2012 Republican Presidential Candidates on the Environment

Despite only housing 5% of the world population, we contribute approximate 20% of the world's atmospheric pollution, and it is set to increase. The U.S. Energy Information Administration, in its Annual Energy Outlook (2011) report, predicted that at its current trajectory, CO2 emissions primarily from fossil fuels would rise by another 16% in fifteen years time, irrevocably committing the nation towards the path of complete environmental failure.

We are staring at the edge of the precipice now, as our lack of political will in combating the excesses of our industrial and manufacturing waste is going to, at the current rate, poison the very air that we breathe in a matter of decades. Second hand smoke will be looked upon with amusement then, as CO2 emissions exceeds 1,000 parts per million of our breathable air. This is an issue that will affect our children in the long run, and many parents in the United States will be looking at the issue with concern.

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Declared 2012 Republican Presidential Candidate
Former Speaker of the House

Newt Gingrich

Gingrich Position on the Environment

• Gingrich supports lowering carbon emissions but is skeptical of the climate change theories.

• He favors tax breaks over cap and trade.

• He supports conservative-based conservation efforts.

• He wrote a book on his views of the environment called 'A Contract with the Earth'.

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Declared 2012 Republican Presidential Candidate
Former Governor of Massachusetts

Mitt Romney

Romney Position on the Environment

• 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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Declared 2012 Republican Presidential Candidate

Matt Snyder

Snyder Position on the Environment

The U.S. has more respect for the environment than any other oil producing country. Snyder supports letting the U.S. produce the majority of its own fuels. Handing the task to foreign nations is the worst thing that could happen to the world’s environment.

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Declared 2012 Republican Presidential Candidate
Businessman

Vern Wuensche

Wuensche Position on the Environment

• Vern Wuensche believes a cost benefit analysis should be performed before passing any environmental regulation.

• He opposes any form of cap and trade regulation.

• Wuensche believes that unrefutable evidence of global warming should be required before passing any related laws.

• He believes that property owners should be properly compensated for the loss of their property due to environmental regulations.

• He believes we should properly manage and protect out national forests.

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