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Environmentalists Pick Campaign 'Targets'

April 28, 2008 3:56 PM

Science correspondent Ned Potter blogs:

Campaign_camp_080428_main For fifteen years, there were few Congressmen more reviled by major environmental groups than Richard Pombo, a California Republican who opposed provisions of the Endangered Species Act and other federal laws.  The League of Conservation Voters gave him a lifetime "score" on environmental issues of 7%.

In 2006, they say, they got him voted out of office -- and his successor, Democratic Rep. Jerry McNerney, scored 90% last year in his votes on environmental issues.

Now it's 2008, and the environmental groups have new "targets" (their word) in Congress. They say their main goal is for the Senate to be "receptive to change" (read: have a veto-proof majority of 60) if, as they advocate, there is national legislation to combat climate change. 

They say they are backing three Senate hopefuls in particular.

Continue reading on Ned's Science and Society blog.

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