• 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. 
		

• 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."