RECOGNIZING LAWMAKERS WHO STOOD OUT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

The 2021 Indiana General Assembly was one of the toughest legislative sessions yet for environmental progress in our state.  Please take a moment to thank lawmakers for their good, pro-environmental votes and to hold them accountable for their bad, anti-environmental votes.  Find out how your state representative and state senator voted on the major environmental bills of this session: the anti-wetlands (SEA 389), anti-local climate action (HEA 1191), anti-mass transit (SB 141), climate-friendly farming & forestry (SB 373, Senate version), and anti-carbon storage liability bill (SB 373, House version).  Find out the contact information for your lawmakers.

In addition to reviewing your lawmakers’ voting record, please see immediately below, where we recognize many lawmakers for their environmental leadership.  Be sure to scroll further down this page for lawmakers who took a leadership role in advancing anti-environmental legislation. Note: Before you email your state lawmakers, please be sure to review both the voting record links above and scroll through the sections below; a lawmaker could be a “hero” on one bill (e.g., standing up against the anti-wetlands bill) but detrimental on another front or two, based on how they voted on key bills (e.g., the anti-climate or anti-transit bill)… If you have any comments or questions for us, please email us at comments@hecweb.org.

Representative Abbott (R-Rome City)

  • Spoke on the floor against the anti-wetlands bill (SEA 389);
  • Worked hard to advance pro-conservation language during the process

Senator Alting (R-Lafayette)

  • Spoke on the floor against the anti-wetlands bill (SEA 389)
  • Sponsored a pro-rooftop solar bill (SB 249)
  • Sponsored a coal ash reform bill (SB 367)

Representative Bauer (D-South Bend)

  • Spoke on the floor against the anti-wetlands bill (SEA 389)

Representative Boy (D-Michigan City)

  • Spoke on the floor against the anti-wetlands bill (SEA 389)
  • Sponsored a coal ash reform bill (HB 1469)
  • Filed a bill to tighten notification requirements in the event of a water spill (HB 1151)
  • Filed a bill to establish a state grant program to provide microgrants to communities working to establish greenhouse gas inventory programs (HB 1344)

Senator Breaux (D-Indianapolis)

  • Spoke on the floor against the anti-wetlands bill (SEA 389)
  • Spoke on the floor against the anti-local climate bill (HEA 1191)

Representative Cook(R-Cicero)

  • Sponsored pro-rooftop solar bill (HB 1394)

Senator Crider (R-Greenfield)

  • Spoke on the floor against the anti-wetlands bill (SEA 389)

Representative Delaney (D-Indianapolis)

  • Key leader in effort to stop anti-mass transit legislation (SB 141)

Representative Dvorak (D-South Bend)

  • Filed a bill to put a cap on the amount of toxic PFAS in public drinking water systems (HB 1129)
  • Filed a bill that would have the effect of reducing fertilizer runoff into Lake Michigan (HB 1162)
  • Filed a bill to modernize Indiana’s energy efficiency building code for residential buildings (HB 1291)
  • Filed a bill that would require INDOT to create a wildlife corridor action plan (HB 1292)

Representative Errington (D-Muncie)

  • Spoke on the floor against the anti-wetlands bill (SEA 389); worked on much more protective legislative language; advance Wetlands Task Force language
  • Spoke for coal ash reform in the House Environmental Affairs Committee (HB 1469)
  • Sponsored factory farm reform bill (HB 1472)

Senator Ford (D-Indianapolis)

  • Spoke on the floor against the anti-wetlands bill (SEA 389)

Senator Glick (R-Lagrange)

  • Spoke on the floor against the anti-wetlands bill (SEA 389)
  • Sponsored pro-climate-friendly farming & forestry bill (SEA 373)
  • Stood up against anti-carbon storage liability bill (SEA 373)
  • Raised serious objections to pro-polluter language in HB 1436

Representative Gutwein (R-Francesville)

  • Agreed to a version of the anti-wetlands bill (SEA 389) that was much more protective of wetlands that the original filed bill.  That version passed out of Committee (but was then ultimately stripped on the House floor)
  • Scroll below for anti-environmental leadership

Representative Hamilton (D-Indianapolis)

  • Spoke on the floor against the anti-wetlands bill (SEA 389)
  • Championed greater trails funding (HB 1001)
  • Raised concerns about a coal ash permitting bill during House Ways & Means Committee

Representative Hatfield (D-Evansville)

  • Raised a number of excellent questions regarding the anti-carbon storage liability bill (SEA 373)

Representative Jackson (D-Gary)

  • Spoke in favor of coal ash reform bill

Representative Johnson(D-Indianapolis)

  • Worked hard to strip anti-mass transit language from this legislation (HEA 1191)

Senator Lanane (D-Anderson)

  • Spoke on the floor against the anti-wetlands bill (SEA 389)
  • Raised serious objections to pro-polluter language in HB 1436

Senator Mrvan (D-Hammond)

  • Spoke on the floor against the anti-wetlands bill (SEA 389)

Representative Negele (R-Attica)

  • Led effort to partially restore ability for local governments to require pollinator-friendly solar  (HB 1381)
  • Sponsored pro-rooftop solar bill (HB 1394)

Representative Pierce (D-Indianapolis)

  • Forcefully spoke up against anti-local climate bill (HEA 1191)
  • Successfully advocated for positive changes to a first-ever securitization bill for Indiana (SEA 386)

Representative Pressel (R-Rolling Prairie)

  • Did not advance anti-mass transit bill to a vote (HEA 1191)
  • Scroll below for anti-environmental leadership

Senator Quaddoura(D-Indianapolis)

  • Spoke on the floor against the anti-wetlands bill (SEA 389)
  • Spoke on the floor against the anti-mass transit bill (SB 141)
  • Championed the cause of environmental friendly solar energy (HB 1381)
  • Advocated for trails funding

Senator Randolph (D-East Chicago)

  • Spoke on the floor against the anti-wetlands bill (SEA 389)

Representative Slager (R-Schererville)

  • Led effort to advance a version of the anti-wetlands bill (SEA 389) that was much more protective of wetlands that the original filed bill.  That version passed out of Committee (but was then ultimately stripped on the House floor)

Representative Schaibley (R-Carmel)

  • Sponsored pro-rooftop solar bill (HB 1394)

Representative Speedy (R-Indianapolis)

  • Sponsored pro-rooftop solar bill (HB 1560)

Senator Tallian (D-Ogden Dunes)

  • Authored a coal ash reform bill (SB 367)
  • Educated her fellow Senate Ds on pro-polluter SB 411
  • Spoke on the floor and in Committee against anti-wetlands SEA 389
  • Pushed back against anti-mass transit bill SB 141
  • Spoke out in Committee against pro-polluter bill HB 1436

Senator Taylor (D-Indianapolis)

  • Spoke on the floor against the anti-wetlands bill (SEA 389)
  • Spoke out on the floor against anti-mass transit bill (SB 141)

Senator Tomes (R-Wadesville)

  • Defended local control by supporting effort to strip a bill of language that would have tied the hands of local governments wanting to control factory farm pollution in their outskirts (HB 1337)
  • Scroll below for anti-environmental leadership

Senator Yoder (D-Bloomington)

  • Authored a strong, pro-rooftop solar bill (SB 420)
  • Spoke on the floor against the anti-wetlands bill (SEA 389)
  • Advanced an amendment that would have lessened the damage of an anti-climate bill (HEA 1191)
  • Championed the cause of environmental friendly solar energy (HB 1381)