Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.

I was a little too young to be a hippie.

I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control.

Dating back to Teddy Roosevelt, hunters have been the pillar of conservation in America, doing more than anyone to conserve wildlife and its habitat.

Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains.

We also know that China and India, as their economies ramp up, are using more and more energy.

We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.