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Nukes to me More on the nuclear portion of McCain's big climate speech	Kate Sheppard	13 May 2008	Gristmill
What's the deal with John McCain's nuclear love affair? It's a question on many people's minds after the candidate's big climate speech yesterday. While McCain has argued repeatedly that he's opposed to subsidies for the nuclear industry, he stresses the need to support the nuclear industry and fund nuclear R&D. The most recent incarnation of his Climate Stewardship Act, introduced in January 2007, would authorize more than $3.7 billion in federal subsidies fo ...
Topics: climate, elections, John McCain, Muckraker, news, nuclear power, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

McCain's answers A Q&A on John McCain's climate platform, issued by his campaign	David Roberts	13 May 2008	Gristmill
The following is a Q&A on John McCain's climate platform, released on Monday by the McCain campaign. I'm posting it here because it gets into more detail than any other published material I've seen. ----- Q&A: John McCain's Climate Platform How does cap-and-trade work? Cap-and-trade is a mechanism that would set a limit on greenhouse-gas emissions (GHG) and create permits or rights to emit equal to the limit on GHG emissions. Entities that are ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, climate equity, John McCain, national security, politics (all these topics)

McCain's offsets What would the use of carbon offsets mean for McCain's climate policy?	David Roberts	13 May 2008	Gristmill
To me the most striking element of McCain's just-released carbon cap-and-trade plan is that it would, at least at the outset, allow regulated entities to achieve 100 percent of their emission reductions through the purchase of domestic or international offsets. By way of comparison, the Lieberman-Warner climate bill headed for the floor of the Senate caps the contribution of offsets at 15 percent, and requires that all the offsets be from domestic projects. This is a ...
Topics: carbon offsets, carbon trading, climate, John McCain, politics (all these topics)

BRIC douse McCain waters down language on climate dealings with China & India	Kate Sheppard	12 May 2008	Gristmill
The original text of John McCain's Monday climate speech raised the specter of economic penalties for developing countries if they don't join international climate efforts, but the candidate dropped that reference when actually delivering the address. As the Associated Press puts it: The GOP presidential contender ... prodded China and India -- two major emitters of the greenhouse gases blamed for the planet's warming -- to join the effort, although he muted planne ...
Topics: climate, elections, John McCain, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Blustery irony Anti-wind McCain delivers climate remarks at foreign wind company	Joseph Romm	12 May 2008	Gristmill
Conservative presidential candidate Sen. John McCain chose a clever but ultimately hypocritical location for his big climate speech. I hope the media aren't fooled by his ironic choice of wind turbine company Vestas as the backdrop, but I have little doubt they will run enticing photos and videos of wind turbines. McCain, however, does not deserve to be linked to such images. I would title the speech 'Not the man for the job' (see 'No climate for old men'). Let's be ...
Topics: energy, John McCain, messaging, politics, wind power (all these topics)

McCain speech reactions Enviros respond to McCain's new climate plan	Kate Sheppard	12 May 2008	Gristmill
John McCain unveiled his plans to address global warming in a speech Monday afternoon in Portland, Ore. The candidate called climate change a 'test of foresight, of political courage, and of the unselfish concern that one generation owes to the next,' and called for a cap-and-trade system to drastically reduce the country's greenhouse-gas emissions. John McCain. Photo: Matthew Chastain Wright 'Whether we call it 'climate change' or 'global warming,' in the ...
Topics: climate, elections, John McCain, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Speech, speech Text of McCain climate speech	Grist	12 May 2008	Gristmill
Here's text of the climate speech GOP presidential candidate John McCain gave today in Portland, Ore., his most major address on the issue to date. ----- Thank you all very much. I appreciate the hospitality of Vestas Wind Technology. Today is a kind of test run for the company. They've got wind technicians here, wind studies, and all these wind turbines, but there's no wind. So now I know why they asked me to come give a speech. Every day, when there are no reporters a ...
Topics: climate, energy, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

