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.
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Our approach has been to have a balanced energy policy, and today's decision indicates that balance. ... This does allow us to prevent the most immediate, most in-shore area of potential oil and gas development.Gale Norton
These are estimates that are done by the experts as to how much they expect we could get from the first lease sale that would take place in ANWR, and the estimate is about $2.5 billion.
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I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.
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Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?
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As Colorado's attorney general, she allowed polluters to evade environmental fines and did little after a gold mine's cyanide leaks killed all life in a 17-mile stretch of river, ... In another case, she sat out the fight against a corporate power plant that broke air pollution laws 19,000 times.
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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.
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