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Don't celebrate this holiday We need to be freed from gas, not the gas tax	Ryan Avent	17 Apr 2008	Gristmill
John McCain's proposal to institute a gas tax 'holiday' during the summer driving season is as clear an example of a pander as one is likely to see during election season, but its inclusion in a major economic policy speech suggests that this is no easily ignorable one-off. As Joseph Romm notes, any hope progressives might have had that the maverick, straight-talking conservative could bring some principle to the table on climate and energy issues has now gone out the win ...
Topics: energy, gas prices, John McCain, oil, placemaking, politics, public transportation, regulation (all these topics)

Surge II McCain's gas tax holiday from reality	Charles Komanoff	16 Apr 2008	Gristmill
John McCain has a brilliant, original idea: Let's encourage Americans to drive more by lifting the gas tax for a summer 'holiday.'Presumably it's the same principle as the 'surge' in Iraq: so many soldiers are getting killed, let's send even more! Here are some guaranteed effects from McCain's brainstorm. It would: Deepen the federal deficit, thereby weakening the dollar. Increase gasoline consumption, in one stroke worsening highway gridlock, compounding U. ...
Topics: economy, energy, fossil fuels, John McCain, oil, politics, presidential race 08, regulation (all these topics)

That weak-kneed presidential hopeful McCain reveals cynicism, hypocrisy with call for summer gas-tax holiday, energy budget freeze	Joseph Romm	15 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Any remaining glimmer of hope that Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) might be the principled, non-cynical politician to transform our energy policy and avoid the dual calamities of peak oil and climate catastrophe died today. The Associated Press reported that: John McCain called Tuesday for the federal government to free people from paying gasoline taxes this summer ... aimed at stemming the public's pain now from the troubled economy. ... To help people weathe ...
Topics: Congress, economy, energy, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

FOE to McCain: stop pushing for pork for corporate polluters	David Roberts	15 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Friends of the Earth has started a new campaign against John McCain, asking him to 'stop pushing pork for corporate polluters' -- i.e., to stop supporting Lieberman-Warner and stop pushing for nuke subsidies to be added to it. Here's the ad, which is running nationally:
Topics: energy, Friends of the Earth, John McCain, legislation, nuclear power, politics (all these topics)

Note to Newsweek McCain is closer to Bush than to the Democrats	Brad Johnson	07 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Originally posted at the Think Progress Wonk Room. Newsweek's cover story on the presidential candidates and global warming quotes UC Berkeley energy professor Dan Kammen, a supporter of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.)'s presidential campaign: It's unusual to have a Republican candidate who openly disagrees with the Bush administration on the need for capping carbon emissions. There's more disagreement with the current administration than with each other. The idea t ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, George Bush, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

McCain and perception	David Roberts	07 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Jerry Adler has a rundown on climate change in this year's presidential campaign. Somewhat miraculously for a mainstream publication like Newsweek, it's pretty good. This is a good point: So, ironically, McCain -- with a voting record that would put him at the bottom of the heap among Democrats -- is sometimes perceived as more passionate about the environment than his Democratic opponents, whose objectively much stronger records are viewed as a matter of party ...
Topics: John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

McCain has done 'even more' than Al Gore on global warming At least, according to South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham	Joseph Romm	04 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.): 'Climate change is the road less traveled but he's traveled it even more than Al Gore,' Graham said. 'Al Gore has talked about it and deserves great recognition but he was around here a long time and never introduced a bill.' Let's see: McCain got 43 votes the first time he pushed his bill with Lieberman. He added some nuclear subsidies for the second go-round and got 38 votes. I'm not sure he can lay c ...
Topics: Al Gore, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Go south, young polar bear New campaign plans to relocate polar bears to Antarctica	Lisa Hymas	31 Mar 2008	Gristmill
[UPDATE: This post is a joke, as is the Polar Bear Conservancy website. Happy April Fools' Day!] While the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service dawdles over whether or not to list the polar bear as a federally protected endangered species, a nonprofit group is ready to act to save the fast-disappearing mammal. The Polar Bear Conservancy has announced a new program that aims to relocate 3,000 polar bears from the rapidly melting Arctic to the Antarctic -- which, ...
Topics: endangered species, funnies, John McCain, polar bears, US Fish and Wildlife Service (all these topics)

