This scorecard highlights some of the most significant – and troubling – environmental actions taken by our state government in 2024 and 2025. To see how your legislators scored, and to learn more about the 2025 bills and votes, see the full 2024-2025 Scorecard below.
For a more in depth look into 2024 bills and votes, see the 2024 Scorecard.
Yet again, Duke Energy has used the General Assembly as a way to make more money, crippling the North Carolina Carbon Plan, costing North Carolinians billions of dollars in the process.
If you can’t win, change the rules. This is the motto of anti-environmentalists who lost the gubernatorial race to Josh Stein. Since then, Republicans have abused their power in the General Assembly to strip power away from the executive branch, and voters are paying the consequences.
The North Carolina General Assembly once again failed to regulate per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) – cancer-causing chemicals – despite bipartisan support and clear scientific evidence of their dangerous prevalence in our environment. Their neglect has real-life consequences.
Each year we identify some of the biggest allies and adversaries to environmental and democracy work in North Carolina. In 2025, three adversaries and three allies really stood out. Read about the legislators fighting for and against environmental protections.
Governor Stein is off to a strong start in his first term as Governor. With his legislative actions and statements, Stein has fought for our environment and our democracy.
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