League of Conservation Voters gives Obama highest ranking of all candidates

[jefferson_dem]

Here are their rankings, based on public record and profiles submitted to LCV:

> Obama - 96
> Kucinich - 92
> Clinton - 90
> Biden - 84
> Richardson -82
> Dodd - 77
> Edwards - 59
> Paul - 30
> McCain - 26
> Brownback - 14
> Thompson - 12
> Tancredo -11
> Hunter - 9

Full profiles and scorecards for each candidate are at their website - http://presidentialprofiles2008.org/

[Adelante]

1. Somebody's bound to ask

Edwards voted against controls on mountain-top removal mining. He voted for nuclear waste storage at Yucca Mountain, against fuel-efficiency standards for pickup trucks, favored industrial farm subsidies, and was against restricting pesticide use in public parks. In addition, he may have missed several votes as he started his first run for president halfway through his senate term.

However, he made something of a turnaround when he ran in 2004 and the environmental community seemed to have let bygones be bygones, especially after he joined Kerry's ticket. Currently, he is under criticism for his coal plan, but that doesn't make him any different than the other top two candidates. He's buying something like ten times more in carbon offsets than say Clinton, which some people like to see as a good thing and others do not. Aside from his personal life choices bringing criticism, that's about it, I think.

I don't see he has more of a problem at this time than the other candidates, though I think when it comes to environmental love, he will always have his critics somewhere.




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