This morning we had the opportunity to sit down with the League of Conservation Voters to discuss Sen. Mitch McConnell’s #4 position on the organization’s list of the nation’s “Dirty Dozen.”

Check your watches. It’ll be less than 24 hours until the Senator sends out an urgent fundraising plea because he is under attack from the tree-hugging left.

Since people in the real world recognize that saving our environment makes good economic sense, we’re, well, we’re all left wondering what on earth McConnell thinks he’s doing by serving as the Senator in Washington with the absolute worst LCV rating score. Supporting renewable energy and the environment is hardly a Democratic or Republican issue– it’s an American issue. The dear Senator needs to realize this sooner rather than later because we get the extreme sense that the League will be spending mega bucks in Kentucky this general election cycle.

Some information from the LCV after the jump…

From the LCV:

The Godfather’s Greatest Hits:

1. Like Hurricane Katrina, last week’s flooding in Kentucky and across the country highlighted the danger posed to life and property by increasingly intense weather patterns linked to global warming. Months before mothers in South Livingston started rowing their children to school and Louisville’s streets were under water, McConnell voted to prevent the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from taking into account the effects of global warming when planning water projects. His vote sought to prevent the men and women who build our dams and levees to ignore serious threats to those vital pieces of infrastructure (HR 1495, vote 166, 05/15/07).
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5. In 2007, McConnell led the fight against HR6, a comprehensive energy bill, which increased fuel efficiency standards, reduced America’s dependence on foreign oil, and saved drivers more than $26 billion at the pump. Filibusters orchestrated by McConnell failed to derail the bill, but blocked the transfer of more than $18 billion in tax incentives from Big Oil companies to clean, renewable energy. McConnell voted against clean, renewable, American energy four times on this single bill. This at a time when Kentucky citizens are paying record prices at the pump and oil companies are reporting record profits on Wall St. (HR 6, Senate votes 225, 226, 416, 425)
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7. In 2005, McConnell followed the oil company line and denied the threat of global warming. He voted for a motion to kill a “Sense of the Senate” bill that sought only to acknowledge the problem. (Senate Amd 866, vote 149, 06/22/05)

The Godfather of Greenbacks:

• Senator McConnell has accepted more than $580,000 in donations from the oil and gas industry, more than $142,000 this election cycle alone - the same cycle in which he fought to maintain more than $18 billion in tax breaks for the oil industry despite record industry profits.
• Senator McConnell has accepted more than $300,000 from electric utilities, almost half of that sum, $146,000, during this cycle – the same cycle in which he filibustered in order to remove a common sense renewable electricity standard from the Energy bill.
• Senator McConnell has accepted more than $507,000 from the mining industry, an industry responsible for a large percentage of this country’s Superfund sites. Senator McConnell has resisted all efforts to reform the archaic General Mining Law of 1872 as it continues to give corporate miners free reign to pollute public lands and not pay a single cent in royalties, passing the burden on to the taxpayer.