• Mike Huckabee is known for his pro-environmental views and believes that people should be
good stewards to the environment regardless of the cause

• Outdoor Life magazine selected Huckabee as one of the 25 most influential people for
conservation. He was also named as Man of the Year by the American Sportfishing Association in
1997.

• "I have always been a conservationist. Stewardship of the air and land and soil is very
important to me. I will follow the principle I learned from the Boy Scouts: Always leave the land
better than when you found it. I am proud of my record in Arkansas, building constructive consensus
on key issues. I look forward to bringing the same leadership to America."

• His stated his views on global warming, "The most important thing about global warming is
this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the
scientists, but it is all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future
generations than we found it."
	
• Huckabee believes that human beings are just the caretakers of the magnificent creation of
planet earth. "I believe that even our responsibility to God means that we have to be good stewards
of this Earth, be good caretakers of the natural resources that don't belong to us, we just get to
use them. We have no right to abuse them."

• The former governor of Arkansas supported conserving the Buffalo River in the northern part
of the state when he took a stand against the construction of dams at the site. "While I understand
that building dams on streams can sometimes be useful in flood control, the creation of water
reservoirs necessary for sustaining life, or for the production of electricity, we must be careful
to balance our use of those resources to ensure that we do not lose all our natural treasures by
altering them."

• Obama said, "So we have a choice to make.  We can remain one of the world's leading
importers of foreign oil, or we can make the investments that would allow us to become the world's
leading exporter of renewable energy.  We can let climate change continue to go unchecked, or we can
help stop it.  We can let the jobs of tomorrow be created abroad, or we can create those jobs right
here in America and lay the foundation for lasting prosperity."

• Obama is working towards reducing the carbon pollution which he sees as a threat to our
climate and will perpetuate the dependence on fossil fuels. Obama lists out his policies to close
the carbon loophole and imposing stringent measures on carbon polluters. 

• Obama believes that carbon pollution can be put at check through a market based cap. This
is not only an environmentally friendly measure, but will address certain energy challenges too. 
The income that is generated in the process of closing the carbon loophole will be returned to the
people, especially those families, communities and business which are vulnerable.

• Obama also exhorted to save the future generations from a catastrophe of global proportions
by spelling out an energy plan wherein the carbon dioxide emissions will be reduced.

• "We've been talking about climate change in Washington for years and energy independence
and efficiency for years," Obama said. "But no matter how many scientists testified about greenhouse
gases, no matter how much evidence that they're threatening our coasts and endangering our weather
patterns, nothing happened with global warming until now."

• Palin supports offshore drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. "We're talking
about a sliver of the coastal plain of Alaska being explored and drilled for oil. It's about a
footprint of a 2,000-acre plot of land. That's smaller than the footprint of LAX." she also added
that, "I get frustrated with folks from outside Alaska who come up and say, 'You shouldn't develop
your resources.'" .  She also said, "I beg to disagree with any candidate who would say we can't
drill our way out of our problem or that more supply won't ultimately affect prices. Of course it
will affect prices."

• Concerning global warming Palin says that, "A changing environment will affect Alaska more
than any other state, because of our location. I'm not one though who would attribute (global
warming) to being man-made."
 
• Palin supports the idea of a natural gas pipeline from Alaska's North Slope. "When I look
every day, the big oil company's building is right out there next to me, and it's quite a reminder
that we should have mutually beneficial relationships with the oil industry."

• Sarah Palin opposes the idea of putting the polar bear in the endangered species list. She
even went on to the extent of suing the Interior Department over its decision. Palin is also in
favor of allowing mining in Bristol Bay, which, according to environmentalists, may disrupt the
vulnerable species of animals such as bears, salmon and caribou.

• Romney is of the opinion wherein the solution to our environmental problem lies in adopting
a market approach. While solving the environmental challenges, we should also be supporting growth.

• Rather than establishing mandates, the United States should harness its power of innovation
to enhance the alternative energy sources and discover innovative technologies that will help use
the energy more efficiently.

• Romney gives importance to achieving the target of energy independence so that it can free
itself from its enslavement to oil rich countries at the same time becoming an economic and military
superpower. This will require a series of measures that will include energy efficiency to be adopted
and conservation. 

• The nation will also need to develop and harness alternate sources of energy such as
nuclear energy, biodiesel, ethanol along with exploiting more domestic sources of oil such as Outer
Continental Shelf and Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. 

• Romney believes the nation will also have to invest a lot in research and innovation. The
areas that will need heavy investment include fuel technology, power generation and materials
science.  There needs to be an emphasis on clean technology and more efficient power generation.

• Mitt Romney is against the Kyoto Protocol believing that it will result in jobs leaving the
United States. 

• Romney is also criticized for flip-flopping on the environmental question. He was blamed
for subjecting his will to the likes of big companies. 

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