RICHMOND – Today, the Virginia League of Conservation Voters released its 2026 Conservation Scorecard, which ranks all 140 members of the legislature based on their votes on key environmental legislation during this year’s General Assembly session, alongside a new online scorecard platform making it easier for Virginians to access their lawmakers’ environmental records.
The full 2026 Scorecard can be viewed and downloaded Aquí.
While last year saw us award 72 lawmakers for voting alongside our position 100% of the time, this year we recognize none, the first time in our organization’s history we do not have a list of Legislative Heroes due to their failure to deliver serious solutions to the Commonwealth’s most pressing environmental challenge: data centers.
This led Virginia LCV to score the State Budget in its entirety, as the final budget deal reached in late June failed to require data centers to do anything to clean up their act or pay their fair share, and included provisions fast-tracking these harmful facilities in low-income and rural communities – those least equipped to fight the large, wealthy corporations pushing these projects.
“Virginians are tired of watching the richest companies on earth get their way time and time again, while they struggle with higher electric bills, noise, and pollution. The time for ignoring these environmental impacts is over – lawmakers need to deliver solutions to Virginia’s data center problem,” said Michael Town, executive director of the Virginia League of Conservation Voters. “While much was accomplished this year to advance environmental priorities – and we are grateful – this legislative session will be remembered for what didn’t get done. There’s still time to get this issue right, and we will be looking to the legislature to deliver in 2027.”
This year’s Legislative Leaders scored between 75 and 99% and include the following 23 Senators and 65 Delegates:
- Senadora Lashrecse Aird
- Senador Lamont Bagby
- Senator Elizabeth Bennett-Parker
- Senadora Jennifer Boysko
- Senadora Jennifer Carroll Foy
- Senador Creigh Deeds
- Senador Adam Ebbin
- Senadora Barbara Favola
- Senadora Ghazala Hashmi
- Senator Michael Jones
- Senadora Mamie Locke
- Senadora Louise Lucas
- Senador Dave Marsden
- Senador Jeremy McPike
- Senadora Stella Pekarsky
- Senadora Russet Perry
- Senadora Danica Roem
- Senador Aaron Rouse
- Senador Saddam Salim
- Senador Kannan Srinivasan
- Líder de la Mayoría del Senado Scott Surovell
- Senador Schuyler VanValkenburg
- Senadora Angelia Williams Graves
- Delegate Jessica Anderson
- Delegada Bonita Anthony
- Delegado Alex Askew
- Delegate Gretchen Bulova
- Delegada Katrina Callsen
- Delegate Kasey Carnegie
- Delegada Betsy Carr
- Delegate Stacey Carroll
- Delegado Nadarius Clark
- Delegada Laura Jane Cohen
- Diputado Joshua Cole
- Delegate Nicole Cole
- Delegada Kelly Convirs-Fowler
- Delegada Rae Cousins
- Delegada Karrie Delaney
- Delegate Lindsey Dougherty
- Delegate Mark Downey
- Delegado Michael Feggans
- Delegate Lily Franklin
- Delegate Margaret Franklin
- Delegada Debra Gardner
- Delegada Jackie Glass
- Delegate Elizabeth Guzman
- Diputado Cliff Hayes
- Delegado Dan Helmer
- Delegada Rozia Henson
- Delegado Phil Hernandez
- Delegada Charniele Herring
- Delegado Patrick Hope
- Delegada Karen Keys-Gamara
- Delegado Paul Krizek
- Delegada Amy Laufer
- Delegar Leo LeVere Bolling
- Delegado Alfonso López
- Delegada Michelle Maldonado
- Delegado Marty Martinez
- Delegate John McAuliff
- Delegada Adele McClure
- Delegate Garrett McGuire
- Delegate Kirk McPike
- Delegada Delores McQuinn
- Delegate Leslie Mehta
- Delegate May Nivar
- Delegate Kimberly Pope Adams
- Delegar Cia Price
- Delegado Sam Rasoul
- Delegada Atoosa Reaser
- Delegado David Reid
- Delegate Andrew Rice
- Delegate Charlie Schmidt
- Presidente de la Cámara de Representantes Don Scott
- Delegada Holly Siebold
- Delegada Briana Sewell
- Delegada Irene Shin
- Delegado Mark Simon
- Delegada Shelly Simonds
- Delegado JJ Singh
- Delegado Rip Sullivan
- Delegado Josh Thomas
- Delegate Virgil Thonton
- Delegado Luke Torian
- Delegada Kathy Tran
- Delegada Jeion Ward
- Delegada Vivian Watts
- Delegado Rodney Willett
Virginia LCV also recognized six lawmakers for their individual leadership this year on different environmental or democracy issues. These included Senator Mamie Locke (D-Hampton), Senator Richard Stuart (R-Westmoreland), Senator Russet Perry (D-Loudoun), and Delegates Betsy Carr (D-Richmond), Alfonso Lopez (D-Alexandria) and Rip Sullivan (D-Fairfax).