So, in other words, he just another enviroloony worried about his job. Great!
Sierra club loved him in the late 90’s:
“Boehlert’s finest hour came in the battle over 17 amendments, or “riders,” that Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-Texas) had tacked on to the EPA’s budget, which would have crippled the agency’s ability to enforce environmental laws. In a turning point for the 104th Congress, Boehlert convinced 63 of his GOP colleagues to abandon their party and join House Democrats in voting to ax the riders. “More and more,” Boehlert told the electronic news service Greenwire, “my colleagues who did not support us on clean water or the EPA riders are catching hell back home.” Even DeLay was forced to concede defeat. “We have lost the debate on the environment,” he said. “I can count votes.”
So can Newt: he acknowledged the rising clout of the Republican moderates by appointing Boehlert co- chair of a GOP task force whose aim is to come up with a unified Republican environmental policy—a chore made more difficult by the fact that its other co-chair is DeLay, the man who thinks that DDT is “not harmful,” that the decision to ban CFCs to reduce ozone depletion “is the result of a media scare,” and who is unable to name a single government regulation he favors.”
Note ‘Newt propped him up’ and ‘he took 63 Republicans with him....’ Reminds me of John Kasich taking 42 Republicans with him to pass the Assault weapons ban. Sigh...
And DDT is tasty and should be reintroduced into every country that has a malaria and dengue fever problem.