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Who Votes Dirty? is a project of NRDC Action Fund.
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Polluter Contribution Figures
Contribution numbers are provided by the Center for Responsive Politics (CRP) and are based on contributions from Oil & Gas, Electric Utilities and Coal Mining sectors, as reported to the Federal Election Commission. Please note that reported contributions may have changed since last obtained from CRP.
Air Quality Issues in Congressional Districts and States
EPA’s list of areas that fail to meet standards for ozone and soot were obtained from http://www.epa.gov/oar/oaqps/greenbk/gis_download.html. EPA’s GIS files were overlaid against Congressional District (CD) geospatial data which was downloaded from the U.S. Census bureau GIS data portal (website http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/geo/shapefiles2011/main). These data were viewed and analyzed within ESRI’s GIS software, ArcMap 10.0. NRDC Action Fund computed the intersection of the MSA with CD, creating a new GIS data layer mapping the boundaries of the overlapping areas, and combining information about the common MSA and CD for those areas. NRDC Action Fund computed the percent of a given CD within a specific MSA. Those states and Congressional Districts with 20% or more land area overlap with areas failing to meet air quality standards are labeled as such in the profiles on this website and in the spreadsheet available through it.
Voting Records
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives. See below for additional details.
HOUSE:
H.R. 910 (car pollution stds): roll call 249 (2011)
H.R. 2401 (TRAIN): roll call 741 (2011)
H.R. 2401 HA 799 (Whitfield amendment): roll call 737 (2011)
H.R. 2401 HA 800 (Latta amendment): roll call 738 (2011)
H.R. 2681 (cement rule delay): roll call 764 (2011)
H.R. 2250 (boiler delay): roll call 791 (2011)
H.R. 1633 (farm dust): roll call 912 (2011)
H.R. 1 (continuing approps): roll call 147 (2011)
H.R. 1 HA 88 (Carter amendment A078): roll call 86 (2011)
H.R. HA 164 (Noem amendment A154): roll call 140 (2011)
H.R. 1 HA 101 (Poe amendment A091): roll call 96 (2011)
H.R. 4480 (Strategic Energy Production Act): roll call 410 (2012)
H.R. 4480 HA (Green amendment): roll call 395 (2012)
SENATE:
S. J. Res. 27 (Paul CSAPR CRA): vote #201, 1st session
S. J. Res. 37 (Inhofe MATS CRA): vote #139, 2nd session