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A bird in the Hannity McCain and Palin talk energy on with Fox's Sean Hannity	Kate Sheppard	09 Oct 2008	Gristmill
In an interview Wednesday with Fox News' Sean Hannity, Republican presidential candidate John McCain again suggested that he's willing to reevaluate his opposition to allowing drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. 'At least because Gov. Palin is so persuasive, I would like to come to Alaska. I haven't been there in many years anyway, and maybe I'll agree to go visit that area and have a look,' said McCain, responding to a question from Hannity about the dif ...
Topics: elections, energy, John McCain, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08, Sarah Palin, video (all these topics)

Let's talk about caps, baby Enviros cheer debate talk about climate and energy, but want more details	Kate Sheppard	08 Oct 2008	Gristmill
Say what you may about last night's debate, but it was anything but boring for enviros. Even if the candidates largely recycled preexisting talking points on energy and climate, the mere fact that both issues got top billing in a presidential debate was an historic first. 'What strikes me as important is that energy has risen to the top of the list in terms of issues that people are concerned about right now. It's really energy, the economy, health care, and the w ...
Topics: Barack Obama, climate, elections, energy, John McCain, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Put your money where his mouth is Why did McCain sell out to Big Oil? Ask Charles Keating	Joseph Romm	08 Oct 2008	Gristmill
John McCain's new coziness with Big Oil is in many respects just a replay of his old coziness with Charles Keating. In both cases, money and access bought influence. Let's start with oil. Last month, Time reported that McCain tapped a 'prominent Washington lobbyist,' William E. Timmons, Sr., to run his transition, should he win the election. Who does Timmons and Company lobby for? As of this year, they are getting about $100,000 a quarter from the American Petroleu ...
Topics: Big Oil, campaign contributions, elections, John McCain, lobbying, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

One swing voter, swung Ingrid Jackson's question about climate change put candidates on the spot	Kate Sheppard	08 Oct 2008	Gristmill
For the first time in this year's presidential debates, the two candidates were asked point-blank about what they would do to address climate change in the first two years of their administration. Ingrid Jackson asks the candidates about environmental issues. This morning, Grist caught up with the young woman who asked the question -- Ingrid Jackson, 30, a senior psychology major at Tennessee State University in Nashville and a Children Services Officer ...
Topics: Barack Obama, climate, energy, John McCain, Muckraker, politics, presidential race 08, video (all these topics)

'Safe or disposable or something like that' McCain mystified by Obama's concerns over nuclear	David Roberts	07 Oct 2008	Gristmill
Besides Obama's prioritization of energy, there was another particularly striking moment in the debate. (And I'm not talking about McCain referring to Obama as "that one.") In the midst of an answer on climate change, McCain said: Now, how -- what's -- what's the best way of fixing [climate change]? Nuclear power. Sen. Obama says that it has to be safe or disposable or something like that. Look, I was on Navy ships that had nuclear power plants. Nu ...
Topics: climate change, energy, John McCain, nuclear power, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Energy first Obama names energy as first administration priority	David Roberts	07 Oct 2008	Gristmill
The candidates have put forth ambitious proposals on a number of issues, but one of the great unanswered questions of the race has been what each would prioritize in office. The first policy initiative undertaken by the new president will benefit from a sense of first-term energy and momentum. Depending on what happens in ensuing years, there could be no choice about what becomes Nos. 2 or 3. Circumstances tend to intervene. So what's that crucial first priority? T ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, energy, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08, video (all these topics)

Climate's brief turn in the spotlight Obama and McCain asked directly about climate change at debate	Kate Sheppard	07 Oct 2008	Gristmill
The second 2008 presidential debate included a single, pointed question on global climate change from an audience member, but that didn't stop both candidates from working the issue of energy independence into their responses to all sorts of questions throughout the 90-minute faceoff. By and large, John McCain and Barack Obama stuck to their scripts on energy, arguing that the nation must invest more in alternative and renewable energy sources ... and rely ...
Topics: Barack Obama, climate change, energy, John McCain, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Debate and switch Enviros suggest questions for Tuesday's townhall-style debate	Kate Sheppard	06 Oct 2008	Gristmill
Eleven days after their first matchup, John McCain and Barack Obama will meet again in Nashville, Tenn., on Tuesday night for a 'townhall format' debate. NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw will be the moderator, but it will be crowd members asking the questions, all of whom are supposedly undecided voters. There will be between 80 and 120 of these undecided voters in the audience; Brokaw will select about 15 of them to ask their questions. Chances are slim that any glob ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, John McCain, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

