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Mike Huckabee Photo by AP

Mike Huckabee
  • • Vows to achieve energy independence by a second term
  • • Would explore and pursue all avenues of alternative energy: nuclear, wind, solar, hydrogen, clean coal, biodiesel, and biomass
  • • Favors private-sector innovation as the means to control emissions
  • • Opposed Kyoto treaty
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Alan Keyes
  • • Opposes the Kyoto Treaty
  • • Supports prayer in schools
  • • Supports opening up ANWR in Alaska for oil exploration
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John McCain Photo by AP

John McCain
  • Led Senate effort to cap greenhouse gas emissions; favors tougher fuel efficiency standards.
  • Favors plan that would see greenhouse gas emissions cut by 60 percent by 2050.
  • Co-sponsored bill that would set mandatory caps on greenhouse gas emissions to 2004 levels by 2012 and to 1990 levels by 2020
  • Broke with President Bush on global warming.
  • 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
Ron Paul Photo by AP

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
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