Thursday, December 18, 2014

No Friend to the Environment: Republican Representative Peter Roskam, Illinois' 6th Congressional District


  Photo sourceU.S. Congress
Text source Palatine Patch

Roskam was re-elected to a 5th term with 67% of the vote.   He has no environmental committee assignments.

Insurance co. sues Will County, 12 towns over flood damage.  (Chicago Tribune, 4/29/2014)

A sincere or mercenary action?
The governments should have been prepared for a higher volume of rain that would fall more intensely and for a longer duration due to climate changes during the past 40 years, the lawsuit states.
The rain that fell on those two days in April 2013 was "reasonably manageable" by the towns and "was an ordinary rainfall experience" within the context of Will County's rainfall history, according to the lawsuit.
It was not an "'Act of God' rainfall," the lawsuit states.  

Climate Law Blog

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
 Illinois' Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives
  • 6th District.  Peter Roskam (R).  Once referred to climate change as "junk science".


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