For Immediate Release:
Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025

Contact:
Lee Francis | Chief Program and Communications Officer
Virginia League of Conservation Voters
(804) 225-1902 | lfrancis@valcv.org

Both U.S. Senators, three Representatives earn perfect, 100% marks

RICHMOND – Today, the Virginia League of Conservation Voters released the Virginia delegation’s scores for the League of Conservation Voters’ 2024 National Environmental Scorecard, highlighting the voting records of our state’s members of Congress on pressing environmental, climate and democracy issues.

Since 1970, LCV’s Scorecard has been the primary yardstick for evaluating the environmental records of members of Congress. It is available for download here and online at scorecard.lcv.org.

The 2024 Scorecard shows that some of a majority of Virginia’s delegation stood up for our democracy and environmental protections when these issues were under attack. For the second year in a row, extreme members in the House of Representatives embraced chaos. They pushed messaging bills and radical amendments on government funding that were so harmful their own leadership pulled them on more than one occasion — resulting in the least productive Congress in recent history.

“In the face of an unprecedented barrage of attacks on our environment and our democracy most of Virginia’s congressional delegation did the right thing. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like these attacks are going to let up anytime soon. Now more than ever, we will need these members to continue to stand strong as Trump and his extreme allies try to gut our nation’s bedrock environmental laws and institutions,” said Michael Town, executive director of the Virginia League of Conservation Voters.

“2024 saw the most extreme members of the House Republicans again manufacturing wasteful, cruel chaos at the expense of the health and safety of our environment, our democracy, and our economy,” said LCV Senior Vice President of Government Affairs Tiernan Sittenfeld. “Unfortunately we must look at 2024’s mostly fruitless attempts to provide more giveaways to Big Oil and other polluters while leaving communities across the country less safe as a trial run for what Trump and his captured Congressional leadership will do in 2025.”

For the third year, the 2024 Scorecard highlights the leadership of the Tri-Caucus. Leadership of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC), Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), and Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) scored an average of 97% on the 2024 Scorecard. These champions in Congress led and supported many of the climate, conservation, environmental justice, and equitable democracy bills and initiatives in 2024, in addition to helping to educate constituents and connect communities to the transformational investments within the affordable clean energy plan.

This year, the 2024 Scorecard includes eight Senate votes, half of which were confirmations of qualified, diverse judges and other nominees and half were attacks on environmental protections. In the House, LCV scored 33 votes, 14 of which were poison pill policy amendments on government funding bills or the extreme underlying bills themselves, two of which were using or further weaponizing the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to block environmental safeguards, and the rest undermined programs and laws that advance a safe climate, environment, and democracy.

The full delegation’s scores for 2024 are:

U.S. Senate

 

U.S. House of Representatives

LCV has published a National Environmental Scorecard every Congress since 1970. The Scorecard represents the consensus of experts from more than 20 respected environmental and conservation organizations who selected the key votes on which members of Congress should be scored. LCV scores votes on the most important issues of the year, including energy, climate change, environmental justice, public health, public lands and wildlife conservation, democracy, and spending for environmental programs. The votes included in the Scorecard presented members of Congress with a real choice and help distinguish which legislators are working for environmental protection. More information on individual votes and the Scorecard archive can be found at scorecard.lcv.org.

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