{"id":506,"date":"2018-03-01T15:18:57","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T20:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/conservation\/?p=506"},"modified":"2018-03-01T15:18:57","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T20:18:57","slug":"local-congressmen-score-zero-on-environmental-scorecard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/?p=506","title":{"rendered":"Local Congressmen Score Zero On Environmental Scorecard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Reps. Dennis Ross and Tom Rooney, each of whom represent parts of Polk and surrounding counties, scored zero in the League of Conservation Voters&#8217; annual evaluation of 35 key votes on topics including air and water pollution regulation, support for the Environmental Protection Agency programs, public health, wildlife protection and related topics.\n<\/p>\n<p>Ross is seeking re-election this year. Rooney recently announced he is not seeking another term.\n<\/p>\n<p>For details on the votes and the LCV&#8217;s scoring and analysis, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/scorecard.lcv.org\/sites\/scorecard.lcv.org\/files\/LCV_Scorecard-2017-Full.pdf\">this link.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Reps. Dennis Ross and Tom Rooney, each of whom represent parts of Polk and surrounding counties, scored zero in the League of Conservation Voters&#8217; annual evaluation of 35 key votes on topics including air and water pollution regulation, support for the Environmental Protection Agency programs, public health, wildlife protection and related topics. Ross is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gci"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions\/507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}