Health, Safety & the Environment

The National League of Conservation Voters (LCV) Action Fund, which works to elect candidates who will implement sound environmental policies, today announced its endorsement of Richard Blumenthal for U.S. Senate.  Connecticut’s own League of Conservation Voters seconded that endorsement with one of its own.   

“LCV Action Fund is proud to endorse Richard Blumenthal for U.S. Senate because he understands that the policies needed to grow Connecticut’s economy and keep America’s competitive edge are the same policies that will reduce our dependence on foreign oil and curb harmful carbon pollution,” said LCV Action Fund President Gene Karpinski. “We are confident that as Senator, Richard Blumenthal will work to enact common-sense energy policies that create jobs in Connecticut while ensuring that America leads the 21st century’s clean energy economy.”   

Blumenthal supports comprehensive clean energy and climate legislation to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and create new energy jobs.  Throughout his tenure as Connecticut Attorney General, Blumenthal has worked to support state legislation that invests in renewable energy to help create jobs and reduce carbon pollution. Blumenthal’s efforts as Connecticut’s Attorney General on behalf of environmental causes, including joining bipartisan fights to block controversial energy projects on the Long Island Sound, reflect his commitment to environmental protections and investments in job-creating clean energy. In January 2010, Blumenthal joined 15 other attorneys general in support of defending the EPA in their efforts to begin regulation of dangerous carbon pollution. 

In stark contrast, Blumenthal is running against Linda McMahon, the wrestling mogul, who has said she would consider voting to eliminate the Environmental Protection Agency, which would threaten to undermine fifty years of regulation that has improved our water and our air. .She has also called the sound and settled science of global warming “potentially questionable”, which makes her downright scary!  Rarely have Connecticut voters been presented with such starkly different mindsets concerning our basic right to enjoy a healthy environment!