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Sign of the Times Bush will sign economic stimulus bill sans green incentives		11 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 11:09 AM on 11 Feb 2008 President Bush will sign an economic stimulus bill Wednesday, meaning you may have a check winging your way after tax time. Not included in the bill: funding for clean-energy credits and green jobs, which were dropped from the Senate version after narrowly failing to get enough votes. Undeterred, Democrats in the House of Representatives may introduce separate legislation this week tha ...
Topics: business, George Bush, legislation, news, politics (all these topics)

Letter Drip Scientists write to Bush and Pelosi asking for biofuel-policy reform		08 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 12:35 PM on 08 Feb 2008 In light of recent studies showing that biofuel production ain't good for the environment, 10 prominent ecologists and biologists have written to President Bush and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asking that the U.S. reform its biofuel-boosting policies. Seeing as the Bush administration has a track record of being very responsive to scientists' entreaties, we have no doubt that the mas ...
Topics: biofuels, energy, George Bush, Nancy Pelosi, news, politics (all these topics)

Bush: the uncompassionate, anti-technology president Dubious 2009 energy budget released	Joseph Romm	05 Feb 2008	Gristmill
On the heels of giving away the (decorative) centerpiece of his climate technology effort, NeverGen FutureGen, Bush released a heartless and mindless FY09 energy budget yesterday. Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.), chair of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, sent around an email on the President's Budget Request for FY2009 (I will post budget details later). Bingaman is 'pleased to see overall growth in the DOE budget, particularly in the area of basi ...
Topics: climate, energy, George Bush, politics, tech (all these topics)

At Least He Recycles Bush rehashes same ol' environmental ideas in final State of the Union speech		28 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 10:18 PM on 28 Jan 2008 In his last State of the Union address on Monday night, President Bush called for "an international agreement that has the potential to slow, stop, and eventually reverse the growth of greenhouse gases." But don't get excited -- he hasn't done a 180 on the Kyoto Protocol. "This agreement will be effective only if it includes commitments by every ma ...
Topics: George Bush, politics (all these topics)

We're Getting the Shakes President Bush asks OPEC to boost oil production		15 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 12:15 PM on 15 Jan 2008 President Bush, on a trip to Saudi Arabia, has urged the key member of OPEC to boost oil production. "Oil prices are very high, which is tough on our economy," said Bush. "I would hope, as OPEC considers different production levels, that they understand that if ... one of their biggest consumers' economy suffers, it will mean less purchases, less gas and oil sold." Tran ...
Topics: energy, George Bush, international politics, news, oil, politics, Saudi Arabia (all these topics)

DeSmogBlog owes Obama three apologies Obama is in no way 'George Bush Lite'	Joseph Romm	06 Jan 2008	Gristmill
I am a big fan of the climate website, DeSmogBlog. So I was shocked when, the day after his unprecedented victory in Iowa, DeSmogBlog gave Barack Obama 'the inaugural 2007 SmogMaker Award for blowing smoke on global warming.' Gimme a break. How could anyone win that award any year -- let alone in its inaugural year -- when George W. Bush is still president? [Not to mention a year in which Lomborg and Inhofe continue their influential disinformation compaigns!] A ...
Topics: Barack Obama, climate, elections, energy, George Bush, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

The year ahead What will it take to make 2008 great?	Joseph Romm	04 Jan 2008	Gristmill
The following guest post is by Rep. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.), originally published on Climate Progress. He is the co-author of Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy. ----- Now that our New Year's Eve party hats are put away, it's time to look to the next year in the battle against global warming. In the year 2007, some good things did indeed happen on this front. Measures significantly improving car mileage standards and promoting the growth of re ...
Topics: brilliance, carbon trading, climate, energy, George Bush, green living, innovation, politics, tech (all these topics)

Bush plays Baker, part V Why not Eilperin?	David Roberts	04 Jan 2008	Gristmill
After four separate posts bashing Peter Baker's craptastic WaPo piece, I come to a simple question: Why did they have Baker write this piece instead of their environmental reporter Juliet Eilperin? She's incredibly sharp, one of the best green reporters working today. I doubt she would have gone along with the spin as easily as Baker did. There are innocent explanations. Still, it smells bad. One can't help but suspect a sort of passive-aggressive bamboozlement.
Topics: George Bush, messaging, politics (all these topics)

