Sen. Landrieu's Environmental Record Called Out

Last year, Landrieu joined the League of Conservation Voters' Dirty Dozen List as the "worst Democrat in the Senate on environmental issues." Landrieu's record depicts an energy industry rainmaker who uses spinmeister talents to obstruct real climate change reform in order to benefit the energy industry. Landrieu's answer for climate change is to increase offshore drilling by the carrot of diverting oil royalties to the states.  This carrot is a chameleon: One year Landrieu successfully called it Katrina aid, now it is a financial miracle for the economic crises faced by coastal states. The reality is that the carrot is her bailout plan for the oil and gas industry, and environmental groups fear it may become part of the Senate's climate change bill. Offshore drilling would not only continue the fossil fuel pollution that causes climate change, but compound the existing climate change impacts suffered by our oceans.

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