This week the League of Conservations Voters released the 2011 National Environmental Scorecard. 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...

Even though the U.S. House has already taken over 100 anti-environment votes this year, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor proved in his recent memo to House Republicans that he's been busy this recess plotting a continuation of this pro-polluter agenda through the end of 2011. And...

As the results of the Iowa straw poll started to separate the potential presidential candidates from the hopeless ones, Governor Rick Perry (R-TX) announced his intentions to not only run for president, but to lead the pack of presidential hopefuls in extreme anti-environment rhetoric and vocal denial of settled climate...

This week the Iowa straw poll will begin to divide the pool of potential presidential candidates. Yet for those voters who care about climate action, the division has already begun.

While the words "climate" and "energy" seems to be on the lips of every presidential hopeful this election cycle, many...

This week, the House Republican leadership upped the ante on their already unprecedented assault on our nation's bedrock environmental laws. It is no exaggeration to call the Interior and Environment spending bill the single worst attack we have ever seen on our air, land, water and wildlife.

This spending bill...

Eighteen months from now, as members of Congress look back on the events that shaped the 2012 election results, many may find themselves examining the few fateful weeks this Spring when they began the political march off the plank and into the tank with Big Oil.

On April 15th,...

On Tuesday, the League of Conservation Voters took the extraordinary step of releasing a Continuing Resolution Special Edition National Environmental Scorecard, revealing member scores for environmental, public health, and energy votes taken on amendments to the House-passed spending bill. For 40 years, the National Environmental Scorecard issued by...

This week, the League of Conservations Voters (LCV), which works to turn environmental values into national priorities, released the 2010 National Environmental Scorecard. For 40 years, the National Environmental Scorecard issued by LCV has been the nationally accepted yardstick used to rate members of Congress on environmental, public...

Though in the past he's been an environmental advocate part of the time, newly crowned Chairman Fred Upton's actions in recent months clearly indicate that the legacy he plans to leave as Chair of the powerful Energy & Commerce committee is one that puts polluter interests ahead of the public...

It's really amazing what campaigning for and winning a title like Chairman can do to a 24-year veteran of the U.S. House of Representatives. Because the 2011 version of Rep. Fred Upton (MI-6) is totally unrecognizable to the Congressman whose environmental voting record once displayed thoughtfulness not commonly found among...

This week the Environmental Protection Agency celebrates its 40th anniversary and we commend the agency for four decades of tremendous work protecting the air we breathe, water we drink and the health of all Americans.

The EPA was born from enormous environmental tragedy -- the burning of the Cuyahoga...

There is no doubt that we have our work cut out for us. The current Senate has failed to act on comprehensive clean energy and climate legislation and we now know that the 112th Congress will be a very different landscape with an incoming class of members that is among...

As I've said before, we lost many friends on Election Day -- friends who stood up to the Big Oil companies and championed clean energy policies. And while corporate polluters and their lobbyists may claim this was a referendum on clean energy reform that was clearly not the...

We shouldn't sugarcoat it. We lost may good friends on Election Day -- friends who stood up to the Big Oil companies and championed clean energy policies. But in the one race where the words "global warming" were literally on the ballot, voters overwhelmingly voted for clean energy and the...

With corporate polluters having successfully blocked comprehensive energy and climate legislation in the U.S. Senate, it is more important than ever that we beat back this deceptive effort funded by Texas oil companies to kill California's clean energy economy.

We consider Proposition 23 the most important race in the country...

The failure of the U.S. Senate to act on a comprehensive climate change and clean energy bill before the August recess makes it highly unlikely that such legislation will pass this year, which only serves to underscore the importance of the make-up of the U.S. Senate following this November's midterm...

The League of Conservation Voters has launched an online campaign that highlights the rampant denial of settled climate science among many Republican Senate candidates running as challengers or in open seat races this election cycle. Check out the video featuring Sarah Palin as the host of "Tea Time with Sarah...

This past weekend marked the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. This catastrophic storm and its aftermath took more than 1,000 lives, displaced more than one million residents and wiped out hundreds of square miles of coastal land. Five years later, New Orleans is still recovering from the disaster, a recovery...

The corporate fat cats sitting around the board rooms of Big Oil's largest companies are likely having a good laugh this summer. Not only is the oil industry continuing to reap billions in profits amidst the nation's worst environmental disaster, but the Senate's efforts to pass comprehensive energy...

We are angry and disappointed. The battle must and will continue -- but it is time to shift our focus.

The U.S. Senate will not take up comprehensive clean energy and climate legislation prior to the August recess. Even more distressing, it's very unlikely the Senate will push for...