Top Senate Dem gets low marks on enviro scorecard
 Environmentalists who hope that their issues might fare better in the state Senate if Democrats seize control in November might have been taken aback today when a scorecard from an environmental group gave the Democratic Senate leader a relatively dismal rating.
Minority Leader Malcolm Smith of Queens got a mere 72 on the Environmental Advocates scorecard. That was not only well below the average Senate score of 80, it was four points lower than the grade Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos got.
Smith ran afoul of the group by voting for a gas-tax holiday and for loosening restrictions on dam inspections and forest protections.
A Smith spokeswoman would say only that he “has consistently voted in favor of legislation aimed at meeting the environmental needs of all New Yorkers.’‘
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