Absolutely agree with you Curtis.  Republicans who want to protect the environment are to be celebrated, including Dubya for creating the Papahanaumokuakea monument.  It was the GOP that first placed environmentalism on the national political agenda.  Teddy Roosevelt who created the national park system, Richard Nixon who created the EPA and passed the clean air act, Rep. Cynthia Theilen who is one of the biggest defenders of the environment in the HI state legislature, former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in CA, Gov. Brian Sandoval in Nevada, Rep. Pat Meehan in Pennsylvania… all deserve praise.  But these days they are few and far between. Republicans by and large dismiss climate change, undermine science, applaud the dismantling of the EPA and seem to cheer-on any company that wants to rape the environment for profit.  Progressive Republicans need to take back their party.