WCPT 820 Interview: Dany Robles

Interview by Richard Chew for WCPT 820: 

Richard Chew is joined by Dany Robles, senior legislative director at the Illinois Environmental Council (IEC); he talks about IEC’s 2026 Legislative Environmental Scorecard.

“We published this annual environmental legislative scorecard to make sure that people are aware of how their legislators are doing for pro- and anti-environmental bills and this is the only free and publicly available resource that tracks and evaluates environmental voting for state legislators…”  – Dany Robles  

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