This douchenozzle is scamming to protect his job since he can’t seem to get reelected. The lying data faking b’strd hasn’t discovered that he is being dumped by his own leaders as they admit, “It ain’t about climate change, it’s about trying to redistribute wealth [to them].”
I remember Rush saying 15 or 20 years ago that environmentalists were like watermelons. Green on the outside. Red on the inside.
IIRC, he retired voluntarily. "On March 17, 2006, at a press conference in Utica, New York, Boehlert announced that he would not seek a thirteenth term in office." That's a quote from Wikipedia.