UPDATED :The greenest Jim ,Greenopia responds below

Vermont Governor Douglas may have found himself a little green piece .Who says he is green ? Greenopia a glossy green website that looks to be based in California has rated all 50 U.S. governors on their greeness.Vermont's Governor Jim Douglas is in the top ten greenest governors.
Deserved or not the announcement appears useful for some purposes and already found it's way onto the Vermont State website "It's an honor to receive this recognition," said the ever eloquent and freshly green Governor Douglas.

Incomplete rating data for Douglas ?

Greenopia explains the ratings ...

Doug Mazeffa, Greenopia's director of research. "People want to know which Governors are the eco-leaders or laggards, and especially identify those making repeated eco-gaffes." Data for this study was collected from each governor's own web pages and cross-checked against credible sites such as VoteSmart and OnTheIssues. Energy and emission data was collected from the Department of Energy and the environmental platform data for each political party was collected from either the DNC or RNC's main site.As of this writing, Governor Douglas has not taken any Political Courage Test, but the Vermont Government page has a list of all of the Governor's initiatives and interested parties can read more about these programs.

Note that two of Greenopia's four rating criteria(Votesmart and OnThweIssues.org ) had no information available regarding the governor.
Votesmart Jim Douglas : No ratings on for this official.
No issue stance yet recorded by Jim Douglas :OnTheIssues.org.
Therefore they relied on information entirely from state of Vermont government sources.Such as the governor's website?

Greenopia does have a useful comment section

Greenopia.com responded to my email of 14 days ago expressing skepticism at their methods for Gov. Douglas being named 8th Greenest US Gov. .

We appreciate the feedback.
While Governor Douglas certainly did not have the most aggressive policies out there (we had him as above average), the reason for his higher placing was his much better than average transparency (something that hurt a lot of Governors) and the fact that there was measurable improvements based off some of his policies. We incorporated a scale that measured how successful various energy, water, and emissions programs had been and Vermont had one of the highest results. While this can certainly be argued was not entirely due to Governor Douglas, we felt this was important to consider and gave it a small part of the weighting.

We did not feel that looking at policies alone was good enough to pick the greenest Governors. So many of them never follow through and oftentimes resource conservation measures almost never have the intended effect.

At any rate, we know this result was a bit on the controversial side, but we stand by our scales and do not think the other green governor ratings out there do much justice. While we certainly concede that our scale is not perfect, we pride ourselves in considered more parts of the equation than most other groups.

Once again, we appreciate the feedback and if you want to see the criteria we used in their entirety, you can click on the icons on the governor's scorecard and it will take you to our criteria page.

Best,
Greenopia