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RNC: Drill, baby, drill House GOP leaders call for their energy bill, or no energy bill at all	Kate Sheppard	04 Sep 2008	Gristmill
House Democrats are planning to co-opt the idea of an 'all of the above' energy policy that the Republican congressional leadership has been pushing, offering them a bill that includes an expansion of offshore drilling, coupled with a renewable electricity mandate, energy-efficiency standards for buildings, and provisions to raise taxes on the oil industry. This is essentially the Democrats attempting to call Republicans' bluff on energy policy by getting them to vote ...
Topics: Congress, legislation, Muckraker, news, oil and gas drilling, politics, renewable energy, Republican National Convention, tax incentives, video (all these topics)

'Every other climate that has been warmed had better grapes' Stunning interview with incoherent GOP denier running for Congress	Joseph Romm	04 Sep 2008	Gristmill
My brother Dave lives in Minneapolis and has been interviewing RNC delegates. Here is Barb Davis White in her own words (audio stream here): White: My name is Barb Davis White and I'm running for the 5th Congressional District against Keith Ellison for the United States House of Representatives, which is called Congress. Romm: Where are you on global warming? White: Well, global warming really has not been proven. There are 30,000 scientists, including Al Gore's ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, Congress, elections, interview, Minnesota, politics (all these topics)

Get smarter Congressional Dems get smart on pushing 'all of the above' energy vote	Joseph Romm	03 Sep 2008	Gristmill
Looks like the Congressional Democrats are shrewd enough to take on the GOP big lie that Republicans in Congress actually believe in an 'all of the above' energy policy. Greenwire reports today that 'Democrats plot strategy for putting GOP on its heels' ($ub. req'd): Democrats plan to return to Washington and the campaign trail next week with a message on offshore drilling that they say will put Republicans on the defensive ... On Capitol Hill, congressional Democrats ...
Topics: Congress, energy, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

DNC: On your Markey Rep. Ed Markey talks about the Dems' strategy for energy legislation in the House	Kate Sheppard	28 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Yesterday, I talked to Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), chair of the House Select Committee for Energy Independence and Global Warming, about what to expect from the Democrats on energy legislation when Congress goes back into session next month. We also discussed the Dems' plans for climate and energy legislation next year:
Topics: climate, Congress, Democratic National Convention, Ed Markey, energy, Muckraker, politics, video (all these topics)

Tired of waiting for efficiency Our right to know about fuel-efficient tires	Eric de Place	22 Aug 2008	Gristmill
I'm always fascinated by the '1 percent solutions' to energy. It seems to me that in order to address both climate change and fossil fuel dependence, we'll need a few big structural changes, but we'll also need a lot of 1 percent solutions -- and maybe a bunch of quarter-percent solutions too. And the advantage of the 1 percent solutions is that they're often exceedingly easy; and so cheap that they actually put money in your pocket. So I enjoyed Cindy Skrzycki's co ...
Topics: Congress, energy, fuel efficiency, green living (all these topics)

'U-Turn Udall' and 'Big Oil Bob' Senate race in Colorado becomes a battle over energy issues	Kate Sheppard	21 Aug 2008	Gristmill
The energy debate is playing out in down-ticket races across the country, and Colorado's no exception. In the race to replace retiring U.S. Sen. Wayne Allard (R), Rep. Mark Udall (D) and former-Rep. Bob Schaffer (R) are duking it out over oil. Schaffer represented Colorado's fourth district from 1997 through 2003, and in 2004 he made a failed bid in the Republican Senatorial primary. Since then, he has served as vice-president for business development at Aspect En ...
Topics: advertising, Colorado, Congress, elections, energy, Muckraker, news, politics, video (all these topics)

More good stuff, some ugly 'Gang of 10,' part 3	Joseph Romm	20 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Part 2 began an analysis of the bipartisan compromise proposed by the "Gang of 10" senators, suggesting that their deal isn't so bad. The other evidence the deal isn't so bad is that the House GOP is threatening to refuse to vote for it. The good of the five-year extension of the renewable tax credits certainly beats the 'bad' of doubly de minimis drilling. But what about the rest of the deal? More good Offsets The $84 billion in investments in con ...
Topics: Congress, energy, legislation, politics, renewable energy, tax incentives (all these topics)

National Clean Energy Summit: The R-word Meetings about clean energy conspicuously fail to identify the main barrier to it	David Roberts	20 Aug 2008	Gristmill
There were two remarkable aspects of the National Clean Energy Summit: Federal policy recommendations from the varied speakers -- scientists, business types, politicians -- were largely in sync. In fact, I got sick of hearing the same policies touted over and over again: renewable tax credits, cap-and-trade, electricity grid improvements, efficiency standards, renewable mandates, increased R&D. It seems that there is broad agreement on what needs to be done. ...
Topics: Congress, energy, legislation, politics, renewable energy, tax incentives (all these topics)

