Lisa Murkowski

As I shared with you last week, Alaskans are ready to find some commonsense solutions to protect our environment, but we need the Federal Government to recognize some of the unique challenges that we face.

I would suggest some of the Agency's choices are troubling.

I continue to hear about EPA's efforts on ozone, methane, and hydraulic fracturing.

This is a limitation on our ability to not only move but to breathe.

I think we did exactly what the American people have complained we don't do enough of in Washington, we sat down the Republicans, Democrats, advocates, and business.

The EPA's efforts to regulate existing electric power plants will increase energy prices and negatively impact the economy in Alaska and throughout the United States.

Not only has EPA failed to present a clear rationale to support the application of this Clean Air Act proposal to Alaska, it even failed to evaluate the impacts of the proposal to the State.

I think it's time to channel that innovation into finding solutions to stop and even to begin to reverse the effects of climate change.

The President's budget was written without regard to the spending limits that Congress is compelled to operate within.

I have described the water rule as a potential showstopper for new development in Alaska.

I'm hopeful that we can do the same with bipartisan solutions that move us forward instead of using controversial riders that hold us back.

We've got to be working together to resolve them.

Why shouldn't we say to a state like Tennessee that if you want to use your Land and Water Conservation Fund money to acquire more lands have at it?

I do approach the need for additional Federal purchases with some skepticism, particularly when we are dealing with tough budgetary times.

I fully support reauthorizing this Act this year in a way that reflects the changing needs and evolving viewpoints about conservation in the 21st century.

I believe that it makes sense to shift the Federal focus away from land acquisition, particularly in Western states, toward maintaining and enhancing the accessibility and quality of the resources we have.

I strongly believe conservation in the 21st century must include taking care of what we already have, what we choose to conserve first instead of simply pretending that more is always better.

We do need to look at access more and more, and I think that's appropriate.

One way to express itself the last time we dealt with this it seemed like, when we created a little bit of mandatory funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund a few years ago it all went to the state side because the westerners did…

I have to tell you, I am concerned.

I am sending out the signals.

As we forget the customer service, we are forgetting not only the satisfaction to the veteran.

We would be a zero importer before the end of the next decade

We do not want to lose focus of this important deterrent.

American Bird Conservancy supports the highest level of funding possible for the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act Grants.