McCain's targets Emission reduction targets proposed by McCain are insufficient but squarely in the mainstream	David Roberts	12 May 2008	Gristmill
Here is the schedule of targets John McCain has proposed for his cap-and-trade program: 2012: Return emissions to 2005 levels (18 percent above 1990 levels) 2020: Return emissions to 1990 levels (15 percent below 2005 levels) 2030: 22 percent below 1990 levels (34 percent below 2005 levels) 2050: 60 percent below 1990 levels (66 percent below 2005 levels) The two things to note about these targets: They are insufficient based on the latest science. ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions, John McCain, politics (all these topics)

'There's a better way' New McCain climate ad aimed at independent voters	Kate Sheppard	12 May 2008	Gristmill
John McCain released a new television advertisement today to accompany his big climate policy speech in Portland, Ore., this afternoon. Here's the ad: The ad illustrates McCain's attempts to appeal to independents; climate change is a key area where he believes he can make inroads with voters outside the Republican party. Note these lines in particular: 'One extreme thinks high taxes and crippling regulation is the solution. Another denies the problem even exis ...
Topics: climate, elections, John McCain, messaging, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

McCain's climate plan Republican candidate's climate proposals better than expected but still behind the curve	David Roberts	11 May 2008	Gristmill
On Monday, John McCain will deliver a speech on climate change from Portland, Oregon. In it he will lay out the framework for climate policy under a McCain administration. After a primary spent shoring up his credentials among the Republican base, this is the beginning of his general election strategy: Operation I'm Not Bush. (One important note: the speech is not on energy. McCain will be delivering a major speech on energy in a few weeks, probably early June, wherei ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Green Old Party? McCain to unveil new climate plan		11 May 2008	News
Posted at 10:32 PM on 11 May 2008 GOP presidential candidate John McCain is slated to unveil his plans to address global warming in a speech Monday afternoon in Portland, Ore., where he'll call climate change a "test of foresight, of political courage, and of the unselfish concern that one generation owes to the next." McCain will lay out a series of goals for gradually reducing carbon emissions to 60 percent below 1990 levels by the y ...
Topics: climate, elections, John McCain, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

McCain to endorse Lieberman-Warner? Candidate tips his hand at New Jersey event	Kate Sheppard	11 May 2008	Gristmill
In his remarks in Jersey City, N.J., on Friday, GOP presidential contender John McCain appeared to offer an off-handed endorsement of the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act. 'I hope it will pass,' he told the crowd, 'and I hope the entire Congress will join in supporting it and the president of the United States would sign it.' While he's offered tepid support for the bill before, he's hesitated to fully endorse it and has suggested that he'd like to see more sub ...
Topics: climate, John McCain, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics (all these topics)

Nuclear pork: enough is enough No more subsidies for nuclear power, McCain et al	Joseph Romm	10 May 2008	Gristmill
Once your power source has reached, say, 10 percent of the electricity grid, let alone 20 percent, it should be time to cut the cord to government funding. Yet after more than $70 billion dollars in direct subsidies, billions more in insurance subsidies, plus another $13 billion available through the energy policy act of 2005, Sen. McCain and others still feel that climate legislation must not merely create a price for carbon dioxide that would advantage all carbon-free ...
Topics: energy, insanity, John McCain, nuclear power, politics (all these topics)

Gearing up for an eco-week McCain kicks off series of environmental events with address in N.J.	Kate Sheppard	09 May 2008	Gristmill
John McCain gave a campaign speech in New Jersey today in which he touched on environmental issues and talked up his record in that area. 'There is no doubt our environment is globally challenged,' McCain said in a stop at the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, N.J. 'I'm proud of my environmental record.' But as some enviros in the state were quick to point out, that record is mixed at best (take, for example, his lifetime League of Conservation Voters score of ...
Topics: climate, elections, John McCain, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Straight as a circle Big Oil's crooked talk on profits	Joseph Romm	08 May 2008	Gristmill
Has the oil industry borrowed the (laughable) tagline of presidential candidate John McCain? As Fox Business reported last Friday: The American Petroleum Institute took out a full-page ad in USA Today, and other major media were tapped this week to provide 'straight talk on earnings.' The earnings that need 'straight talk': ExxonMobil's $11 billion quarterly profit, and Chevron's $5.2 billion quarterly profit. (Note to Big Oil: When Fox doesn't give your spin fav ...
Topics: Big Oil, business, energy, John McCain, lying liars, oil (all these topics)

