Every session, legislators vote on hundreds of bills. This scorecard focuses on several core environmental priorities that tell the story of environmental leadership at the Colorado Capitol. In this scorecard you'll find clear, nonpartisan information on top environmental priorities and how each state legislator voted on bills impacting Colorado’s climate, lands, water and communities.
Find out how your elected officials vote, and see how their choices align with your environmental values. Then, write to your legislators to let them know you're paying attention to their environmental scores.
You Make Victories Possible
During the 2024 legislative session, Conservation Colorado members made their voices heard, sending over 5,000 emails, making nearly 300 calls and testifying dozens of times, urging legislators to support our priority conservation bills. Our members spoke loud and clear: all Coloradans deserve a healthy climate and communities.
Read our full 2024 legislative impact report here.
Your advocacy helped achieve these key victories:
Climate:
- Established new air pollution standards for the oil and gas industry
- Addressed transportation emissions and the housing crisis with landmark policies and funding to support transit, combat sprawl, promote housing affordability and reduce pollution
Healthy Communities:
- Expanded environmental justice programs and protections against the toxic impacts of cumulative pollution
- Prioritized cleaning up abandoned oil and gas wells in communities most impacted by pollution
Lands & water:
- Became the first state in the nation to pass legislation to protect our wetlands and streams – more than 60% of Colorado’s waters – after Trump’s Supreme Court revoked clean water protections that had been in place for five decades
- Passed legislation securing one of the largest investments in Colorado's parks and wildlife in over a decade
