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Headline	Author	Published	Section
RNC: Beaming Bush In convention address via satellite, out-going prez calls for offshore drilling	Kate Sheppard	02 Sep 2008	Gristmill
President George Bush just addressed the convention via satellite from the White House, after deciding coming to the convention during Hurricane Gustav might not be the best plan. The crowd was pretty enthusiastic about the president's address, despite hard feelings among plenty of people here about Bush's legacy. Bush made a joke about how voting for McCain is 'trading up.' And he made sure to talk up McCain's pro-drilling stance: 'He will lift the ban for American ...
Topics: George Bush, Muckraker, news, politics, Republican National Convention (all these topics)

DNC: Goodnight Bush Grist talks to the authors of a parody hailing the end of Bush's reign	Kate Sheppard	27 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Many people are familiar with the children's book Goodnight Moon. They might not be familiar with Goodnight Bush, the unauthorized parody hailing the coming end of the Bush presidency. In it, authors Erich Origen and Gan Golan, both of California, ponder the many things the Bush administration's rule could have said 'goodnight' to. 'Good night earth? ... Good night old growth trees?' it asks. I found the pair selling their books here in Denver, and asked Origen wha ...
Topics: books, Democratic National Convention, George Bush, Muckraker, politics, video (all these topics)

Tanks, but no tanks Bush to lift executive ban on offshore drilling signed by his father	Kate Sheppard	14 Jul 2008	Gristmill
President George Bush will announce this afternoon that he is lifting the executive ban on offshore drilling that has been in place since his father, George H.W. Bush, signed an executive order as president in 1990. The move is mostly symbolic, however. Unless Congress repeals its long-standing ban on offshore drilling, nothing will change. The executive order Bush intends to repeal bans oil companies from exploratory drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf. L ...
Topics: George Bush, Muckraker, news, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Summit like it hot G8 leaders head to Hokkaido where Bush and his sherpa will provide climate guidance	Kate Sheppard	02 Jul 2008	Gristmill
On Monday, George W. Bush will travel to Hokkaido, Japan, for his eighth and final G8 summit, where climate change is likely to be the subject of heated (ahem) talks. At last year's meeting, leaders agreed to seriously consider a goal of cutting global greenhouse-gas emissions 50 percent by 2050. But the Bush administration continues to resist mandatory targets, and in a speech on Wednesday, Bush made sure to again emphasize 'technologies' over regulation. 'I'll ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, G8, George Bush, international treaties, Muckraker, news, politics (all these topics)

White House covers Johnson Bush invokes executive privilege to shield EPA administrator from subpoena	Kate Sheppard	20 Jun 2008	Gristmill
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee was set to vote today to hold U.S. EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson and Susan Dudley of the White House Office of Management and Budget in contempt of Congress for failing to turn over documents related to recent controversial decisions on smog and California's request for an emissions waiver. But it appears their friend in the White House swooped in this morning to block the committee's subpoenas for those docum ...
Topics: George Bush, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Feeling the Heat Bush administration put on the defensive over climate change	Lisa Hymas	09 Feb 2007	Muckraker
After six years of dodging the climate issue, the Bush administration is finally having to face it head on. They aren't changing policy -- don't be silly! -- but they are changing rhetoric. Bush is changing his climate talk, but not his walk. Photo: Whitehouse.gov Over the past month, climate change has become impossible for the White House to ignore: more than 2,500 of the world's top climate ...
Topics: climate, George Bush, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

If at First You Don't Succeed, Go Negative Bush campaign tries to trash Kerry's environmental record	Amanda Griscom	19 Aug 2004	Muckraker
The wrestler in chief. Photo: White House. Over the past few weeks of Presidential WrestleMania MMIV, the Bush campaign has fired off more than a dozen press releases about John Kerry's policies on energy, nuclear-waste storage, forest and water protections, and other environmental issues -- a hodgepodge of smears, exaggerations, and obfuscations intended to besmirch ...
Topics: elections, George Bush, messaging, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Gadfly in the Ointment Enviros berate Bush apologist for inaccurate L.A. Times op-ed	Amanda Griscom	17 Oct 2003	Muckraker
On Tuesday, the Los Angeles Times published an editorial by the widely known environmental gadfly Gregg Easterbrook -- a senior editor at the New Republic and a fellow at the Brookings Institution -- who set out to roast (or rather deep-fry) critics of the Bush administration's environmental record. He dismissed charges made by everyone from the Natural Resources Defense Council to ...
Topics: George Bush, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Bush Attacked on Climate Change Read the letter sent by 11 state attorneys general		17 Jul 2002	Muckraker
On July 17, 2002, 11 state attorneys general (all of them Democrats) sent the following letter to President Bush, criticizing him for failing to impose strong federal measures to limit emissions of greenhouse gases and control global warming. (You may also download a PDF copy of the letter by clicking here.) The Honorable George W. Bush The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington, D.C. ...
Topics: climate, energy, George Bush, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Sweet Georgie green?	Ben White	16 Sep 1999	Muckraker
Dubya. Texas Gov. George W. Bush may not be about to sit down and pen a sequel to Al Gore's environmental manifesto Earth in the Balance, but he has done something several other GOP presidential candidates appear reluctant to do: acknowledge the existence of global warming. On May 12, Bush told a news conference in Austin: "I believe there is global warming." So, what brought Bush to this dramatic realization? Could it have been hi ...
Topics: agriculture, George Bush, industrial ag, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Bird in the Hand Worth Two for Bush?	Ben White	02 Jun 1999	Muckraker
While you were smoothing on suntan lotion or stoking the barbecue this weekend, Texas state legislators were madly finishing up work before their midnight May 31 deadline. Gov. George W. Bush's tax cuts and education initiatives got most of the attention, but we kept our gaze trained on the environmental bills likely to come up in debate as "Dubya" leaves the friendly confines of Austin and hits the presidential campaign tra ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, George Bush, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, mining, Muckraker, politics, renewable energy, Washington (all these topics)

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