February 26, 2025
Massachusetts Congressional Delegation Earns High Marks from League of Conservation Voters’ Environmental Scorecard
Today, the Environmental League of Massachusetts Action Fund released the Massachusetts delegation’s scores for the League of Conservation Voters’ 2024 National Environmental Scorecard, highlighting our state’s leaders’ work to protect our environment and build our clean energy future. Each of Massachusetts’ senators and representatives earned “A” grades, placing it amongst the highest-ranked congressional delegations in the country.
Massachusetts’ delegation remained dedicated to our collective values, voting against cuts to clean energy investments and a House agenda that catered to corporate polluters.
“Our congressional delegation demonstrates year after year that they are willing to stand up to protect our health and our environment,” said Casey Bowers, Executive Director of the ELM Action Fund, an LCV affiliate. “In the face of escalating federal challenges to climate action, their commitment to building a brighter clean energy future is critical.”
But we know the work is far from done. The future of our planet and our democracy are at stake, and our delegation is pushing to set our country on a path toward a green, just, thriving future. The full delegation’s scores for 2024 are:
Senator Elizabeth Warren: 100%
Senator Ed Markey: 100%
Representative Katherine Clark: 100%
Representative Richard Neal: 100%
Representative Jim McGovern: 100%
Representative Ayanna Pressley: 91%
Representative Jake Auchincloss: 97%
Representative Bill Keating: 94%
Representative Seth Moulton: 97%
Representative Lori Trahan: 94%
Representative Stephen Lynch: 91%
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.
“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.”
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 legislators’ 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 helped 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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