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2026 Honor Roll

Sen. Richard Bennett

Senate District 18

Independent | Email: Richard.Bennett@legislature.maine.gov

Current Score

85%

Lifetime Score

65%

2026 7 0 0

LD 1934 Act to Promote Dark Skies
LD 870 Modernizing the Land Use Planning Commission
LD 307 Pressing Pause on Large-Scale Data Centers
LD 785 Tax Fairness for the Wabanaki Nations
LD 1949 Addressing Rising Utility Costs & Energy Fairness
LD 1870 Understanding Climate Impacts
LD 1730 Expand Access to Clean, Affordable Solar Energy

2025 4 2 0

LD 958 Tribal Trust Lands
LD 497 Vernal Pools
LD 297 Sludge Management
LD 252 Popular Vote Compact
LD 222 Firefighting Foam
LD 1868 Clean Energy Economy

2024 2 1 0

LD 2007 Criminal Jurisdiction of Tribal Courts
LD 1578 National Popular Vote
LD 1156 Trails Bond

2023 3 4 0

LD 2004 Securing Federal Benefits for Wabanaki Nations
LD 1986 Net Energy Billing
LD 1895 Launching Offshore Wind
LD 1518 Blocking Censorship
LD 1365 Voting Rights
LD 958 Protecting Loons
LD 894 Blocking Fossil Fuel Protection

2022 6 1 0

LD 906 Securing Access to Clean Drinking Water
LD 1639 Closing the Out-of-State Waste Loophole
LD 1959 Planning for the Electric Grid of the Future
LD 1964 Upgrading Water Quality Standards for Rivers and Streams
LD 1911 Preventing PFAS Contamination of Farmland
LD 1155 Securing Election Transparency and Audits
LD 1902 Expanding Opportunities for Climate Education in Schools

2021 5 2 0

LD 1541 Equitable Recycling Reform
LD 221 Budget (funding for the Land for Maine's Future program)
LD 1034 Permanent Commission on the Status of Racial, Indigenous, and Maine Tribal Populations
LD 99 Fossil Fuel Divestment
LD 1682 PUC Climate & Equity Impact Requirements
LD 1126 Online Voter Registration
LD 125 Ban Aerial Herbicide Spraying

2004 5 0 0

LD 1962 Liquidation Harvesting
LD 1899 Dissolved Oxygen
LD 1892 E-Waste
LD 1675 Great Ponds Act
LD 942 Good Science

2003 2 1 0

LD 1309 Arsenic
LD 886 Takings
LD 348 State Land Ownership Limits

2002 2 0 0

LD 1944 Arsenic
LD 1921 Auto Recycling

2001 3 2 0

LD RC11 Wight Nomination
LD 1812 Invasive Species
LD 1198 LURC Authority
LD 823 Environmental Terrorism
LD 365 Alewives

2000 4 1 0

LD 2579 Salmon Protection
LD 2526 Corporate Accountability
LD 470 Takings
LD 2084 Mercury Pollution
LD 2600 Curbing Sprawl

1999 2 1 0

LD 2253 Land Bond
LD 2179 Cut and Run Logging
LD 1144 Forestry Information

1998 2 2 0

LD 2223 Vehicle Emissions
LD 2111 Toxic Use Reduction
LD 1766 Forest Practices
LD 1730 Jet Skis

1997 1 5 0

LD 1577 Dioxin
LD 1455 Stormwater Regulations
LD 1217 Watershed Protection
LD 1198 Protecting Wildlands
LD 1175 LURC Subdivision
LD 1092 Forestry Information

1994 1 3 0

LD 1346 Low Emission Vehicles
LD 1928 Genetically Engineered Food
LD 990 Citizen Enforcement
LD 256 Solid Waste/Aseptic Packaging

1993 2 4 0

LD 1431 Chlorine-free Paper
LD 1351 Vehicle Emission Inspection
LD 672 Private Property Rights
LD 904 Smoking in Public Places
LD 519 Gravel Pits
LD 102 State Energy Policy

1992 4 1 0

LD 1654 Criminal Penalities
LD 2308 Motor Vehicle Emissions
LD 2126 LURC Subdivision
LD 1551 Citizen Enforcement
LD 4709 Motor Vehicle Efficiency

1991 3 1 1

LD 618 Land Aquisition Bond
LD 842 Solid Waste/Plastic Rings
LD 1166 Solid Waste/Plastic Bags
LD 1134 Smoking in Public Places
LD 378 ATV’s in State Parks