MADISON – Today, Wisconsin Conservation Voters released the Wisconsin delegation’s scores for its national affiliate League of Conservation Voters’ 2025 National Environmental Scorecard. It highlights how our state’s leaders scored on a record number of votes across both chambers.
The 2025 Scorecard exemplifies the stark contrast between Democrats and Republicans in Congress. Republicans repeatedly chose loyalty to the Trump administration and big polluters over making life more affordable, safer, and healthier for their own constituents. The result has been threats to voting rights, higher energy costs for working families, lost jobs and economic opportunities, the selling tens of millions of acres of public lands and waters to big polluters, fewer clean air and water safeguards, a diminished democracy, and increased pollution.
“The contrast for Wisconsinites could not be clearer,” said WCV Executive Director Kerry Schumann. “We know Sen. Tammy Baldwin and Reps. Mark Pocan and Gwen Moore, are working tirelessly against efforts to raise costs, kill clean energy jobs, and undermine voting rights. Unfortunately, Sen. Ron Johnson and Reps. Bryan Steil, Derrick Van Orden, Scott Fitzgerald, Glenn Grothman, Tom Tiffany, and Tony Wied continue to use their majority to cater to big polluters and Trump’s agenda over their own constituents.”
“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 percent 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.”
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The full delegation’s scores for 2025 are:
Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D) – 97 percent
Sen. Ron Johnson (R) – 0 percent
Rep. Mark Pocan (D) – 100 percent
Rep. Gwen Moore (D) – 94 percent
Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R) – 6 percent
Rep. Bryan (R) Steil – 0 percent
Rep. Scott Fitzgerald (R) – 0 percent
Rep. Glenn Grothman (R) – 0 percent
Rep. Tom Tiffany (R) – 0 percent
Rep. Tony Wied (R) – 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
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
- For a combined record number of 66 votes in the annual Scorecard undermining the programs and laws that advance a safe climate, environment, and democracy.