Sunday, December 21, 2014

No Friend to the Environment: Republican Representative John Shimkus, Illinois' 15th Congressional District


  Photo sourceU.S. Congress
Text sourcePolitico

Shimkus was re-elected to a 10th term with 75% of the vote.   He serves on the House Energy and Commerce Committee and is chair (2013-15) of the Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy.

Recommended reading for Rep. Shimkus.

Confronting Climate Change in the U.S. Midwest.  (Union of Concerned Scientists, June 2009)

Of interest to Shimkus' primarily rural constituents.
New threats to agriculture 
  • Crops and livestock would face substantially more heat stress, decreasing crop yields and livestock productivity. 
  • Warmer winters and a growing season up to six weeks longer would enable pests like the corn earworm to expand their range. 
  • Crop production would be inhibited by changing rain patterns such as wetter springs (which delay planting and increase flood risk) and almost 15 percent less rain during the increasingly hot summers.
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

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