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 here.
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:
- Senator Lashrecse Aird
- Senator Lamont Bagby
- Senator Elizabeth Bennett-Parker
- Senator Jennifer Boysko
- Senator Jennifer Carroll Foy
- Senator Creigh Deeds
- Senator Adam Ebbin
- Senator Barbara Favola
- Senator Ghazala Hashmi
- Senator Michael Jones
- Senator Mamie Locke
- Senator Louise Lucas
- Senator Dave Marsden
- Senator Jeremy McPike
- Senator Stella Pekarsky
- Senator Russet Perry
- Senator Danica Roem
- Senator Aaron Rouse
- Senator Saddam Salim
- Senator Kannan Srinivasan
- Senate Majority Leader Scott Surovell
- Senator Schuyler VanValkenburg
- Senator Angelia Williams Graves
- Delegate Jessica Anderson
- Delegate Bonita Anthony
- Delegate Alex Askew
- Delegate Gretchen Bulova
- Delegate Katrina Callsen
- Delegate Kasey Carnegie
- Delegate Betsy Carr
- Delegate Stacey Carroll
- Delegate Nadarius Clark
- Delegate Laura Jane Cohen
- Delegate Joshua Cole
- Delegate Nicole Cole
- Delegate Kelly Convirs-Fowler
- Delegate Rae Cousins
- Delegate Karrie Delaney
- Delegate Lindsey Dougherty
- Delegate Mark Downey
- Delegate Michael Feggans
- Delegate Lily Franklin
- Delegate Margaret Franklin
- Delegate Debra Gardner
- Delegate Jackie Glass
- Delegate Elizabeth Guzman
- Delegate Cliff Hayes
- Delegate Dan Helmer
- Delegate Rozia Henson
- Delegate Phil Hernandez
- Delegate Charniele Herring
- Delegate Patrick Hope
- Delegate Karen Keys-Gamara
- Delegate Paul Krizek
- Delegate Amy Laufer
- Delegate Destiny LeVere Bolling
- Delegate Alfonso Lopez
- Delegate Michelle Maldonado
- Delegate Marty Martinez
- Delegate John McAuliff
- Delegate Adele McClure
- Delegate Garrett McGuire
- Delegate Kirk McPike
- Delegate Delores McQuinn
- Delegate Leslie Mehta
- Delegate May Nivar
- Delegate Kimberly Pope Adams
- Delegate Cia Price
- Delegate Sam Rasoul
- Delegate Atoosa Reaser
- Delegate David Reid
- Delegate Andrew Rice
- Delegate Charlie Schmidt
- House Speaker Don Scott
- Delegate Holly Siebold
- Delegate Briana Sewell
- Delegate Irene Shin
- Delegate Mark Simon
- Delegate Shelly Simonds
- Delegate JJ Singh
- Delegate Rip Sullivan
- Delegate Josh Thomas
- Delegate Virgil Thonton
- Delegate Luke Torian
- Delegate Kathy Tran
- Delegate Jeion Ward
- Delegate Vivian Watts
- Delegate 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).