Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?

I share your commitment to protect the environment of Florida's coastline as well as the entire eastern Gulf of Mexico, ... At the same time, I must consider our nation's energy needs and appropriate management of the American public's natural resources.

I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment.

The developers, if they decide to move a tortoise, have to pay the long-term costs for enhancing the areas that take care of the tortoise, and it gives us the opportunity to manage an area that is going to be protected.

I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.

We also know that China and India, as their economies ramp up, are using more and more energy.