Bush plays Baker, part IV Tom Carper totally knows the president	David Roberts	04 Jan 2008	Gristmill
(An on we go, in a series on the WaPo piece so bad it required numerous separate gripes.) Tom Carper would like you to know that he's a) committed on global warming, and b) tight with the president: People find all sorts of ways to lobby President Bush. Sometimes it comes in the form of a handwritten note slipped into his palm during a bill-signing ceremony. Sen. Thomas R. Carper (D-Del.) tried that last week when Bush signed energy legislation that will curb g ...
Topics: politics, climate, George Bush, messaging (all these topics)

Bush plays Baker, part III Krupp plays along	David Roberts	03 Jan 2008	Gristmill
My ongoing, borderline-obsessive series about how %$@! awful this Washington Post piece is continues. In this episode, we focus on Fred Krupp of Environmental Defense. I've tried to give Krupp the benefit of the doubt. The green movement needs somebody sucking up to corporations. (I say that with total sincerity.) But it seems pretty clear that Krupp has, like so many people involved in the Beltway clusterfuck, become more interested in ingratiating himself with Ser ...
Topics: George Bush, messaging, politics (all these topics)

Bush plays Baker, part II 'Environmentalists say' the WaPo should learn to distinguish rhetoric from reality	David Roberts	03 Jan 2008	Gristmill
In an ongoing series about the world-historical suckage of a recent WaPo piece, we come now to the difference between rhetoric and policy. I don't know about you, but when I see a headline like 'In Bush's Final Year, The Agenda Gets Greener,' I think, 'oh, the policy agenda is getting greener.' And that's probably what the White House WaPo's conservative owners reporter Peter Baker wants you to think. But if you read the entire piece closely, you realize your initial ...
Topics: George Bush, messaging, politics (all these topics)

Bush plays Baker, part I The Washington Post offers a late entry for Worst Story of the Year	David Roberts	03 Jan 2008	Gristmill
While I was on vacation, the Washington Post published one of the most craptastic pieces of journalism I've seen this year, a piece by the normally reputable Peter Baker called "In Bush's Final Year, The Agenda Gets Greener." Words can scarcely do it justice. A friend forwarded it in horror. If he'd said so, I would have believed it was a clever parody. I actually laughed out loud a few times. Every media-crit staple is there in full glory, including the r ...
Topics: George Bush, messaging, politics (all these topics)

Person of the Year Bush beats Gore, again!	Joseph Romm	20 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Until last week, this long-beloved annual tradition seemed to be a lock for one person -- Nobel laureate, itinerant educator, and media superstar Al Gore. Sadly, he only makes first runner-up this year. Like Time magazine, our Person of the Year is awarded to the person or group who "for better or for worse ... has done the most to influence the events of the year" in the climate arena. By single-handedly stopping any international action on climate a ...
Topics: George Bush, Al Gore, climate, politics (all these topics)

Hey, Look Over There! U.S., avoiding action at current climate meeting, announces new climate meeting		06 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 3:38 PM on 06 Dec 2007 President Bush has announced a climate-change meeting in Hawaii next month for 17 of the world's major greenhouse-gas emitters to talk about setting goals for curbing emissions. The meeting is a follow-up to an anticlimactic summit that Bush hosted in late September. Oddly enough, during the pivotal climate-change meeting going on in Bali right this red-hot minu ...
Topics: climate, George Bush, greenhouse-gas emissions, international politics, news, politics (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	27 Nov 2007	Gristmill
'Here is my guess, and I know that I'm right. I will bet my car, in fact. Bush will come out, this president when he leaves office, will come out in the next decade or so as a strong advocate on behalf of ending global warming. He will be ... he will have an environmentally conscious post presidency ...' -- MSNBC cable news host Tucker Carlson
Topics: climate, George Bush, quotables (all these topics)

I'm the President! No, I'm the President! George Bush fetes Al Gore in Oval Office		27 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 12:52 PM on 27 Nov 2007 Yesterday, George W. Bush fulfilled the U.S. president's traditional obligation to fete the winners of the Nobel Prize in the Oval Office -- including, of course, Peace Prize Laureate (and, in the minds of some, rightful inhabitant of said Oval Office) Al Gore. Awkward! The two men had a private 40-minute conversation in which they "talked about global warming -- the whole ti ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate, George Bush, news, politics (all these topics)

