"Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment." ― Gale Norton Topic(s): Environmental More From Gale Norton "Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?" More In Environmental "I have a private plane. But I fly commercial when I go to environmental conferences."― Arnold Schwarzenegger "We created the Cabinet Committee on the Environment to review the environmental implications of all government initiatives. I think what made us successful was the fact that it was a sustained approach. We did something new every year."― Brian Mulroney "Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost."― Vivienne Westwood