A week ago today, Environment Washington, a state-based, citizen funded environmental advocacy group released its annual scorecard on Washington’s Congressional delegation, documenting their environmental votes over the last year and a half.  In a release by Environment Washington, they applauded Senator's Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray along with Reps. Jay Inslee, Brian Baird, Rick Larsen, and Norman Dicks for voting for the environment 100% of the time in the past year and a half. 

“These six congressional delegates have consistently voted to put the environment ahead of special interests. In the past year and a half they successfully fought to invest an unprecedented $80 billion in clean energy and to protect more than two million acres of wilderness,” said Heather Shute, environmental advocate at Environment Washington. “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."

You can view the report from Environment Washington HERE.  And attention Eastern Washington representatives, class is in session - you are being graded.  And as Shute concluded in the release, it's time to join the above champions 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.

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