Phil Bredesen

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• Bredesen endorsed setting goal of 25% renewable energy by 2025

A resolution that it is the goal of the United States that, not later than January 1, 2025, the agricultural, forestry, and working land of the US should provide from renewable resources not less than 25% of the total energy consumed and continue to produce safe, abundant, and affordable food, feed, and fiber.

"Americans understand that we cannot continue to import 60% of our oil from foreign countries, many of which are hostile to the US, if we aim to be strong and secure in the world. They know that we will have to build a clean energy economy if we are to reduce our dependence on foreign oil. It is time for Congress to take a more active role in our clean energy future. Establishing a national goal--"25x'25" is the first step."

• Spend Resources to Stop Global Warming
• Institute a Carbon Tax or increase the gasoline tax.
• Climate change is a serious problem that should be dealt with now.
• Implement the Kyoto Protocol and the Greenhouse Gas treaty.
• Generally those who answer positively to those questions will also answer positively on these environmental statements:
• Spend resources on pollution control and on achieving clean air and clean water.
• Support and expand the Endangered Species Act.
• We do not include nuclear energy in the question text because it muddies the water in the discussion about reducing carbon-based energy sources. Some who supoprt the Kyoto Protocol favor nuclear energy, and others claim the problems of its waste products outweight its global warming benefits.
• Bredesen noted the need to conserve undeveloped land in his State of the State address earlier this year: “In Tennessee, we are blessed with some of the most beautiful and fruitful land and water on the face of the earth. If we are diligent in protecting that land and creating special new places, future generations and visitors to our state, alike, will have hundreds of thousands of acres of protected land for their use… for hiking and picnicking and hunting and fishing, and just for enjoying with their own families the beauty of God's creation here in Tennessee.”
• The governor has made land conservation a priority, and in his first term the state protected more than 30,000 acres of ecologically and culturally significant land for future generations. The state of Tennessee has also established critical infrastructure and partnerships to continue the governor’s conservation priorities.
• Tennessee State Parks have also thrived since Bredesen’s arrival in 2003. Fourteen state parks closed by the prior administration were reopened, an access fee program previously implemented at 23 state parks has been removed.