League of Conservation Voters 2025 National Scorecard Shows Vast Majority of NC Delegation Voted for Big Polluters’ Agenda
RALEIGH, N.C. — Today, the North Carolina League of Conservation Voters (NCLCV) released the scores for NC Congressional members in the League of Conservation Voters’ 2025 National Environmental Scorecard. The vast majority of NC’s delegation repeatedly chose loyalty to the Trump administration and Big Polluters over making life more affordable, safer, and healthier for their own constituents.
While three members – Rep. Deborah Ross, Rep. Valerie Foushee and Rep. Alma Adams – received perfect scores, an overwhelming majority of lawmakers voted to raise energy costs for working families, revoke clean air and water safeguards, and allow bad actors to release more pollution in our communities.
“We are deeply disappointed in most of our lawmakers’ failure to fight for North Carolinians and the future of our state,” said Carrie Clark, executive director of NCLCV. “We need more leaders who will stand up against out-of-control energy costs and fight for a safe and healthy place to live, rather than catering to Big Polluters, billionaires, and power-hungry politicians. While North Carolinians struggle to make ends meet, federal and state lawmakers continue to fail to provide emergency recovery funds to communities still suffering from Hurricane Helene’s devastation. On the other end of the spectrum, three members of our delegation demonstrated the leadership we need as strong environmental champions; and we thank them for their commitment to North Carolinian families and communities.”
“We’ve never seen a Congressional majority so willfully abandon its responsibilities to protect their own constituents and the Constitution and instead relentlessly attack the health and safety of our communities, our environment, and our right to a free and fair democracy,” said LCV Senior Vice President for Government Affairs Sara Chieffo. “Those members of Congress who voted for the Big Ugly Bill killed clean energy incentives at a time when energy demand is at all-time highs and energy prices are rising higher than ever. It’s no surprise that while this Congress has been doing the bidding of President Trump and Big Polluters, utility costs rose 13% nationwide last year. We commend the members of Congress who forced votes to protect U.S.-made clean energy, our treasured public lands, critical federal agency funding, and our rights — pushing back on extreme Republican efforts to make it harder for people to vote and hand even more power to Trump.”
The full delegation’s scores for 2025 are:
Senator Budd – 3 percent
Senator Tillis – 9 percent
Representative Davis – 64 percent
Representative Ross – 100 percent
Representative Murphy – 0 percent
Representative Foushee – 100 percent
Representative Foxx – 0 percent
Representative McDowell – 0 percent
Representative Rouzer – 0 percent
Representative Harris – 0 percent
Representative Hudson – 0 percent
Representative Harrigan – 0 percent
Representative Edwards – 3 percent
Representative Adams – 100 percent
Representative Knott – 0 percent
Representative Moore – 0 percent
The 2025 Scorecard scored 34 Senate votes including:
- 11 amendments showing where members stood on affordable clean energy, manufacturing jobs, public lands, and federal workers on the Big Ugly Bill and its final passage (which LCV double scored)
- 7 nominees picked solely for their loyalty to Trump and fossil fuels
- 13 Congressional Review Act (CRA) attacks on clean air and water, wildlife, and public lands
The 2025 Scorecard also scored 32 House votes including:
- 8 bills driving up energy costs by blocking clean energy or giving handouts to dirty energy and the final passage of the Big Ugly Bill (which LCV double scored)
- 4 bills undermining public input on decisions affecting our environment and communities
the SAVE Act to make voter registration more onerous - The same 13 Congressional Review Act (CRA) attacks on clean air and water, wildlife, and public lands scored on the Senate side
LCV has published a National Environmental Scorecard every Congress since 1970. The Scorecard represents the consensus of experts from more than 20 respected environmental and conservation organizations who selected the key votes on which members of Congress should be scored. LCV scores votes on the most important issues of the year, including energy, climate change, environmental justice, public health, public lands and wildlife conservation, democracy, and spending for environmental programs. The votes included in the Scorecard presented members of Congress with a real choice and helped distinguish which legislators are working for environmental protection. More information on individual votes and the Scorecard archive can be found at lcv.org/2025-scorecard.
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