ConservAmerica endorses green-leaning Republicans

What do you do if you consider yourself a a conservative, but also a conservationist? Where do you go when the party that represents most of you views on economics and social issues seems to want to cut down all the trees on your local mountains, level the mountains, and then frack under what’s left and poison your drinking water with the residue?

Not an easy place to be, but the group ConservAmerica (formerly known as Republicans for Environmental Conservation) has been a lonely voice crying out FOR the wilderness for a number of years now. These folks are Teddy Roosevelt Republicans, who believe that you can’t love America if you want to abuse America’s heartland.

They’ve put out their list of endorsements, along with some background, for next week’s elections. Caveat: Many of these are not in the category of, for instance, “Scott Brown won’t necessarily be better for the environment than Elizabeth Warren, but he’ll be more conservative than Warren, and also good… enough… on the environment.”

Here’s their list:

House of Representatives

CALIFORNIA

• Mary Bono Mack (CA-45)
• Brian Bilbray (CA-50)

FLORIDA

• C.W. Bill Young (FL-10)
• Vern Buchanan (FL-13)
• Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (FL-18)

ILLINOIS

• Bob Dold (IL-10)
• Judy Biggert (IL-13)

MARYLAND

• Roscoe Bartlett (MD-6)

MINNESOTA

• Eric Paulsen (MN-3)

NEBRASKA

• Jeff Fortenberry (NE-1)

NEW HAMPSHIRE

• Charlie Bass (NH-2)

NEW JERSEY

• Frank LoBiondo (NJ-2)
• Jon Runyan (NJ-3)
• Chris Smith (NJ-4)
• Leonard Lance (NJ-7)
• Rodney Frelinghuysen (NJ-11)

NEW YORK

• Peter King (NY-3)
• Michael Grimm (NY-13)
• Nan Hayworth (NY-19)
• Chris Gibson (NY-20)
• Richard Hanna (NY-24)

NORTH CAROLINA

• Walter Jones (NC-3)

PENNSYLVANIA

• Jim Gerlach (PA-6)
• Patrick Meehan (PA-7)
• Mike Fitzpatrick (PA-8)
• Charles Dent (PA-15)

VIRGINIA

• Rob Wittman (VA-1)
• Frank Wolf (VA-10)

WASHINGTON

• Dave Reichert (WA-8)

WISCONSIN

• Tom Petri (WI-6)

Senate

Linda Lingle (HI)

Scott Brown (MA)

Bob Corker (TN)