Harris's Latest Attack on the Environment

In a recent subcommittee hearing the Chairman, Congressman Andy Harris not only challenged an EPA official about a recent study but issued a press release using the phrase "Junk Science". This pejorative phrase is calculated for one purpose and that is to provide an easy to remember campaign slogan showing his faithful that he is their champion. Although the focus of the hearing was the EPA and a specific environmental problem in Wyoming, the Congressman's real agenda is evident in the press release. He references Governor O'Malley and "his own climate change agenda", a matter extaneous to the hearing. Although no longer a member of the Maryland Senate, Andy Harris wants us all to remember that he ranked near the bottom of state legislators in protecting the Bay.

 

The irony of the phrase "junk science" is that, in fact, it describes much of what the right wing has promoted, whether it be in denying human impact on the 

climate, questioning the overwhelming evidence supporting evolution, or undermining stem cell research.

 

To top it off Congressman Harris revealed his fear about being exposed as an advocate of "junk science", by having a video director arrested for "unlawful entry" while attempting to film a public event on public property, an activity that has been done previously.

 

Congressman, since there was no evidence that the filming was interfering with the hearing, what are you really afraid of?