use to distinguish between those legislators who vote to protect our quality of life and those who offer empty promises. It provides non-partisan, objective information about how each legislator voted on a wide range of environmental issues during each regular session of the Massachusetts State Legislature.
2007 Mid-Term Progress Report
Find out how your legislators voted in 2007 on key environmental issues during the first year of their two-year session. Scroll down for a copy!
2006 Environmental Scorecard
Welcome to our inaugural legislative scorecard! The Environmental Scorecard is your guide to how your Massachusetts state legislators voted on key environmental issues during the past legislative session. This was one of the best sessions in the last six years for the environment. We saw three major environmental bills become law, defeated several anti-environmental proposals, and increased the budget for environmental programs by nearly nine percent. Both the environmental community and many pro-environment lawmakers worked hard to achieve these successes. Unfortunately, despite these victories, dozens of priority environmental bills continued to languish without a vote; stalled in various committees.
** Please note that the printed version of the Scorecard incorrectly lists the following should be: Rep. DiMasi: 82% voting, 82 final, Rep. LeDuc -Mercury amend. vote should be anti-environmental; no score change, Rep. Naughton- Expedited permitting amend. B should be pro-environment; no score change, Rep. Wallace- Expedited permitting B should be Absent, no score change, Rep. Walz : 71% voting, 73 final (change Budget DEP and GIS votes to pro-environment), Rep. Webster : 21% voting, 21 final (change Budget DEP and GIS votes to anti-environment). Senator Murray- Outer Brewster should be anti-environmental vote; no score change, Senator Rosenberg- 83% voting, 86 final.
Following Reps. weren’t listed: Rep. Spellane: 71% voting, 73 final, Rep. Speranzo: 71% voting, 71 final, Rep. Spiliotis: 86% voting, 90 final.
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