A dry eye in the House Why Bush's water-bill veto was actually a good idea	Grist	09 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Michael Grunwald, senior correspondent for Time Magazine and noted critic of the Army Corps of Engineers, says yesterday's historic override of President Bush's water-bill veto isn't worth celebrating -- despite what many environmental activists think. He was the toast of Congress earlier this year, but yesterday Bush was less popular. Photo: whitehouse.gov Hooray! The Everglades and coastal Louisana have been rescued! Activists and politicians alike are giddy o ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Congress, dumbassery, Florida, George Bush, legislation, Louisiana, water conflicts (all these topics)

Getting nervous Via Boucher, Bush signals willingness to sign onto (weak) mandatory carbon controls	David Roberts	08 Nov 2007	Gristmill
According to E&E (sub. rqd), Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Coal) says President Bush would sign a climate bill with mandatory carbon controls as long as it was, well, toothless: A House Democrat writing legislation to require greenhouse gas limits said today that White House officials have privately indicated that President Bush might sign such a bill, despite the administration's public stance against mandatory controls. Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.) told a business foru ...
Topics: climate, energy, George Bush, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Dipping His Veto in the Water Bush vetoes water bill, Congress likely to override		05 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 3:08 PM on 05 Nov 2007 True to his word, President Bush has vetoed a bill authorizing $23 billion in nationwide water projects. Chances are good that Congress will override his naysaying, perhaps even this week. Stay tuned. source:� The New York Times From the Archives The Tax of Life. People open to lifestyle changes, fuel taxes to address warming, says poll. Brine of the Times ...
Topics: George Bush, legislation, news, politics, water conflicts (all these topics)

Nuke Rebuke Research panel discourages presidential plan for U.S. nuclear-waste reprocessing		30 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 2:17 PM on 30 Oct 2007 A 17-member panel of researchers from the National Academy of Sciences released a report yesterday discouraging President Bush from continuing on his quest to resume U.S. nuclear waste reprocessing. The researchers said the president's proposed Global Nuclear Energy Partnership plan has not been adequately peer reviewed and relies on unproven technology. Instead, the pan ...
Topics: energy, George Bush, National Academy of Sciences, news, nuclear power, scientific research (all these topics)

Angling for Love in All the Wrong Places Bush touts sport-fishing executive order and migratory-bird conservation plan		22 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 8:35 AM on 22 Oct 2007 President Bush this weekend speechified and photo-op'ed for the environment, specifically courting the hunting and angling crowd through a fishing trip and wildlife refuge visit touting an executive order for sport fishing and conservation measures for migratory birds. The president's migratory-bird plan involves asking Congress to increase tax ...
Topics: fishing, George Bush, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	16 Oct 2007	Gristmill
'I'm interested in good policy. Kyoto, I thought, was bad policy.'-- George W. Bush
Topics: climate, George Bush, politics, quotables (all these topics)

'Technology, technology, blah, blah, blah' Bush climate speech follows Luntz playbook	Joseph Romm	29 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Bush has given us a new drinking game: Down a shot whenever the President uses the word 'technology' in a climate speech. You'd get 19 shots for yesterday's 21 minute speech! As predicted, Bush closely follows the Frank Luntz playbook on how to seem like you care about the climate when you don't. Bush stated the basic do-nothing message well: Our investments in research and technology are bringing the world closer to a remarkable breakthrough -- an age of clean en ...
Topics: climate, energy, George Bush, politics, tech (all these topics)

Bush climate summit: Greenwashing vs. myth-busting Foreign media take a more discerning look at Bush's climate meetings this week	Joseph Romm	29 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Once again, the foreign media is not fooled by Bush's PR stunt, while the U.S. media buys the White House line. The U.K.'s The Independent labeled this a 'Greenwashing Climate Summit' in its headline, and opened their story with: For the first time in 16 years, a major environmental conference opens in Washington, hosted by the Bush administration. But no concrete results are expected, and that -- say European participants -- is the point of this high-level meeting. ...
Topics: climate, energy, George Bush, international politics, politics (all these topics)

Man on Emissions U.S. summit concludes with no progress to speak of		28 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 5:47 PM on 28 Sep 2007 At the conclusion of a two-day U.S.-hosted climate summit of the world's major emitters, George W. Bush announced that he's been faking his climate-change laggardness all along, and signed on to reduce greenhouse gases in various planet-saving-while-still-economy-boosting ways. Ha ha ha! Sob. No, just as expected, Bush said what he always says -- voluntary measures will save the world! goals are ...
Topics: climate, dumbassery , George Bush, international politics, news, politics (all these topics)

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