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THE ISSUE: ENVIRONMENT

Hillary Clinton

• Introduced a plan to Congress to create a Strategic Energy Fund that would inject $50 billion into research, development, and deployment of renewable energy and energy efficiency • Supports policies to reduce carbon emissions • Would eliminate oil companies' tax breaks More from Clinton's website Clinton's bio, campaign coverage

Mike Gravel

• Believes that global climate change is a matter of national security and survivability of the planet • Would reduce America's carbon footprint in the world by initiating legislation to tax carbon at the source and cap carbon emissions More from Gravel's website Gravel's bio, campaign coverage

Alan Keyes

• Opposes the Kyoto Treaty • Supports prayer in schools • Supports opening up ANWR in Alaska for oil exploration Keyes's bio, campaign coverage

John McCain

• Co-sponsored bill that would set mandatory caps on greenhouse gas emissions to 2004 levels by 2012 and to 1990 levels by 2020 • Has voted for some fuel economy increases in the past, but says he would negotiate with automakers on the appropriate increase if he were president More from McCain's website McCain's bio, campaign coverage

Barack Obama

• Wants to implement an economy-wide cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to the level recommended by top scientists • Would invest $150 billion over the next ten years to develop and deploy climate friendly energy supplies • Wants to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and reduce oil consumption overall by at least 35 percent by 2030 • Unveiled an initiative to produce 5 million new jobs in the green energy sector. More from Obama's website Obama's bio, campaign coverage

Ron Paul

• Opposed using Yucca Mountain as the national nuclear waste repository • Says free market, private property ownership is a better way to care for the environment since governments don't have a good reputation on the environment More from Paul's website Paul's bio, campaign coverage