Monday, January 5, 2015

No Friend to the Environment: Republican Representative Steve King, Iowa's 4th Congressional District


  Photo sourceU.S. Congress
Text source:   Huffington Post

King was re-elected to a 7th term with 62% of the vote..  He serves on the House Committee on Agriculture, among others.

Recommended reading for Rep. King and his northwest and north-central Iowa constituents.

Iowa farmers learn to adapt to weather extremes.  (NPR, 8/12/2014)
Already, weather patterns are making it more challenging to raise corn — even in Iowa — in the middle of the Corn Belt. 
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 Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives
 Idaho Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives
 Illinois Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives
 Indiana Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives
 Iowa Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives

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