Green Daily

If Delaware Senator Joe Biden becomes vice president the cartoon drawing of Mother Earth will not have to find her own bomb shelter.

His record is in line with many mainstream environmental groups on K Street. For example, in 2006 he voted against exploration, development, and production activities for mineral resources in the Gulf of Mexico. Currently, drilling in that region is off-limits until 2022.

In 2003 he voted to require the Department of Energy to conduct research that would support the production of 100,000 hydrogen-fueled vehicles in the United States by 2010, and 2,500,000 hydrogen fueled vehicles by 2020.

He's also opposed to a nuclear waste repository in Yucca Mountain in Nevada.

But he hasn't cut out the option of drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. A bill that would have cut out the possibility for revenue from that region got a pass from him.

In early 2007 before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee he had this to say about the environment and energy:

"I personally believe that the single most important step we can take to resume a leadership role in international climate-change efforts would be to make real progress toward a domestic emissions-reduction regime. For too long we have abdicated the responsibility to reduce our own emissions, the largest single source of the problem we face today. We have the world's largest economy, with the highest per-capita emissions. Rather than leading by example, we have retreated from international negotiations."