Marco Rubio (Environmental)

Rubio's Environmental (section page)

Fix Environment with the Free Market

• "We must be willing to embrace the free-market approach--not European-style, big-government mandates." (OTI)

Climate Change

• "I do not believe that human activity is causing these dramatic changes to our climate the way these scientists are portraying it, and I do not believe that the laws that they propose we pass will do anything about it, except it will destroy our economy." (OTI)

Energy Plan

Optimize America’s Resources

• Empower states and tribes to control onshore energy development within their borders (MRWEP)
• Rewrite the Obama administration’s five-year Offshore Drilling Plan (MRWEP)
• Immediately approve the Keystone XL Pipeline (MRWEP)
• Immediately lift the 1970s-era ban on crude exports (MRWEP)
• Expedite approval of American natural gas exports (MRWEP)
• Defend U.S. interests in international climate negotiations (MRWEP)
• Bolster the energy security of U.S. allies (MRWEP)
• Conclude TTIP negotiations without restrictions on access to U.S. energy exports (MRWEP)

Minimize Government Bureaucracy

• Create a national regulatory budget to limit the power of unelected regulators (MRWEP)
• Stop President Obama’s carbon mandates (MRWEP)
• Expose the true costs of environmental litigation to taxpayers (MRWEP)
• Simplify and improve the environmental review process (MRWEP)

Maximize Private Innovation

• Reform higher education system to support energy jobs of the future (MRWEP)
• Facilitate private-sector-led development of new technologies (MRWEP)
• Overhaul the tax code and cut taxes for business of all sizes (MRWEP)