Notable quotable(s)	David Roberts	26 Mar 2008	Gristmill
'I am convinced that if we work at it, we will be able to convince India and China that it is in their interest to be part of a global agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.' -- John McCain, March 2008 'One of the things I would do if I were President would be to sit the Shiites and the Sunnis down and say, 'Stop the bullshit.'' -- John McCain, May 2006
Topics: international politics, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08, quotables (all these topics)

Campaign stunner McCain 'might take [new CAFE standards] off the books'	Joseph Romm	24 Mar 2008	Gristmill
We've heard climate double talk from McCain on "mandates" and "dependence on foreign energy sources." Now, in a stunning interview with E&E News ($ub. req'd), the McCain campaign seriously undermines its claim that the Arizona senator could successfully take on the global warming threat. As the reporter put it, "the Arizona senator's presidential campaign is trying to differentiate itself from its Democratic rivals by rejecting calls f ...
Topics: carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, fuel efficiency, John McCain, politics (all these topics)

World Citizen McCain McCain talks climate change with European leaders		24 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 6:40 AM on 24 Mar 2008 Republican presidential candidate John McCain traveled to Europe and the Middle East last week, meeting with various European leaders to discuss climate change and U.S. foreign policy. McCain broached climate change in separate meetings with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, current U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown, and former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair, who recently announced his quest t ...
Topics: climate, John McCain, news, politics (all these topics)

Foreign energy 'sources' McCain's crooked talk on nuclear power	Joseph Romm	21 Mar 2008	Gristmill
This week John McCain has an article in the Financial Times: "America must be a good role model." It has two paragraphs on the need for leadership on greenhouse gas reductions but endorses only one low-carbon energy source: Right now safe, climate-friendly nuclear energy is a critical way both to improve the quality of our air and to reduce our dependence on foreign energy sources. That dependence, I am afraid, has become a vulnerability for bo ...
Topics: energy, John McCain, nuclear power, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

The elections paradigm shift Why this is the last election, and another look at McCain	Ken Ward	14 Mar 2008	Gristmill
This is the last U.S. election. Have we taken stock of the implications? There is no room for incremental thinking. The storm will fall on whomever we elect president (and isn't there a case for McCain?). Among the startling implications of breaching the 350 ppm limit is the likelihood that this is the last U.S. presidential election during which there remains a slim opportunity to take decisive global climate action. All the ordinary rules and habits of elections and ca ...
Topics: elections, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Primaries thread	David Roberts	04 Mar 2008	Gristmill
This is the thread to discuss all things election related this evening. To kick things off: Obama wins Vermont, handily, as expected. From what I hear the other three are tight. UPDATE: According to CNN, McCain has won Texas, Ohio, Vermont, and Rhode Island, thereby securing the Republican nomination. Guess Huckabee should have majored in math after all. UPDATE: Clinton projected to win Rhode Island. UPDATE: CNN is projecting that both my children are now in bed ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Ohio, politics, presidential race 08, Rhode Island, Texas, Vermont (all these topics)

McCain's environmental record	David Roberts	04 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Don't miss Brad Plumer's excellent review of John McCain's environmental record in The New Republic. He covers a lot of the same ground I covered in my piece on the same subject, only with more of the entertaining details and anecdotes that make him a magazine feature writer and me a mere blogger. On the issue of the supposedly straight-talking McCain being quite squirrely on the issues in practice, see also Elizabeth Bumiller's piece yesterday in the NYT.
Topics: politics, elections, presidential race 08, John McCain (all these topics)

'How not to run for vice president' VP hopeful Pawlenty fails energy/climate conservative litmus test	Joseph Romm	29 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Just in case you thought conservatives might be warming up to climate action and clean energy with the impending nomination of John McCain, uber-conservative columnist Bob Novak explains otherwise in a column titled 'How Not to Run for Vice President.' As a nonconservative, I know I can't do justice to Novak's 'logic' by summarizing it, and I suspect many readers would think I was taking his argument out of context, since it seems so ... well ... judge for yours ...
Topics: energy, climate, politics, elections, presidential race 08, John McCain (all these topics)

