AUGUSTA, Maine — Maine Conservation Voters Tuesday released their 2015 Environmental Scorecard, which tracks the votes of each member of the 127th Maine Legislature on key pieces of environmental legislation.
This year's report tells the story of a Legislature at odds with Gov. Paul LePage's administration on issues of energy efficiency, voter-approved conservation bonds and timber harvesting.
Among those lawmakers recognized by the group were Sen. Roger Katz, an Augusta Republican; Sen. Catherine Breen, a Democrat from Cumberland and Rep. Sarah Gideon, a Democrat from Freeport.
Beth Ahearn, the group's political director, says lawmakers of all political stripes supported the conservation voters' core issues.
"Conservation is not a partisan issue and the Legislature demonstrated that this year, four of the five issues that we scored had significant bipartisan support and one of them was unanimous," Ahearn says. "This session was more about the Legislature versus the governor."
Maine Conservation Voters is an environmental advocacy group dedicated to building public support for conservation into new laws to protect Maine's air, land, water and wildlife.