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Being careful about the word 'voluntary' More on Bush's climate strategy	David Roberts	01 Jun 2007	Gristmill
My post yesterday said what needs to be said about Bush's "new" climate strategy, but this passage from Dana Milbank's hilarious column today is too good to pass up: 'Will the new framework consist of binding commitments or voluntary commitments?' asked CBS News's Jim Axelrod. 'In this instance, you have a long-term, aspirational goal,' [Bush environmental advisor Jim] Connaughton answered. Aspirational goal? Like having the body you want without die ...
Topics: climate, George Bush, politics (all these topics)

Hey, At Least He Pronounced It Right Bush announces climate plan, world squirms uncomfortably		01 Jun 2007	Daily Grist
Hey, At Least He Pronounced It Right Bush announces climate plan, world squirms uncomfortably The world gave George W. Bush lemons, and he made some dee-licious lemonade. Yesterday, Bush said the U.S. would take the lead on the climate issue, convening a series of meetings of the world's top 10 to 15 polluting nations and setting long-term goals for cutting emissions. Coming amid criticis ...
Topics: Angela Merkel, climate, George Bush, international politics, news (all these topics)

Bush's 'new climate strategy' Shockingly, it's the same as the old climate strategy	David Roberts	31 May 2007	Gristmill
Today's headlines are full of the news that President Bush is "unveiling a new climate strategy." If your immediate reaction is cynicism, well ... looks like you learned something over the last seven years. Let's look a little closer. In a speech today, Bush said he wants to convene a series of meetings of the 15 major GHG emitting countries to hammer out 'global emissions goals.' To give credit where it's due, there is considerable symbolic significance ...
Topics: climate, George Bush, international politics, politics (all these topics)

Use the Enforce, Kook Environmental enforcement has declined under Bush, says new report		25 May 2007	Daily Grist
Use the Enforce, Kook Environmental enforcement has declined under Bush, says new report Well, knock us over with a feather: since the Bush administration began running the joint, industries committing environmental violations have been investigated less, penalized less, and sued less, says a new report from watchdog group Environmental Integrity Project. The Department of Justice has filed few ...
Topics: air pollution, George Bush, news, politics, water pollution (all these topics)

Bush's dumb luck on emissions They went down because of random factors, not Bush	Joseph Romm	24 May 2007	Gristmill
U.S. carbon dioxide emissions dropped 1.3% in 2006, as the Energy Information Administration reported yesterday. President Bush immediately took credit: "We are effectively confronting the important challenge of global climate change through regulations, public-private partnerships, incentives, and strong economic investment." [Please, no laughing.] In spite of the fact that Bush has actually gutted programs aimed at the promoting clean energ ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, George Bush, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics (all these topics)

Bush 'responding' to Supreme Court Not exactly	David Roberts	14 May 2007	Gristmill
Wondering what to make of this? President Bush responded to a Supreme Court environmental ruling by settling on regulatory changes that don't need congressional approval, the White House said Monday. Bush is announcing the steps he is directing his administration to take in a Rose Garden appearance later Monday. Read on down a little bit: In his State of the Union address in January, Bush set a goal of reducing gas consumption by 20 percent over 10 years. Und ...
Topics: Big Ag, Big Oil, energy, energy efficiency, George Bush, litigation (all these topics)

Hey, That's Half the Battle Bush chats with Merkel and Barroso, agrees climate change is a problem		01 May 2007	Daily Grist
Hey, That's Half the Battle Bush chats with Merkel and Barroso, agrees climate change is a problem U.S. President George W. Bush met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and E.U. President Jose Manuel Barroso at the White House yesterday, chatting about international trade, air-travel policy, missile shields, and The Most Important Issue of Our Time. Though no climate action steps were agr ...
Topics: Angela Merkel, G8, George Bush, international politics, politics (all these topics)

Painful	David Roberts	23 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Bush at the Radio and TV Correspondents Dinner (green connection: ethanol joke!): Arianna Huffington has an amusing account of the event. (h/t: Hugg)
Topics: energy, ethanol, George Bush, green living, politics (all these topics)

