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Holding our lawmakers accountable is the cornerstone of our work, and ensuring YOU know how your lawmakers voted is a key part of that. That’s why we’re proud to release our 2021-2022 Pennsylvania Environmental Scorecard! 

Our scorecard grades members of the Pennsylvania House and Senate on how often they voted for, or against, the environment during the last legislative session. 

This session, the House and Senate passed a whopping 10 pro-polluter bills, and 95 lawmakers scored 0% by voting against the environment and democracy every chance they got. Environmental champions in the legislature and the Governor’s veto pen blocked most of these bills, but the sheer number and frequency of these attacks is alarming.

Explore our Scorecard and see if your legislators are putting you and your community – or major corporations and polluters – first.

Scores carry the most weight when Pennsylvanians know how their legislators voted: share our scorecard on Facebook and Twitter, or forward this email to your friends and family so they can hold their elected officials accountable.

Over the past decade, our scorecard has tracked how Harrisburg has become more divisive, more dysfunctional, and more concerned with political pandering than protecting our communities. 

We can see this trend in the ever widening gap between Republican and Democratic legislators’ scores: this year the average score for Republican legislators was 5.6% compared to the average for Democrats of 91.7%. 

Still, there were some bright spots thanks to the Wolf administration:  

• Pennsylvania is finally poised to join the multi-state Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative that will reduce carbon pollution and invest in communities.
• We moved forward towards creating the first regulation to limit PFAS contamination in water and create standards to reduce methane pollution from the fossil fuel industry. 

Plus we saw what’s possible when, for once, legislators worked across the aisle and prioritized the environment and public health: 

• This year’s state budget included almost $750 million to reduce maintenance backlogs in our state parks, preserve farmland, improve the quality of our rivers, and clean up abandoned mines.
• The budget also included funding for a new Whole-Home Repairs Program that will lower energy costs for working families and seniors — particularly in communities of color and low-income communities — while helping curb climate pollution and create jobs.
• Every Senator but one voted to approve a bill to ensure all Pennsylvania children are tested for lead poisoning. However, House leadership has failed to bring the bill up for a vote despite its broad, bipartisan support. 

We need more legislators to stand up for the water we drink, the air we breathe, and the lands we love. But they’ll only support sound environmental policies if they know you’re paying attention and will hold them accountable.

See how your lawmakers voted and help spread the word on Facebook, Twitter, or by emailing our scorecard to your friends and family in Pennsylvania. 

Thanks for all that you do to protect our water, air, and open spaces.

Katie Blume
Political Director
Conservation Voters of PA

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