Wednesday, April 1, 2015

No Friend to the Environment: Republican Representative Frank Lucas, Oklahoma's 3rd Congressional District


Photo sourceU.S. Congress
Quote sourceHuffington Post

Rep. Lucas was elected to a 12th term in 2014 with 79% of the vote.  Lucas serves on the House Committee on Agriculture and the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology.

Recommended reading for Rep. Lucas and constituents in his northern, western, and panhandle Oklahoma district.

Oklahoma must begin preparing now for the impact of climate change, state climate scientist says.  (NewsOK, 5/8/2014)
Although the report paints a grim picture of the nation’s future, Shafer said it gives state policy makers an opportunity to begin to look at how climate change will affect the state’s economy, ecology and society, and begin to adapt to those changes.

Nationwide, public policy makers and private organizations already are beginning to plan for climate change and adapt to its effects, according to the report. But so far, few of those plans have been implemented, and those that have been enacted are mostly incremental changes, the report states.
5% lifetime score from League of Conservation Voters.

No Friend to the Environment dishonor roll.

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  • 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.” 
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