league of conservation voters

The rise of left-leaning news sites has inspired conservative-backed online investigative reporting.

As an addendum to Suemedha’s post, I’ll fill you in on the League of Conservation Voters’ assessment of Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain on environmental issues.
McCain was one of just two senators to receive a “zero” rating for 2007-2008, after getting a 41 percent score in 2005-2006. Obama received a rating of 46 percent [...]

The League of Conservation Voters today released its 2008 National Environmental Scorecard, which rates members of Congress on energy and environmental issues.
Overall, says the group’s president Gene Karpinski in a press release, “in 2008, Congress went in the wrong direction” — that is, away from reducing our country’s dependence on oil.