Where do your delegates stand on fracking? How did your district’s senator vote on the issue of mandatory lead testing in schools?

Washington D.C.-based advocacy group Food and Water Watch has done that research for you. In a new report card rolled out yesterday, the clean energy advocates have ranked all 188 of Maryland’s state lawmakers based on their voting records from the 2017 legislative session. Food and Water Watch based its report card on progressive voting patterns for nine bills. As a basic example, the senator who voted to ban fracking earns more points than the one who voted against the bill, under the group’s methodology.

Most of the grade revolves around how delegates and senators voted on six specific bills, including measures to ban fracking, require paid sick leave for small business employees, stop price-gouging by pharmaceutical firms and prohibit tax lien sales of homes for unpaid water bills, among others.

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