LCV Launches "Big Oil Blunt" Website
The League of Conservation Voters named Roy Blunt to their "Dirty Dozen" list and launched BigOilBlunt.com today to call attention to his "abysmal" lifetime LCV environmental score. From the website:
How did Big Oil Blunt earn this dubious distinction?
- By voting against 35,000 clean energy jobs for Missouri… three times (twice in committee and once the House floor).
- By taking more than $1 million in campaign cash from Big Oil and energy special interests.
- By voting to maintain tax breaks and subsidies for polluting corporations while Missourians paid record prices at the pump.
- By voting against a Renewable Electricity Standard in 2007 despite broad public support for such a standard. (In fact, the next year, Missouri voters overwhelmingly approved a statewide RES at the polls).
- By earning a flat 0% on LCV’s National Environmental Scorecard (and earning 100% on Big Oil’s report card).
The full "Dirty Dozen" list hasn't been announced yet -- only Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-AR), former Congressmen Steve Pearce (R-NM) and Richard Pombo (R-CA) have been named so far.
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