Corbett Environment Nominee "Unaware Of Any 'Adverse Impacts'" From Climate Change

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Gov. Corbett's pick to run the state's Department of Environmental Protection is taking his case to Democrats in the Senate today ahead of his expected Tuesday confirmation vote.

Chris Abruzzo, a former prosecutor in the Attorney General's office, has been acting DEP secretary since the departure of Michael Kranzer last spring.

He touched off controversy at a Senate Judiciary Committee last week, when he told lawmakers he was unaware of any "adverse impacts" of climate change to human beings or animals.

In a letter, Sen. Daylin Leach (D., Montgomery) - the lone "no" vote on the committee against Abruzzo - called him a "climate change denier. The flap prompted calls from newspapers and, not surprisingly,at least two Democratic gubernatorial candidates, John Hanger and Allyson Schwartz, for Corbett to withdraw Abruzzo's name from contention

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http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/harrisburg_politics/Corbett-officials-draw-heat-over-climate-change.html

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1. "No one could have predicted any adverse effects ..."

Corbett is PA's Bush. PA Republicans will simply not mention his name after he is gone. He'll be airbrushed out of Party history, as in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia.