by Glynn Wilson

Alabama is a red state in more ways than one.

In addition to voting more for conservative Republicans than just about any other state in the country, earning the state red status on the national political map, Alabama scores a low down red on the green report card issued by the League of Conservation Voters.

Conservative Republican Senators Jeff Sessions and Richard Shelby both scored Fs for Failure in a report released Monday. Sessions scored 9 out of a possible 100, while Shelby got an 18.

One of the primary reasons for the low score was due to the fact that Alabama’s delegation took a hard line against the landmark American Clean Energy and Security Act, which would help bring more than 29,000 clean energy jobs to Alabama, according Conservation Alabama, a statewide conservation group that today joined the national League for the first time on our suggestion in releasing the 2009 National Environmental Scorecard.

“Alabama’s Congressional delegation opted against bringing clean energy jobs to the state and voted against reducing our national dependence on foreign oil,” Conservation Alabama’s executive director Adam Snyder said in a press release accompanying the report.

“In a state that has 11 percent unemployment, with some counties at nearly 25 percent, Alabama’s Congressional delegation cannot afford to send a message to the world that we are not open for business for clean energy jobs,” he said, even though that’s exactly what they did.

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