In quieter corners, including at environmental groups focused on energy and climate policy as well as land preservation, the goal has never been a ban, but instead a push to create the set of rules, policies, revenue flows and relationships that give the greatest social and economic benefits with the least risk of environmental regrets.
The administration can move forward with planned rules requiring the industry to stem leaks of natural gas into the air (which is easily doable, often at a profit) and can intensify work with China and other gas-rich countries to advance gas extraction without environmental regrets.
What do you see as the best mix of achievable policies to limit environmental and economic regrets?
In a statement, Molson Coors said it was serious about environmental compliance and regretted the "isolated incident".
Mr. Rapu, who grew up on the island, said he regretted the environmental changes that had befallen the area.
"I probably just need to get a better regulator". Sider has no regrets about her environmental upgrades, which included a "dual flush" toilet, added in 2005.
Martin Baggs, from Thames Water, said: "We very much regret the fish kill and other environmental damage resulting from the discharges of storm sewage.
"We share the committee's regret than some landowners have refused access for environmental surveys and hope they will now grant this access".
They hope to reverse rising inequality, repression and environmental degradation.A senior government spokesman says, with a hint of regret, that Laos has given concessions on 30% of its land to foreigners.
Mr. Strickland said that he worried that a political climate that cast aviation as an environmental villain would damage the sector in ways that Britons would come eventually to regret.
Dick Friend, president of an environmental testing firm out of Waverly, N.Y., was polite to a bucketeer and lived to regret it.
