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Sunday, July 27th, 2014

In West Virginia Congressional Race, Both Candidates Think Climate Change Is “Not Our Problem’

Author:     EMILY ATKIN
Source:     Think Progress
Publication Date:     July 26, 2014 at 9:20 am
 Link: In West Virginia Congressional Race, Both Candidates Think Climate Change Is “Not Our Problem’
Stephan:   Since we are going to have an election in a few months time I have been looking closely at the candidates. The Republican Party this year particularly seems to be specializing in promoting morons. But in Red value states the Democrats are often not much better. This is what is on offer from both parties in West Virginia: two men who are both incompetent to stand for office. Yet one of them is going to represent West Virginia's 2nd District. This is a very pronounced trend and one of the symptoms telling us our democratic republic is failing. You'd do better to vote for your dog. At least your dog understands loyalty, service to others, integrity, and well-being.

There are two major-party candidates in the running for West Virginia’s 2nd Congressional District seat in the U.S. House, and both of them think the issue of climate change is best left for other countries to deal with, according to multiple news reports from a candidate forum Thursday.

At the forum, both Democrat Nick Casey and Republican Alex Mooney would not say whether they accept that humans are contributing to global warming. But either way, both candidates also said that it wasn’t for them to decide.

‘It’s not our problem,” Casey reportedly said, adding that it was an international issue. ‘These other people think we’ve got a global problem, let’s see them step up.”

According to the Associated Press, Mooney echoed Casey, saying ‘there’s no EPA in China” to ensure the country is limiting its greenhouse gas emissions. On the contrary, China has a Ministry of Environmental Protection that works to limit emissions.

Both candidates used their stance on the United States’ responsibility to fight climate change to argue that the Environmental Protection Agency should not be regulating greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants. If elected, Mooney said he would ‘fight for legislation to defund and restrict the EPA.”

Casey is certainly correct that, […]

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