Green Carney

PennEnvironment, an environmental advocacy group based out of Philadelphia, released its congressional scorecard on environmental issues.

Chris Carney was one of five Pennsylvania politicians to receive a perfect score of 100%. The other politicians included Rep. Joe Sestak (D-7th), Rep. Pat Murphy (D-8th), Jason Altmire (D-4th) and Senator Bob Casey.

The average score in the state was 66 percent and the nationwide average was 58 percent.

Joe Sestak's Republican opponent, Craig Williams, said PennEnvironment's report highlighted the environmental extremism in Sestak's voting record. Williams said, "His support for extreme environmental policies has resulted in higher gas and food prices by locking our domestic energy resources away from us. As a result of these policies, we allow other countries to control our energy and, therefore, our economy."

Mark Harris of Chris Hackett's campaign has echoed a similar sentiment against Carney. Last month Harris said, "Chris Carney has a choice. He can support three commonsense solutions that will increase domestic energy or he can stand with the radical special interests in his own party against the citizens of Northeastern and Central Pennsylvania. So far he’s shown that he cares more about politics than relief at the pump."