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2012 California Environmental Scorecard
Full Scorecard »39th Annual Guide to Environmental Legislation and Votes for the 2012 Legislative Year
For nearly four decades, CLCV has rated each member of the California Legislature on key environmental votes of the session in the California Environmental Scorecard.
Now available: The full 2012 California Environmental Scorecard (download PDF). Printed copies of the Scorecard were mailed to current CLCV members in April 2013.
Learn the scores using our handy interactive Scorecard tool below, which allows you to search by lawmaker, bill and issue area. Then, take action by telling your elected representatives whether or not you approve of their performance on the environment!
How did your elected official vote?
Year in Review
2012 was the second year of California’s two-year legislative session, as well as the final year for state Senate and Assembly districts drawn a decade ago to protect then-incumbent legislators. Amidst the session’s unfinished business, the state Capitol was full of lawmakers about to be thrown into redistricting chaos. Meanwhile, the perennially iconoclastic Governor Jerry Brown defied easy categorization in 2012. For the most part, he championed renewable energy and environmental protection; in particular, Governor Brown has acted decisively to address climate change by aggressively implementing the state’s renewable energy standard However, he welcomed exemptions and revisions to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), California’s bedrock environmental law.
Against this backdrop, CLCV entered the 2012 legislative session with a steadfast commitment to five top legislative priorities that held true through the year... READ MORE >
Snapshot of the Numbers
| Scorecard | 2011 | 2012 |
|---|---|---|
| Average of all Assemblymembers | 67% | 58% |
| Average Assembly Democrat Score | 92% | 84% |
| Average Assembly Republican Score | 19% | 7% |
|
Perfect 100s (Atkins, Beall, Blumenfield, Brownley, Butler, Feuer, Hill, Huffman, B. Lowenthal, Monning, Skinner) |
14 | 11 |
| Average of all Senators | 61% | 52% |
| Average Senate Democrat Score | 86% | 82% |
| Average Senate Republican Score | 18% | 3% |
|
Perfect 100s (Corbett, Evans, Hancock, Leno, Wolk) |
6 | 5 |
| Governor Jerry Brown | 83% | 75% |
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2018 California Environmental Scorecard
New for the 2018 legislative session: The 45th annual California Environmental Scorecard rates elected officials on 2018, another successful year for the environment in spite of heavy opposition from polluting industry.
Find out how your legislators did in 2018 in CLCV's California Environmental Scorecard.