Crist	David Roberts	26 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Florida governor Charlie Crist is arguably greener than John McCain, and is often discussed as a possible running mate.Here he is kissing McCain's ass, conspicuously failing to deny that he's being considered for the VP slot, conspicuously failing to say he wouldn't take it, and listing the three major issues for the general campaign (climate doesn't make the cut -- would it for McCain?):
Topics: elections, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Obama and Clinton discuss border wall in last night's debate Will the next president stop construction on the border wall?	Glenn Hurowitz	22 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Last night's debate included some good news for the embattled wildlife and landscape of the Southwest. In response to a question about whether or not they would slow construction of the border wall under construction in the Southwest, both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton criticized the wall as ineffective and counterproductive. Obama went so far as to say he would 'reverse that policy' of building a wall, while Clinton criticized the wall as 'absurd' and s ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, endangered species, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, national security, politics, presidential race 08, wildlife (all these topics)

LCV 2007 scorecard John McCain scores a big ol' goose egg on this year's environmental report card	David Roberts	21 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Today, the League of Conservation Voters released its annual scorecard, which rates legislators based on their votes on issues of environmental significance. The LCV scorecard has its critics, but it's nonetheless become something of a gold standard when measuring how "green" a lawmaker is. A couple of big stories emerge from this year's scorecard. The first speaks for itself: Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.): 67% Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY): 73% Sen. ...
Topics: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, League of Conservation Voters, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Hero or Zero? McCain gets a zero from League of Conservation Voters; Obama and Clinton score better		21 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 11:47 AM on 21 Feb 2008 Republican presidential candidate John McCain got a score of zero from the League of Conservation Voters for his voting record on environmental issues in Congress in 2007 -- not because he voted against environmental protections, but because he simply didn't show up to vote. McCain missed all 15 of the Senate votes that LCV counted in compiling its annual congres ...
Topics: John McCain, news, politics, presidential race 08, United States (all these topics)

Presidential campaign footprints under scrutiny Confused Washington Times disses McCain and Obama on lack of carbon offsets	Joseph Romm	20 Feb 2008	Gristmill
In a bizarre twist, the conservative Washington Times, which would normally be critical of fuzzy environmental strategies like carbon offsets, is actually attacking the candidates for not offsetting all their campaign emissions. Opening with an absurd headline, 'Green crusades lot of talk,' the Times writes: Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama have called for strict mandatory limits to control greenhouse gases but they aren't leading by example -- each has failed ...
Topics: Barack Obama, carbon offsets, climate, elections, energy, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Wisconsin goes to Obama and McCain	David Roberts	19 Feb 2008	Gristmill
The Wisconsin primary goes to Barack Obama and John McCain -- both got about 55%, to Clinton's 43 and Huckabee's 37 respectively (Ron Paul got his usual 4). That's Obama's ninth victory in a row. Clinton's chances of reversing this tide are looking slimmer all the time. On that note, both winners seem to be gearing up for the general. McCain said, 'I will fight every moment of every day in this campaign to make sure Americans are not deceived by an eloquent but empty ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08, Wisconsin (all these topics)

John McCain and climate change How strong is McCain's commitment to fighting global warming?	David Roberts	15 Feb 2008	Gristmill
The following post was first published on Passing Through, The Nation's guest blog, where I will be posting all month. Though recession and war are probably higher on the public's immediate priority list, there is no challenge of greater historical consequence facing the next U.S. president than the climate crisis. It is vitally important that the next chief executive enter the Oval Office committed to decisive and sustained action. He or she will need a firm g ...
Topics: climate, elections, energy, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

A compulsive ... nontruth-teller John McCain avoids using the word 'mandatory' when discussing cap-and-trade	Joseph Romm	14 Feb 2008	Gristmill
When will the media stop calling McCain a straight-talker and realize he is a pathological doubletalker? I realize the 'L' word is frowned upon in politics, so instead of using that word, which, in any case, doesn't do justice to the full range of doubletalk in the political arena -- let's just imagine there is an agreed-upon objective scale from 1 to 10 of veracity (with 5 being half-true) that goes something like this: (10) Fred Thompson, December 2007: 'I' ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, elections, energy, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

No climate for old men Why John McCain isn't the candidate to stop global warming	Joseph Romm	08 Feb 2008	Gristmill
McCain's astonishing doubletalk on climate in the Florida GOP debate -- denying that a cap and trade system is a mandate -- made me start rethinking what a McCain presidency would mean for the fight to prevent catastrophic global warming. The more I researched McCain's views, the more I talked to others, the more I felt forced to change my previous view. Salon has just published my long analysis, which concludes that while he would be vastly superior to Bush on c ...
Topics: climate, elections, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

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