Bush vs. Clinton on climate change Bush is working with a much stronger consensus	Andrew Dessler	19 Apr 2007	Gristmill
One argument in defense of George W. Bush's lack of action on climate change is some variation of this: 'Bill Clinton wasn't any better ... he never sent the Kyoto Protocol to the Senate.' This is true. But it also ignores one important fact. The science of climate change has improved dramatically since the mid-'90s. In its 1995 report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) summarized our knowledge about climate change by saying ... ... the balance o ...
Topics: Bill Clinton, climate, climate change mitigation, George Bush, IPCC, politics (all these topics)

G8: We really mean it on climate change this time Really	David Roberts	16 Apr 2007	Gristmill
The 33rd meeting of the G8 is happening in early June, in Germany. German Chancellor Angela Merkel -- perhaps in retaliation for the infamous backrub -- is determined to put climate change high on the agenda. Not surprisingly, the U.S. and Canada are working to water down the draft communique Merkel has put together. Somewhat surprisingly, Merkel -- backed by Tony Blair -- isn't backing down. Indeed, they seem to be ramping up the pressure on Bush. Will Bush's weakn ...
Topics: Angela Merkel, climate, climate change mitigation, European Union, George Bush, politics (all these topics)

But Now What? Bush withdraws controversial EPA nominations		13 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
But Now What? Bush withdraws controversial EPA nominations Earlier this month, we reported that President Bush was re-dangling three controversial names for key environmental positions in his administration, suggesting that he might appoint them while Congress was on a break. While he did manage to push one such recess appointment through last week -- Susan Dudley as White House regulations chief -- he has pulled the o ...
Topics: George Bush, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Bush (almost) blows Our prez nearly made a slip of the plug	Yolanda Crous	09 Apr 2007	Gristmill
The funniest news lede I've read in a long time: Credit Ford Motor Co. CEO Alan Mulally with saving the leader of the free world from self-immolation. Apparently, our befuddled prez was about to stick an electrical plug into the hydrogen tank of a Ford hydrogen-electric plug-in hybrid. This act, if completed, would have generated Hindenburg-esque bad publicity and probably made Cheney our next president. (Eep!) To make the save, Mulally apparently 'violated all th ...
Topics: cars, George Bush, gossip, hydrogen, politics (all these topics)

She Puts the Dud in Dudley Bush appoints anti-regulation advocate as top regulatory official		05 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
She Puts the Dud in Dudley Bush appoints anti-regulation advocate as top regulatory official Mere days ago, we mentioned that President Bush might give Congress the runaround by making recess appointments of industry-tied folk to top environmentally related positions in his administration. Well, that didn't take long. Meet Susan Dudley, the newly appointed head of the Office of Information and Regulatory ...
Topics: Congress, George Bush, news, politics, regulation (all these topics)

I do not think it means what you think it means	David Roberts	03 Apr 2007	Gristmill
President Bush "said he took climate change very seriously Tuesday, a day after the US Supreme Court ruled the government must regulate greenhouse gases." In other news, President Bush "said on Tuesday he planned no new action to impose caps on greenhouse gases blamed for global warming."
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, George Bush, greenhouse-gas emissions, litigation, politics (all these topics)

Nom de Doom Bush renominates controversial industry folk to environmental positions		02 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
Nom de Doom Bush renominates controversial industry folk to environmental positions President Bush is recycling -- nominees, that is. To fill three top environmental jobs in his administration, Bush has re-suggested three folks with ties to polluting industries, all of whom were blocked by Congress the first time they were nominated. William Wehrum, temporary-seeking-permanent administrator for the EPA's air office ...
Topics: George Bush, news, politics, regulation (all these topics)

The Bush administration: Bringing you third-party scientific reviews from online roleplaying pals You have to read this to believe it	David Roberts	30 Mar 2007	Gristmill
On Wednesday, the Inspector General's office at the Department of Interior released a report showing that a Bush appointee who lacked any background in natural science had "bullied, insulted, and harassed the professional staff of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to change documents and alter biological reporting regarding the Endangered Species Program." She had been "heavily involved with editing, commenting on, and reshaping ... scientific rep ...
Topics: endangered species, George Bush, politics, US Fish and Wildlife Service (all these topics)