The Twinkie lobby	David Roberts	15 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Photo: Nathan Pruzaniec I've been pondering writing something about this story in Politico, in which Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says he's fine with any energy bill that doesn't "raise taxes," which is Republicanese for revoking some of the billions in tax breaks and subsidies U.S. taxpayers provide oil companies. McConnell is well aware that this completely ties Dem hands, since the leadership in all its wisdom decided Dems need to live by PA ...
Topics: brilliance, Congress, funnies, oil and gas drilling, politics, shenanigans (all these topics)

Drill bits The internets weigh in on drilling	David Roberts	14 Aug 2008	Gristmill
A few bits and pieces from around the internets on the drilling issue. Rick Hertzberg has a piece on his New Yorker blog about arguments against drilling. He points out that most of the opportunistic Dem arguments against drilling used thus far -- it's too far out; it won't save us; it's gimmicky -- aren't particularly effective. He hones in on the one he thinks will work: We take all the risks. We pay all the costs. But we don't get all the benefits, such as ...
Topics: Congress, energy, mainstream media, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

All of the above minus one	David Roberts	14 Aug 2008	Gristmill
This is poison: If everyone agrees that we should do everything, why is it that we're spending so much time talking about drilling, and less time on other measures like conservation and alternatives? [Taylor Griffin, a spokesman for the McCain campaign] said because drilling is one area in energy policy where Obama and McCain disagree. "We're not talking about alternatives because we both support alternatives," he said. This is of cours ...
Topics: Congress, oil and gas drilling, politics, renewable energy, shenanigans (all these topics)

Republican rules The media will not tell the public the real story on the energy clash in Congress	David Roberts	13 Aug 2008	Gristmill
I'm not sure what's more astonishing, the current political drama around energy or the utter and complete failure of the media to portray it accurately. Let's recall what's happened over this past session. Congress had some 13 chances to support renewable energy, as bill after bill was put forward by Democrats. Republicans blocked them all. Now Republicans have gotten the idea in their head that drilling for oil in protected areas in the U.S. is a political winner, ...
Topics: Congress, mainstream media, oil and gas drilling, politics, renewable energy, shenanigans, tax incentives (all these topics)

Follow the coal money Boucher and Dingell biggest players in climate policy, biggest recipients of coal money	David Roberts	13 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Drop what you're doing and get thee to Follow the Coal Money, a new project from Appalachian Voices and Oil Change International. Modeled on Follow the Oil Money, it allows you to determine exactly how much coal money is going to your legislator (either by name or by zip code). I wouldn't exactly call the results surprising, but they do confirm what you suspect: Coal money buys lots of legislative protection and pork for the coal industry. A few notes: tho ...
Topics: campaign contributions, coal, Congress, politics (all these topics)

Notable quotable Drilling for Jesus	David Roberts	12 Aug 2008	Gristmill
'[Pelosi] is committed to her global warming fanaticism to the point where she has said that she's just trying to save the planet. We all know that someone did that over 2,000 years ago, they saved the planet -- we didn't need Nancy Pelosi to do that.' -- Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.)
Topics: Congress, politics, quotables, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

'I ... have never seen such a sneaky attack' Green groups and Dems outraged by Bush admin's plan to loosen species protections	Holly Richmond	12 Aug 2008	Gristmill
The Bush administration on Monday proposed major changes to the way the Endangered Species Act is enforced, asserting that federal agencies should be able to decide on their own whether projects like highways and dams would be harmful to endangered species, rather than having independent reviewers make the assessments. Here's a roundup of reactions, from Capitol Hill and beyond: Rep. Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.), chair of the House committee that oversees the Interior Dep ...
Topics: Congress, endangered species, environmental movement, politics, regulation (all these topics)

Let's handcuff the property cops Homeowner associations restrict eco-friendly practices in favor of aesthetics	Guest author	12 Aug 2008	Gristmill
This is a guest post from Stan Cox, lead scientist for the Land Institute in Salina, Kan. It comes to us via the Land Institute's Prairie Writers Circle. ----- Susana Tregobov dries clothes on a line behind her Maryland townhouse, saving energy and money. But now her homeowners association has ordered her to bring in the laundry. The crackdown came after a neighbor complained that the clothesline 'makes our community look like Dundalk,' a low-income part of ...
Topics: Congress, green living, local politics, placemaking, politics, state politics (all these topics)