October surprises Enviro news from the presidential campaign trail	Kate Sheppard	06 Oct 2008	Gristmill
The New Republic looks at Sarah Palin's record as governor of Alaska, focusing on toxic waste and the health of the state's residents. The state has a rate of birth-defects twice the national average, and many believe it's because of the 'toxic stew' from the byproducts of mining and energy development like arsenic, mercury, and lead. Like other political leaders in the state, Palin has prioritized industry over environmental protection for years, resisting measures ...
Topics: coal, elections, ethanol, John McCain, Muckraker, news, oil and gas drilling, politics, presidential race 08, Sarah Palin (all these topics)

The scariest thing John McCain has ever said McCain looks to Palin for advice on energy	Joseph Romm	03 Oct 2008	Gristmill
John McCain told NPR this week that, regarding Governor Palin, he has 'turned to her advice many times in the past ... particularly on energy issues.' Many? This would be especially scary when you consider that few people in the country are more misinformed on energy than Sarah Palin, the fungible candidate, a woman ... who continued 'to peddle bogus [energy] statistics three days after the original error was pointed out by independent fact-checkers'; who tol ...
Topics: elections, energy, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08, Sarah Palin (all these topics)

Politics and the Dinner Table Weighing Obama's and McCain's stances on food and farm policy	Tom Philpott	03 Oct 2008	Victual Reality
Will the next president be tough enough to defy the wishes of agribusiness? Apologies to Grant Wood Last month at Slow Food Nation, Michael Pollan made an interesting point about food policy and presidential politics. Food issues won't likely play much of a role during the campaign's stretch run, Pollan said, but the winning candidate will almost certainly be forced to confront ...
Topics: ag policy, agriculture, Barack Obama, food, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08, Victual Reality (all these topics)

VP debate: The question of climate change Watch the video and read the transcript	Grist	03 Oct 2008	Gristmill
Last night's vice presidential debate featured an important exchange on climate change. Grist is posting the video and transcript excerpt below: Moderator Gwen Ifill's question to Sarah Palin: 'Governor, I'm happy to talk to you in this next section about energy issues. Let's talk about climate change. What is true and what is false about what we have heard, read, discussed, debated about the causes of climate change?' Here's the transcript of this section of the debat ...
Topics: Barack Obama, climate, elections, energy, Joe Biden, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08, Sarah Palin, video (all these topics)

Debating the VP debate Rate the energy and climate quotes on Ameritocracy	Grist	02 Oct 2008	Gristmill
As Ashley Braun noted in an earlier post, Grist recommends checking out Ameritocracy.com and participating in their unique approach to rating the debate. Grist recommends the climate and energy questions in particular. Here's one on climate change:
Topics: Barack Obama, Joe Biden, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08, Sarah Palin (all these topics)

Go tell it on the mountain Will the push to open Yucca Mountain shift Nevada toward Obama?	Kate Sheppard	01 Oct 2008	Gristmill
The Bush administration is pushing full speed ahead with plans to store nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain -- and that could affect the presidential race in the battleground state of Nevada, where John McCain and Barack Obama are in a dead heat. Last month, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission agreed to review the federal government's license application for the site, where it wants to store spent fuel from nuclear plants around the U.S. as well as military nuclear w ...
Topics: Barack Obama, John McCain, presidential race 08, nuclear power, energy, politics, Muckraker (all these topics)

'There are man's activities that can be contributed to the issues that we're dealing with now' More Couric and Palin, on drilling and climate change	David Roberts	30 Sep 2008	Gristmill
More excerpts from the Couric interview with Palin, on subjects including drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The trademark borderline-incoherence is in full effect: Here's the transcript. Here's the part on climate change, where she tries to back off or at least muddy up her skepticism:Couric: Is it man-made, though in your view?Palin: You know there are -- there are man's activities that can be contributed to the issues that we're dealing with now ...
Topics: video, John McCain, climate, Arctic Refuge, Sarah Palin, presidential race 08, elections, politics (all these topics)

McOops McCain claims U.S. has 'the world's largest oil reserves'	Kate Sheppard	30 Sep 2008	Gristmill
John McCain did an interview via satellite yesterday with WSYX ABC News in Columbus, Ohio, in which he claimed that the United States has the world's largest oil reserves. You can watch the video, or here's a transcript of the relevant section: Reporter: Now, some say it would be health care, some say it's the war. To you, what is the single biggest issue for America if you become president? McCain: I think the single biggest issue is to get our economy goin ...
Topics: oil, John McCain, elections, presidential race 08, energy, politics, news, Muckraker (all these topics)

