Our Mission
CTLCV is a bipartisan, statewide, non-profit organization dedicated to protecting Connecticut's environment by making it a priority for our elected leaders. 

As a legislative watchdog, CTLCV works in concert with Connecticut's environmental advocacy groups to identify and highlight important bills impacting our air, water, wildlife, open space, and our health.  

CTLCV also supports pro-environment candidates for political office at election time and holds state legislators accountable for their votes in an annual Environmental Scorecard.

What We Do

• Environmental Scorecard:  CTLCV identifies and tracks state legislation introduced in Connecticut's General Assembly that will impact the state's natural resources. State Legislators are notified about these bills through periodic Scorecard Alerts and asked to cast a pro-environment vote. After each session, CTLCV produces an Environmental Scorecard that grades legislators on their overall votes and makes this information widely available to the public.
• Candidate Endorsements:  Each year, CTLCV endorses political candidates for state and local office who have demonstrated leadership and pledge to make the environment a high legislative priority. Endorsements for the 2008 election cycle are being announced beginning in August 2008.
• Voter Education:  CTLCV works to get more conservation-minded people involved in the political process by providing the tools and information they need to make informed choices at election time. CTLCV is helping to build a stronger environmental presence in the State Legislature and empowering Connecticut residents to protect the environment.

How CTLCV Got Started ... By Advocates, for Advocates, for the Environment.
The fire was going out by 1990s.  But where was everybody?  The fire in the Connecticut legislature that produced laws to protect coastal marshes, safeguard inland wetlands, clean up the rivers, stop throwing out garbage and hazardous waste wherever was handy, save natural areas and species living there, establish agencies to protect the environment, save farmland...That fire was going out. 

A dwindling few defenders, with names like Mushinsky, Stratton, Gunther and others remained in the General Assembly, but they felt beleaguered.  Where were their allies?  All that had been won was in danger of being lost through laws pushed through in the veiled darkness of the legislative process, without any public awareness or accountability. 

That was why the League was formed.  So that we could keep an eye on things.  Elect more defenders of the environment.  Let voters know what was going on.  Give the environment a political voice that was unsafe to ignore.