Well, my major request to you, and I said this to the Administrator yesterday, is that you put a very high priority on doing whatever EPA ca...
If you figure that out, you are going to make 2 or 3 billion dollars and solve a great big problem that we have.
I would simply like to encourage you to, wherever appropriate, work in partnership with universities in States like the University of Tennes...
But it is possible today... to get a bunch of Federal subsidies and build a big wind park right outside the Cherokee National Forest.
The administration's proposal to cut State regulatory grants... is completely unrealistic.
Would it not be wiser to establish zones or areas and say these are appropriate places, rather than just let entrepreneurs who might be attr...
I'm very supportive of the Federal side of LWCF, but as a former Governor, I can't overstate how important the stateside grant program is fo...
The problem with renewable energy for this country is the one of scale.
It makes no sense for us to spend $40 million buying the Cherokee National Forest and then sticking a bunch of 50-story wind turbines on top...
My concern is especially with the ridges of the Eastern United States, as you know, because we have talked about it because they are the onl...
The point I am leading to is that we often talk with renewable energy about 1,000 megawatts of electricity for wind and solar when only a on...
I continue to be concerned because the Great Smoky Mountains... gets about one-half the funding of similar parks.
I think your decisions have helped bring that to a successful conclusion.
We have spent more than a century and billions of dollars of public and private money protecting these landscapes and these areas.
I am happy, A, that you are focusing on treasured landscapes and, B, that the President--over the last 6 weeks-- has begun to take significa...
The State comes up pretty short.
I appreciate the difficult financial environment.
Our goal is not to eliminate surface mining of coal but to limit the practice of blowing off the top of a mountain and dumping the fill in s...