Fuel Me Twice Bush, Big Auto agree that ethanol is the way of the future ... again		27 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Fuel Me Twice Bush, Big Auto agree that ethanol is the way of the future ... again Detroit's Big Three automakers cruised to the White House yesterday to plead their case for improving biofuels access and to remind the president that they're not so keen on that whole "improving fuel economy" idea. Bush played along by plugging a power cord into a Ford hydrogen concept car for the cameras ...
Topics: Big Auto, business, energy, ethanol, George Bush, news (all these topics)

One Giant Bleep for Mankind Bush, Brazil sign controversial biofuels pact		09 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
One Giant Bleep for Mankind Bush, Brazil sign controversial biofuels pact Faced with protests and anger at home? Why not escape to a place where you can take solace in ... protests and anger. President Bush is making few friends in Brazil, on the first stop of a Latin American tour that will see him visit four other countries. But he does have a big ol' friend in Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula ...
Topics: Brazil, energy, ethanol, George Bush, news, politics (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)

Tongue Wrestling In India, U.K., and U.S., climate change is cause for conflict		05 Jan 2007	Daily Grist
Tongue Wrestling In India, U.K., and U.S., climate change is cause for conflict Climate challenges erupted all over the globe this week. In India, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told a group of 5,000 scientists that the developing world "cannot afford to ape the West in terms of its environmentally wasteful lifestyle," adding that India must invest in alternative energy ...
Topics: Angela Merkel, climate, George Bush, Germany, India, news, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Must Not Be Any Oil There Bush creates world's largest marine protected area		16 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
Must Not Be Any Oil There Bush creates world's largest marine protected area Well, slap our ass and call us Sally: George W. Bush, the prez formerly known as the earth's worst enemy, created the largest protected marine area in the world yesterday when he designated the 1,200-mile-long Northwestern Hawaiian Islands chain and surrounding waters as a national monument. The region is home to some 7,000 marine species, at le ...
Topics: George Bush, Hawaii, news, oceans (all these topics)

Move Thyself: Birth of a semi-regular column Bush bails on his bike, but unlike Critical Mass riders, gets away scot free	Todd Hymas Samkara	27 Feb 2006	Gristmill
The British press is all atwitter today about what's likely the top story in cycling news. Remember back in July at the G8 summit in Scotland when President Bush, struggling to ride a bike, wave, and speak at the same time, ended up crashing into and injuring a police officer in full riot gear? Details of the incident were sketchy until now, as Bush and the ever-faithful Scott McClellan attempted to skirt embarrassment, but the official police report of the in ...
Topics: bikes, George Bush (all these topics)

Can you say "anthropogenic"? Bush dodges question about whether climate change is caused by humans	Lisa Hymas	07 Jun 2005	Gristmill
After making kissy-face in front of the press corps at the White House today, Bush and Blair took a couple of questions. One reporter asked Bush whether he believes global warming is an anthropogenic problem (without using any big words, of course): And, Mr. President, if I may, as well, on climate change -- you didn't talk about climate change -- do you believe that climate change is manmade and that you, personally, as the leader of the richest country in the world, ha ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, George Bush (all these topics)

Rhymes with "ditty" too	David Roberts	08 Nov 2004	Gristmill
The radio program 'Living On Earth' had some hack from the Wall Street Journal editorial page on, along with Grist contributor Bill McKibben, to discuss what Bush's victory means for the environment. �It's interesting (and like Shalini, what I mean by interesting is 'makes me reach for a noose'). �You can read the transcript here.
Topics: Bill McKibben, Politics, George Bush (all these topics)

Array of Hope Environmental leaders and thinkers on what comes next		03 Nov 2004	Main Dish
What do we do now? That's the question one early riser asked Grist in a letter to the editor right after the election results rolled in. Faced with another four years of the Bush administration -- an administration that has been roundly denounced as the most environmentally destructive in the history of the nation -- our correspondent asked: Where should environmentalists put their energies for the next four years ...
Topics: celebrity, George Bush, Nancy Pelosi, politics, United States (all these topics)

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