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Sen. Russell J. Black

Senate District 5

Republican | Email: Russell.Black@legislature.maine.gov

Current Score

17%

Lifetime Score

55%

2025 1 5 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 1 2 0

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

2023 0 4 3

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 4 2 1

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 2 4 1

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

2019 5 1 0

LD 1851 Land for Maine's Future
LD 1775 Sustenance Fishing Rights
LD 289 Polystyrene Ban
LD 1532 Plastic Bag Ban
LD 1711 Solar Power
LD 1494 Renewable Energy

2018 1 0 0

LD 1444 Solar Metering

2017 7 0 0

LD 56 Strengthen Bottle Bill
LD 1392 Energy Efficiency Code
LD 454 Safe Drinking Water
LD 586 Public Reserved Lands Recommendation
LD 1504 Solar Power
LD 182 Upholstery Chemical Ban
LD 820 Mining Protections

2016 2 2 0

LD 1454 Land for Maine's Future
LD 1600 National Monument Designation
LD 1649 Solar Power
LD 1629 Public Lands

2015 3 2 0

LD 1397 Timber Harvesting Revenue Diversion
LD 309 Regulatory "Takings" Change
LD 1215 Energy Efficiency Funding Replaced: "AND"
LD 1378 Land for Maine's Future Bonds
LD 750 Metallic Mining Rules

2014 5 1 0

LD 1252 Solar Rebate
LD 1431 Maine Foods Bill
LD 1455 Invest in the Clean Water and Safe Communities Bond
LD 1744 Strengthen Maine's Lake Protection Programs
LD 1772 Metallic Mineral Mining Rules
LD 1838 Timber Harvesting on Public Lands

2013 5 2 0

LD 825 Climate Change
LD 1308 Paint Recycling
LD 1302 Protect Water Quality from Mining Pollution
LD 718 GMO - Right to Know Labeling
LD 385 Wind-Power Siting
LD 1181 Strengthen Protection from Toxic Chemicals
LD 72 Open the St. Croix to Alewives

2012 2 4 0

LD 1853 Open-pit Mining
LD 1647 Aggrieved Persons
LD 1863 Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard
LD 1810 Takings
LD 1797 Waterfowl Wetlands Rule
LD 852 Land for Maine's Future Bond

2011 1 3 0

LD 228 Pesticides
LD 1534 North Woods 2011
LD 412 BPA
LD 1416 Energy Codes - MUBEC