Wednesday, December 17, 2014

No Friend to the Environment: Republican Representative Mike Simpson, Idaho's 2nd Congressional District


  Photo sourceU.S. Congress
Text sourceCongressman Mike Simpson, League of Conservation Voters

Simpson was re-elected to a 9th term with 61% of the vote.   He has no environmental committee assignments but does sit on the "powerful" House Appropriations Committee, where he is chairman of the House Energy and Water Development Appropriations Subcommittee.

It's not as though a climate-change discussion isn't taking place in Idaho.

A World Without Winter.  Climate change could mean umbrellas become winter weather gear.  (Boise Weekly, 11/6/2013)

No Friend to the Environment dishonor roll.

Alabama Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives.   (Their anti-environmentalism can be summed up in one word:  coal.  Which is odd, since Alabama contributes a mere 1.9% of U.S. production, good enough for an overall ranking of 13.  The state's peak year of production:  1990)  
Alaska Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives
  • At-large District.  Don Young (R).   Ridiculed environmentalists as a “self-centered bunch of waffle-stomping, Harvard-graduating, intellectual idiots.....not Americans, never have been Americans, never will be Americans.” 
 Arizona Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives
Arkansas Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives
California Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives
Colorado Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives
No House Republicans hail from Connecticut and Delaware. 
Florida Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives
Georgia's Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives
 Idaho's Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives


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