Staff report

Florida's Republican candidate for governor and one of the Treasure Coast's representatives in the U.S. House received grades of 0 on a recent environmental voting scorecard, while the area's other congressman didn't fare much better.

The scorecard released Tuesday by the Environmental Working Group gave Reps. Ron DeSantis and Bill Posey, R-Rockledge, a 0 for their voting habits on environmental policies. Rep. Brian Mast, R-Palm City, received a score of 13 out of 100.

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The group's report looked at how each U.S. representative across the country voted on a series of 17 measures, ranging from preserving lead clean-ups to reversing toxic chemical safeguards.

DeSantis made an anti-environment vote on all 17 measures, according to the group, while Posey made anti-environment votes on 16 measures and did not vote on cutting funding to the Environmental Protection Agency.

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Mast made pro-environment votes on toxic air-pollution loopholes and cutting EPA funding, and he was not in office for votes on preserving lead clean-ups and protecting farmworkers from pesticides, according to the group.

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The Environmental Working Group is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to protecting human health and the environment, according to its website.

But Mast spokesman Brad Stewart accused the EWG of intentionally designing the "toxic pollution" scorecard to ensure every Republican received a failing grade.

The EGW, he said, ignored "real environmental votes that congressman Mast has taken, such as to authorize the EAA Southern Storage Reservoir, secure full funding to repair the Herbert Hoover Dike, oppose sugar industry subsidies and pass millions in additional funding to combat toxic agricultural runoff."