Saturday, May 16, 2015

No Friend to the Environment: Republican Representative Randy Neugebauer, Texas's 19th Congressional District


Photo sourceU.S. Congress
Text sourceOpposing Views

"Tea Party congressman" Neugebauer was re-elected to a 7th term in 2014 with 77% of the vote.

Required reading for Rep. Neugebauer and the constituents in his upper midwestern Texas district.

Climate Scientists:  Texas is Missing an Opportunity.  (Texas Observer, 7/13/2015)
"Texas is really at the forefront of this problem,” said Katharine Hayhoe, a world-renowned scientist at Texas Tech University in Lubbock [which is in Neugebauer's district] who studies the effects of climate change on communities across the country. “In the majority of cases, the ways that climate change are going to affect us are the ways that we’re already vulnerable.”
3% lifetime rating (3% in 2014) from the 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.” 
 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. 
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Louisiana Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives
Maine Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives
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No House Republicans in Massachusetts delegation.
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Mississippi Congressional delegation:   U.S. House of Representatives
Missouri Congressional delegation:   U.S. House of Representatives 
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South Carolina Congressional delegation:   U.S. House of Representatives
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