Mike Huckabee presidential campaign, 2016/Natural resources

Mike Huckabee suspended his presidential campaign on February 1, 2016.^[1]

Mike Huckabee criticized President Obama’s policy priorities on October 12, 2015. He said, “This president is obsessed with climate change while the rest of the world understands the real danger of Islamic fanaticism. I think he thinks that sunburn is worse than a beheading and most of us think that’s nonsense.”^[2]

When asked by Yahoo’s Katie Couric on July 28, 2015, if he believed in climate change, Huckabee responded, “I think the climate’s been changing over the entire history of the earth.” Huckabee added that mankind “probably does” contribute to climate change, but dismissed its impact, saying, “A volcano in one blast will contribute more than 100 years of human activity.”^[3]^[4]

While appearing on NBC's "Meet the Press" in June 2015, Huckabee said the science of climate change has changed over the years and "is not as settled on that as it is on some things."^[5]

In his 2007 book, From Hope to Higher Ground, Huckabee said, "It would have been a mistake to sign the Kyoto Treaty since it would have given foreign nations the power to impose standards on us." He argued, however, that there should be "a comprehensive plan for either preserving or renewing" natural resources.^[6]

According to a December 2007 profile of Huckabee by FOX News, Huckabee called the need to combat climate change through greater regulations "a biblical duty."^[7]

Mike Huckabee released a statement on August 3, 2015, describing President Obama’s “Clean Power Plan” as "job-killing" and “a handout to Chinese businesses, Arab oil sheiks, Russian energy despots, and Washington insiders completely detached from reality.” Huckabee added, “President Obama’s crusade against carbon shows he’s more committed to confronting American coal miners than Iranian clerics who chant ‘Death to America.’”^[8]

In 2007, during a speech at the Global Warming and Energy Solutions Conference, Huckabee said, "I...support cap and trade of carbon emissions. And I was disappointed that the Senate rejected a carbon counting system to measure the sources of emissions, because that would have been the first and the most important step toward implementing true cap and trade." However, in 2010, he Huckabee stated that he did not support cap and trade in a public statement, writing, "If companies chose to participate voluntarily as part of their corporate policy, then fine. But I was clear that we could not force U.S. businesses to do what their Chinese counterparts refused to - and doing so would have been a serious job killer."^[9]

At the Iowa Agriculture Summit in March 2015, Mike Huckabee said "wind is part of the long term future in any energy development." He also suggested, "The portfolio of American energy ought to be as broad and as sustainable as possible."^[10]

In a September 2007 speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Huckabee said energy development was pivotal to the country's foreign policy needs. Huckabee said, "The first thing I will do as president is send Congress my comprehensive plan for energy independence, which we will achieve by the end of my second term. . . . We will explore, we will conserve, and we will pursue all avenues of alternative energy – nuclear, wind, solar, hydrogen, clean coal, ethanol and other biomass, and biodiesel."^[11]

On March 17, 2014, Mike Huckabee criticized the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Facebook after an investigation into its employees' credit card use revealed waste and fraud.^[12]

In an interview with the Family Research Council in June 2012, Huckabee suggested the EPA could regulate how much water Baptists used in baptism ceremonies.^[13]

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