Steve Milloy at the Green Hell Blog has a good article on a group called The Republicans for Environmental Protection (REP). Of course, as Milloy points out, this implies that there are Republicans who are against protecting the environment. REP apparently is on the side of the angels, as opposed to the side of greedy polluting corporations. What this group is, in reality, is just another environmental pressure group. There views are indistinguishable from the Sierra Club or Al Gore. As Milloy points out:
REP supported the Waxman-Markey ?cap-and-trade? bill… And what did REP say about Republicans who
opposed Waxman-Markey?…Reps. Joe Barton of Texas, John Shimkus of Illinois and Fred Upton of
Michigan were given ?environmental harm demerits? for their supposed
?failure to engage constructively in the committee debate about climate
legislation.?…REP slammed Reps. Mike Pence of Indiana, Michele Bachmann of
Minnesota and John A. Boehner of Ohio ?for their efforts to poison and
polarize the debate on energy and climate legislation.? REP doesn?t just
speak ill of fellow Republicans ? it demonizes them…On the Senate side, REP slammed South Carolina?s Jim DeMint for the
audacity of trying to bar the Department of the Interior from reducing
water allocations to the aforementioned California farmers. Alaska?s
Lisa Murkowski was hit for blocking efforts to regulate carbon dioxide
because of polar bears. Oklahoma?s Tom Coburn got a demerit for opposing
a 2009 Obama administration land grab…So it appears that any Republican who dares to oppose the radical
environmentalist agenda of total government control over energy use and
property is a Republican Against the Environment.
http://greenhellblog.com/2010/09/28/republicans-green-with-democrat-envy-gop-activists-pursue-a-liberal-eco-agenda/
