Mark Robinson Listed at the Top of LCV’s “Dirty Dozen”
Sitting NC Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, the 2024 Republican nominee for governor, tops the new “Dirty Dozen in the States” list just released by the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) Victory Fund and its state affiliates. The list highlights 12 of the worst candidates in the nation at the state and local level. These candidates have consistently sided against the environment and a healthy democracy, and are running in contests prioritized by state group members of the Conservation Voter Movement.
Robinson was nominated for this list of dishonor by the NC League of Conservation Voters (NCLCV). NCLCV has reported extensively on Robinson’s climate denialism. As recently as July, during a string of 13 straight months of new global average temperature highs, Robinson continued to deny that climate change is real. “We have now allowed those folks to dictate what we do based on pseudoscience, junk science that has not proven a single solitary thing,” he said. “These people that are at the college telling your young people that it’s the climate change is gonna kill us all … these people, I’m gonna say it right now, they are liars. Liars.”
Additionally, Robinson has called for the removal of science from elementary school and called climate change “junk science.”
A Clear, Important Choice
Robinson has made it clear he will side with polluters, rather than standing up to protect clean water and clean air. Instead, he wants to cut regulations even further and threatened to “keep the climate change, the climate change cabal out of this state and if they are in a state, keeping them in chains.” To further entrench himself with Big Oil, and despite his most recent scandal, Robinson received the endorsement of a large oil and gas group last week.
Alternatively, NCLCV has strongly endorsed Robinson’s opponent, Josh Stein, for Governor. “In the race for the next Governor of North Carolina, Attorney General Josh Stein is the candidate who has a long record of fighting for the people of our state to enjoy clean air and water, a clean energy future, and a healthy democracy. We know he will continue to work tirelessly to protect us and our quality of life and invest in a clean, renewable energy economy,” said Dan Crawford, NCLCV’s director of governmental relations.
