One Casten sentence trumps 12 years of inaction by Roskam on climate change

He's not even in Congress yet, but in one sentence IL 6th District Congressman Sean Casten has already given his constituents hope on combating likely the biggest challenge we face: climate change.

"My entire career is in energy and environmental and deploying capital for it, and it’s not lost on me that it’s a committee that freshmen don’t normally get on, but it’s been useful to talk to people if that’s where you want to end up."

What a relief to have as our congressman a scientist, a clean energy entrepreneur and a person who believes in grappling with the ignored problem of global warming. His predecessor Peter Roskam spent his entire 12 year congressional career denying climate change, ignoring climate change, pooh-poohing climate change. The weather forecast in the Illinois Sixth has just gotten a little bit brighter.