The new Virginia League of Conservation Voters scorecard doesn’t just grade the legislators (and overwhelmingly, Dems get superb scores while Republicans get abysmal ones when it comes to caring about our environment), it also scores Gov. Glenn Youngkin. And the results are NOT pretty, to put it mildly. Check it out:
In his first few months on the job, Governor Glenn Youngkin (R) has done little to advance environmental protection, focusing instead on rolling back important environmental safeguards, while appointing individuals with deep ties to the fossil fuel industry to his administration and to important regulatory posts.
Furthermore, Gov. Youngkin has shown little interest in working with the legislature to find common ground; instead he’s proven to be incredibly uncollaborative, even with members of his own party, and used the bully pulpit of his office to pick political fights, killing bipartisan legislation as retribution to the bills’ patrons, while ignoring the actual policy considerations.
With three and a half years left in his term, we sincerely hope better days are ahead. However, Gov. Youngkin’s hostility to sound environmental policy and his lack of leadership in just a short several months has earned him a grade of “F” in our first rankings of this Administration.
For more detail on Youngkin’s abysmal, appalling environmental record so far, click here.
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