Bluffing Republicans too sissy to shut down federal government over drilling	David Roberts	12 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Congressional Republicans -- and Newt Gingrich (wtf?) -- continue to threaten to shut down the federal government if Pelosi won't allow them an isolated up-or-down vote on oil drilling. I say: yes! Please, please, pleeease organize Congressional Republicans to stomp their feet and completely shut down the federal government because the majority leader won't give them exactly the vote they want, on the bill they want, when they want it -- a vote for boosting oil compan ...
Topics: Congress, oil and gas drilling, politics, shenanigans (all these topics)

Drumming up outrage Are Obama's energy panders as bad as McCain's?	David Roberts	06 Aug 2008	Gristmill
I think Kevin Drum is being too hard on Obama here. Obama and the entire Democratic Party are getting killed on energy right now. The pressure to do something is extraordinary. Obama is looking for concessions that can take some of the heat off without giving away the game, and in terms of concessions, opening the SPR and taxing windfall profits are two of the least offensive. You can dispute the political calculation -- maybe he should have doubled down and bet big ...
Topics: Barack Obama, Congress, energy, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Something for nothing Since offshore oil is de minimis, why shouldn't Obama and the Dems make a deal? Part 1	Joseph Romm	06 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Getting something for nothing is always a good idea. Kudos to Senator Obama and other progressives for understanding this. The key questions are: How much of a 'nothing' is ending the congressional moratorium on offshore drilling? How much of a 'something' can progressives get by way of a serious effort to end our oil addiction once and for all? Right now, it seems like conservatives are willing to hold their breath until they turn blue in the face before the ...
Topics: Congress, energy, legislation, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Meet the new alternative ... Guess which 'alternative energy' lobby is biggest?	David Roberts	05 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Between the start of the year and June 2008, the oil and gas industries spent $52.21 million lobbying Congress. Alternative energy industries spent $11.39 million, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. And look who's tops on the alternative energy lobbying pile, with more than double the expenditures of the next on the list: American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity: $1.87M National Biodiesel Board: $679,913 Solar Energy Industries Associ ...
Topics: biofuels, coal, Congress, lobbying, oil, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

House Republican deep thought of the day	David Roberts	05 Aug 2008	Gristmill
I've been trying to pick my favorite quote from the festival of fatuous puffery that is John Boehner's 'House Republican Uprising Live Blog.' I think I may have found a winner in this doozy from Marilyn Musgrave (R-Colo.): I went to the nearest gas station and talked to people pumping gas to see what the number one thing on their mind was, and they said it was the price of gas.
Topics: Congress, gas prices, politics, quotables (all these topics)

Our modern-day Eris House Republicans' magical thinking on oil prices	David Roberts	05 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Wow. House Republicans are now saying that their hissy fit cum frat party on the floor is lowering the price of oil. Not for the first time, I have to wonder: do they believe this? Do they really indulge in this kind of magical thinking? The oil price issue is an interesting political case. It's immensely influential in our daily economic life, but we have virtually no idea why it behaves the way it does. Oil is like the gods were for Greeks -- omnipresent, looming, ...
Topics: Congress, gas prices, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Going rates How much does it take to buy a protest on the floor of the House?	David Roberts	04 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Here's another interesting chart (via Josh Nelson via Open Secrets) showing the amount of oil and gas contributions to the House Republicans now engaging in pep rally theatrics on the floor of the House: Republican House Member 2006 2008 Rep. Lynn Westmoreland $0 $0 Rep. John Boehner $65,000 $0 Rep. Adam Putnam $0 $20,000 Rep. Roy Blunt $87,300 $98,900 Rep. Louie Gohmert $76,700 $29,850 Rep. Tom Price $0 $ ...
Topics: Congress, energy, oil and gas drilling, politics, US House of Representatives (all these topics)

Now they're ready The history of House Republicans on energy in the 110th Congress	David Roberts	04 Aug 2008	Gristmill
As you contemplate the House Republican spectacle today, wherein they protest the "Democrat five-week vacation" in the face of high gas prices, keep a few things in mind. The 109th Congress -- the first session of Bush's second term -- worked the least, and accomplished the least, of any Congress since the original do-nothing Congress of 1948. The Republicans totally botched it when they ran the place. Meanwhile, the 110th has worked its tail off, in the fa ...
Topics: Congress, energy, legislation, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

A pox on the House Republicans continue shenanigans in the Capitol	Kate Sheppard	04 Aug 2008	Gristmill
As Grist reported, Republicans miffed about Congress going on August recess without a vote on offshore drilling started a sit-in in the Capitol on Friday. The shenanigans continued until police escorted the tourists out of the chamber at 4:30 p.m., and GOP lawmakers went home for the night. 'Today is the 2008 version of the Boston Tea Party,' said Rep. John Shadegg (R-Ariz.). Missouri's Roy Blunt says: I'm not going home until you Show Me the drilling. Pho ...
Topics: Congress, Muckraker, news, oil and gas drilling, politics, shenanigans, video (all these topics)

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