BATON ROUGE – The GreenARMY released its scorecard for the 2014 Louisiana Legislative session – a scorecard that has been developed in an effort to let the public know how State Representatives and Senators voted on environmental interests. The selected bills and amendments represent a wide range of state environmental issues and reflect the environmental voting records of the legislators.
Like past legislative sessions, this year's session had its share of good and bad bills, supporters and opponents, surprises and disappointments, GreenARMY members and organizations said.
The GreenARMY reports the bills introduced this past session addressed the issues of water withdrawal from the Southern Hills aquifer, groundwater cleanup, air monitoring, Bayou Corne, salt mining in Lake Peigneur and abandoned oil well sites. They say, on the positive side, there was overwhelming support in both houses for the bills addressing Lake Peigneur and Bayou Corne, but, on the negative side, there were a slew of bills intended to stop the lawsuit filed by the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East.
The Scorecard also highlights the "GreenTEAM" which consist of twelve Representatives and seven Senators with the highest scores – an indication of their consistent support for a safer environment. These leaders made the GreenARMY's victories possible, members say.
The GreenARMY says they are a statewide coalition of organizations, civic groups and individuals fighting to preserve Louisiana's culture and environment and champion environmental campaigns that fall under the umbrella of clean air, clean water, clean land and healthy food.
