Rod Grams (R)	44%
Mark Dayton (D)	49%

Race Recap:</<FONT size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica">With one of the worst environmental records in the nation, Senator Rod Grams (R) consistently votes out-of-step with the majority of environmentally concerned Minnesotans. By naming Grams to the Dirty Dozen, the League of Conservation Voters worked to inform Minnesotans about his efforts to weaken clean water protections, an especially egregious charge in the ôLand of 10,000 Lakes.ö   During his first term in the Senate, Grams voted against environmental protections 91 percent of the time, earning a miserable zero percent on the National Environmental Scorecard for his votes in 2000.  By electing Mark Dayton (D) to the Senate, Minnesotans will undoubtedly receive representation that better matches their commitment to clean water, healthy air and protected public lands.

Dirty Dozen Campaign Activities:

Total budget:  $26,000.  LCV named Grams to the Dirty Dozen during an October 10 news conference in Saint Paul, highlighting his anti-environmental voting record.

• Grams voted to hamstring the EPA by supporting a measure to slash $1.5 billion from its budget, roll back clean air and water regulations, and eliminate the EPAÆs ability to protect wetlands.
  
• Grams voted against an amendment to allow the EPA to issue new safeguards designed to prevent potentially fatal illnesses from toxic microbes such as Cryptosporidium, despite the fact that, two years earlier, a dangerous outbreak of the bacteria caused 104 deaths and over 400,000 illnesses in the neighboring state of Wisconsin.
  
• Grams voted against an amendment in 1998 that would have restored funding for important clean water programs that would have provided MinnesotaÆs communities with new resources to protect water quality.

On October 29, 2000, LCV placed an ad in the Minneapolis Star Tribune highlighting GramsÆ votes against efforts to protect MinnesotaÆs lakes from pollution and to prevent the EPA from using new safeguards to protect Minnesotans from toxins.  The ad was strategically timed to run prior to the last three Senate debates to encourage the discussion about GramsÆ poor environmental record.  In endorsing Dayton, the Star Tribune pointed out that ôRod Grams has disappointed his constituents time and again with wrongheaded views on things that matteröàincluding the environment.