Senate-hopeful
Representative Tom Udall and Senator Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico’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 Mexico.
Environment
New Mexico is distributing the individual Congressional scorecards to tens of
thousands of households in New
Mexico as part of its door-to-door campaign to build awareness around the
country’s most pressing environmental issues, like passing legislation in
Congress requiring a minimum amount of electricity come from clean, renewable
energy sources, creating a national cap and trade program and extending
renewable energy and energy efficiency tax incentives to growing renewable
businesses in New Mexico.
“Representative
Udall and Senator Bingaman have again and again put the environment ahead of
special interests. In the 110th Congress they 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 Mexico Advocate Lauren Ketcham. “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.”
“We
applaud Representative Udall and Senator Bingaman for being heroes for the environment,” said Ketcham.
With the help of these congressmen, the 110th Congress
is making progress in several key areas.
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.
“We urge Senator Domenici (30%), Representative Wilson (15%) and Representative
Pearce (0%) to join with Representative Udall and
Senator Bingaman 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 Ketcham.