'No one can be opposed to alternate energy' Debate part 1: McCain tells the truth and lies at the same time	Joseph Romm	29 Sep 2008	Gristmill
Let me briefly hit the big picture on the debate. The two insta polls out, from CBS and CNN, show that McCain lost by a large margin, by 13 percent or so. That large a gap means independents in particular didn't like his performance (by 22 percent in this poll). And that is no big surprise since for independents, who fundamentally don't like partisan politics -- that's why they aren't a member of either party -- repeatedly showing contempt for one's opponent is a h ...
Topics: greenwashing, John McCain, energy, Barack Obama, presidential race 08, elections, politics (all these topics)

Be mine McCain campaign releases contrived ads promoting coal	Kate Sheppard	29 Sep 2008	Gristmill
The McCain and Obama campaigns have been bickering for the past week about who loves coal more. Today the McCain campaign released new coal-happy radio ads in Colorado, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. The ads claim that 'clean coal means cleaner air,' but 'Obama-Biden and their liberal allies oppose clean coal.' In reality, Obama has been a consistent supporter of coal with carbon capture and sequestration since the beginning of his legislative career, to the ch ...
Topics: coal, advertising, John McCain, Barack Obama, presidential race 08, elections, politics, news, Muckraker, offshore drilling (all these topics)

Job mentality Where does McCain get his claim that nuclear will create 700,000 jobs?	David Roberts	29 Sep 2008	Gristmill
In this post, I questioned John McCain's claim that building 45 new nuclear reactors between now and 2030 would create 700,000 new jobs. I couldn't find any numbers to back the claim up, and plenty of numbers that cast doubt on it. I contacted the campaign, and they sent along a 2004 study called "U.S. Job Creation Due to Nuclear Power Resurgence in the United States," co-produced by the DOE's Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory an ...
Topics: elections, energy, politics, presidential race 08, John McCain, nuclear power, economy, green jobs (all these topics)

Debate: spending	David Roberts	27 Sep 2008	Gristmill
Last night moderator Jim Lehrer pressed the candidates about what spending priorities they would postpone or cancel in response to the financial crisis (a bit of framing I find maddening). In the heat of the debate I was irritated with Obama for not countering the frame directly. Going back and watching, though, he did seem to stick to his guns on certain important investments. Watch: Here's McCain's answer to the same question: Don't miss the analysis of ...
Topics: elections, politics, presidential race 08, John McCain, Barack Obama, video (all these topics)

Question	David Roberts	27 Sep 2008	Gristmill
Will McCain's 'spending freeze' include spending on nuclear power and clean coal?
Topics: politics, elections, presidential race 08, John McCain (all these topics)

Debate: Green issues largely sidelined in first debate Energy security came up frequently, but climate change only mentioned in passing	Grist	26 Sep 2008	Gristmill
The first presidential debate between Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama focused mainly on national security issues and the economic crisis/Wall Street bailout package. But energy issues came up a few times during the debate, with McCain and Obama squabbling over the details of how the country could achieve greater energy security. Grist's David Roberts and Kate Sheppard live-blogged the debate. Here are their posts: * The big picture on energy * McC ...
Topics: politics, presidential race 08, elections, John McCain, Barack Obama (all these topics)

Debate: The big picture on energy Candidates spar on who has most more comprehensive vision	Kate Sheppard	26 Sep 2008	Gristmill
Obama said that we 'have to have an energy policy to deal with not just Russia' but with other not-so-friendly regimes. He also said the United States should increase 'domestic production, and yes, offshore drilling ... but we only have 3 percent of the world's oil .. we can't drill our way out of the problem.' Obama said that our plan should include 'wind, solar, yes, nuclear, clean-coal' and hit on McCain for voting against renewables numerous times over his 26 year ...
Topics: presidential race 08, elections, Muckraker, politics, John McCain, Barack Obama (all these topics)

Debate: concessions	David Roberts	26 Sep 2008	Gristmill
Okay, Obama tags McCain for voting against renewable energy 23 times, which is fine. But in the process he concedes offshore drilling, he concedes nuclear, he concedes clean coal.Why play on your opponents' ground? Over and over again, Obama starts out by conceding and then backing away. It comes off as defensive. Argh.
Topics: politics, presidential race 08, elections, John McCain, Barack Obama (all these topics)

Debate: fact-checking	David Roberts	26 Sep 2008	Gristmill
Check out ThinkProgress for some pretty amazing real-time fact-checking of this debate. And more at washingtonpost.com, Factcheck.org and Politifact.com.
Topics: politics, presidential race 08, elections, John McCain, Barack Obama (all these topics)

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