Candidates' Speeches at the Conventions & the Environment

The Candidates Speeches at the Conventions & the Environment

Paul Ryan’s speech at the Republican National Convention.

Nothing on the environment.

Transcript of Paul Ryan's speech at the RNC Published August 29, 2012, FoxNews.com

Mitt Romney's Acceptance Speech

One statement on environment: “President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet. MY promise...is to help you and your family.”

Jo Biden’s speech at the Democratic National Convention

No mention of environment

Transcript of Joe Biden's speech at the DNC. Published September 06, 2012, FoxNews.com

President Obama's Convention Speech

Transcript of President Obama's acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention, as delivered. September 6, 2012. Source: Federal News Service:

But unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country's energy plan or endanger our coastlines or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers. We're offering a better path.

         We're offering a better path where we — a future where we keep investing in wind and solar and clean coal, where farmers and scientists harness new biofuels to power our cars and trucks, where construction workers build homes and factories that waste less energy, where — where we develop a hundred-year supply of natural gas that's right beneath our feet. If you choose this path, we can cut our oil imports in half by 2020 and support more than 600,000 new jobs in natural gas alone. And yes, my plan will continue to reduce the carbon pollution that is heating our planet, because climate change is not a hoax. More droughts and floods and wildfires are not a joke. They are a threat to our children's future.

Over and over, we've been told by our opponents that bigger tax cuts and fewer regulations are the only way, that since government can't do everything, it should do almost nothing. If you can't afford health insurance, hope that you don't get sick. If a company releases toxic pollution into the air your children breathe, well, that's the price of progress.