McCain: We went to war for oil	David Roberts	07 May 2008	Gristmill
In '91, that is! Not in 2003. No sir.
Topics: energy, John McCain, lying liars, oil, politics (all these topics)

McCain campaign gets in on the anti-intellectualism	David Roberts	06 May 2008	Gristmill

Topics: insanity, John McCain, oil, politics (all these topics)

Nukes for all McCain calls for 700+ new nuclear plants costing $4 trillion	Joseph Romm	06 May 2008	Gristmill
'A nuke in every garage' is the GOP nominee's energy and climate plan. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) made a stunning statement on the radio show of climate change denier Glenn Beck this week: ... the French are able to generate 80 percent of their electricity with nuclear power. There's no reason why America shouldn't. The Wonk Room, which has the audio, writes of the interview, 'McCain Seemingly Agrees With Glenn Beck That Solutions To Climate Change Can Be Delayed.' ...
Topics: energy, insanity, John McCain, nuclear power, politics (all these topics)

McCain and Clinton: job killers	David Roberts	06 May 2008	Gristmill
According to the American Road & Transportation Builders Association, the gas tax holiday proposed by John McCain and Hillary Clinton would destroy 23,107 jobs in California alone. UPDATE: Steve's got a point. The ARTBA report only criticizes McCain's proposal, because McCain proposes no replacement for the lost revenue. I should have looked more closely at the source report before passing this along.That said, this doesn't get Clinton off the hook. She's propos ...
Topics: Hillary Clinton, insanity, John McCain, oil, politics (all these topics)

Is there no end to it?	David Roberts	05 May 2008	Gristmill
First McCain panders to middle-class drivers, now he's pandering to Ron Steenblick!
Topics: ethanol, John McCain, politics (all these topics)

A Friend Indeed Friends of the Earth Action endorses Obama; candidates spar over		03 May 2008	News
"gas tax holiday" Posted at 2:54 PM on 03 May 2008 Green group Friends of the Earth Action endorsed Barack Obama for president on Saturday, citing his principled stand against a temporary suspension of the gasoline tax. "The 'gas tax holiday' debate is a defining moment in the presidential race," said Friends of the Earth Action President Brent Blackwelder. "The two other candidates respon ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Fox Nukes McCain touts gas-tax holiday as well as 'long-term solutions'	Kate Sheppard	02 May 2008	Gristmill
McCain on the long-term solution to dependence on foreign oil: Nuclear! Despite what those 'extremist environmental organizations' tell you. And despite the fact that only 2 percent of our electricity comes from oil.
Topics: dumbassery, energy, John McCain, Muckraker, news, nuclear power, oil, politics (all these topics)

Why, Hillary, why? A gas tax holiday would be cynical and indefensible	Joseph Romm	02 May 2008	Gristmill
(I write this post with some sadness. I would not have expected a major progressive politician who obviously cares about global warming to propose a gas tax holiday, which has no public benefits whatsoever and at the same time undermines the entire rationale behind a national climate strategy that includes, as it must, a pricing mechanism for greenhouse gases. Kudos to Sen. Obama for opposing this absurd proposal -- double kudos because it might cost him a few vot ...
Topics: energy, Hillary Clinton, insanity, John McCain, oil, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

The gas-tax wars Candidates, Congress split on 'gas tax holiday'	Kate Sheppard	01 May 2008	Gristmill
The 'gas tax holiday' has officially emerged as the latest bickerfest big issue in the presidential race. Hillary Clinton and John McCain say drivers need a break this summer, while Obama is aggressively pushing back against the idea. In a new ad, Obama emphasizes that cutting the tax this summer would save most consumers a mere $30 -- about half the cost of a tank of gas these days. It's a short-term fix, he says in the ad, and 'that's typical of how Washington ...
Topics: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Muckraker, news, politics (all these topics)

Hilarious	David Roberts	01 May 2008	Gristmill
Sam Stein: 'Expert Support For McCain-Clinton Gas Plan Appears Nonexistent' Stein's not kidding, either -- he looked for experts who'd support it. No luck.
Topics: dumbassery, energy, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, oil, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

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