Saturday, September 14, 2013

Daily Kos: The states that get the most natural disaster aid sent 47 climate-change deniers to Congress

Daily Kos: The states that get the most natural disaster aid sent 47 climate-change deniers to Congress

Interestingly, many of the states that received the most federal recovery aid to cope with climate-linked extreme weather have federal legislators who are climate-science deniers. The 10 states that received the most federal recovery aid in FY 2011 and 2012 elected 47 climate-science deniers to the Senate and the House. Nearly two-thirds of the senators from these top 10 recipient states voted against granting federal emergency aid to New Jersey and New York after Superstorm Sandy.

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