Tuesday, March 31, 2015

No Friend to the Environment: Republican Representative Markwayne Mullin, Oklahoma's 2nd Congressional District


Photo sourceU.S. Congress
Quote sourceThink Progress

'Tea Party favorite' Mullin was elected to a 2nd term in 2014 with 70% of the vote.

Recommended reading for Rep. Mullin and constituents in his eastern Oklahoma district.

Drier, Hotter, More Extreme Weather: How Climate Change is Already Affecting Oklahoma.  (Oklahoma Public Media Exchange, 5/8/2014)
In Oklahoma and other Great Plains states, climate change from carbon emissions is changing crop growth cycles, increasing energy and water demand, altering rainfall patterns and leading to more frequent extreme weather and climate events, the report concludes. 

The magnitude of those changes is expected to increase throughout Oklahoma’s region, according to the report. And researchers say current planning efforts to respond and adapt to climate change are “inadequate. 
0% lifetime score from League of Conservation Voters.

No Friend to the Environment dishonor roll.

Alabama Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives.   (Their anti-environmentalism can be summed up in one world:  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.” 
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No House Republicans in Massachusetts delegation.
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