Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) was elected into the Senate in 2004, after spending ten years in the House of Representatives for North Carolina’s 5th district. He sits on the Health, Education, Labor, Pensions, and Finance Committee, and he is Chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence.
Burr on Climate Change
Burr has a poor environmental voting record, a reported 9% lifetime score by the League of Conservation Voters. In 2011, the senator himself introduced a bill that would abolish the EPA by conflating it with the Department of Energy.
In 2015, he voted against an amendment to the Keystone XL Pipeline Act that said climate change is real and human caused, and in 2019 he voted against a resolution that expressed disapproval of President Trump’s action to repeal the Clean Power Plan and instate the Affordable Clean Energy rule, considered by many to rollback greenhouse gas regulation.
Burr and Friends
For the 2016 election cycle, Senator Richard Burr received $329,200 from Agribusiness Political Action Committees (PACs), and he received $206,450 from Oil and Gas PACs. He votes in line with President Trump 92.2% of the time.
Covid-19
Senator Burr has a habit of dismissing science and health issues in the eye of the public. Weeks before the Covid-19 virus hit the U.S., Burr held a private meeting during which he warned constituents of the pandemic; he did not grant the public the same sort of precise warning. Burr later sold stocks worth between $628,000 and $1.7 million just before the Covid-19 market crash.
See Also
Sen. David Perdue
Climate of Denial