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Lieberman-Warner dolla billz How the $5.7 trillion in Boxer's proposed amendment would be spent	Kate Sheppard	21 May 2008	Gristmill
Barbara Boxer distributed this breakdown [PDF] yesterday detailing how the dolla billz will be spent in her proposed amendment to the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act. There are more than $6.7 trillion in carbon credit allowances and auction revenues that will be distributed over the life of the bill, and this shows where that goes. Feels a bit like Monopoly money, doesn't it?
Topics: Barbara Boxer, climate, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics (all these topics)

Coal miner's candidate Obama wins the endorsement of United Mine Workers of America	Kate Sheppard	21 May 2008	Gristmill
The United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) endorsed Barack Obama for president today, after a unanimous vote of the union's National Council of the Coal Miners' Political Action Committee. In a press release on the endorsement, the UMWA said they chose to endorse Obama over John McCain because of his plans to help working-class Americans and his support for the coal industry. 'Sen. Obama is from a coal state,' UMWA International President Cecil Roberts said in a writ ...
Topics: Barack Obama, coal, energy, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

In the ring Boxer on new L-W amendment: 'I think I have enough votes for the motion to proceed'	Kate Sheppard	20 May 2008	Gristmill
Barbara Boxer. Photo: Kevin Parry/ WireImage Environment and Public Works Chair Barbara Boxer held a press conference this afternoon to officially unveil the outline of her substitute amendment to the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act that she began circulating on the Hill last week. Speaking to collected members of the press, the senator stressed the differences between her amendment and the previous version of the bill and said she is hopeful that they ...
Topics: Barbara Boxer, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (all these topics)

Make it stop Oregon and Kentucky vote; nation yawns and rolls over	Kate Sheppard	20 May 2008	Gristmill
In case anyone's still paying attention, there were two more primaries today. Hillary Clinton scored a big win in Kentucky, with 65 percent of the vote to Obama's 30 percent. But Obama looks poised to win Oregon, and says he's reached the delegate threshold. Various media folks are reporting that he now has an 'insurmountable advantage' in the race for the Democratic nomination, much like they said ... back in February. It's the Groundhog Day primary! Clinton sa ...
Topics: Barack Obama, climate, Hillary Clinton, Kentucky, Muckraker, news, Oregon, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Energy outage Senate Energy Committee members wring their hands about the cost of climate action	Kate Sheppard	20 May 2008	Gristmill
The Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee held a hearing this morning on the economic effects of global climate change legislation, and as expected, it was largely devoted to stoking fears about the potential costs of meaningful action. 'On the extremes, models have been used to show that legislation will have massive disruptions to the economy and cause widespread unemployment,' Committee Chair Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) said in his opening remarks. 'They hav ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, energy, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics (all these topics)

Safety pin Senate Energy and Natural Resources hearing to stoke fear about the costs of climate legislation	Kate Sheppard	19 May 2008	Gristmill
Speaking of cost-containment and the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee is holding a hearing tomorrow on 'recent reports analyzing the energy and economic impacts of climate change legislation.' Many political observers see this as a move intended to scare up concern among Senate Democrats that meaningful action on global warming is just too dang expensive. Why interpret it that way? Because the committee is chai ...
Topics: carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

Boxer briefs Barbara Boxer circulates an outline of her amendment to Lieberman-Warner	Kate Sheppard	19 May 2008	Gristmill
On Friday, Senate Environment and Public Works chair Barbara Boxer released an outline of what promises to be the version of the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act that actually gets debated and amended on the Senate floor in early June. David posted the full document summarizing the manager's amendment earlier today. It's only an outline, not the full text, but from a cursory glance, here are some significant differences from the previous incarnation of Lieberman-W ...
Topics: Barbara Boxer, climate, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

Getting Mr. Smith out of Washington Grist talks to underdog Oregon Senate contender Steve Novick	Kate Sheppard	19 May 2008	Gristmill
Steve Novick. Photo: novickforsenate.org Tomorrow is the presidential primary in both Oregon and Kentucky, but it's also a key Senate primary in Oregon, where two Democrats are facing off to see who will get to take a crack at unseating Gordon Smith, the sole GOP senator on the West Coast. When Oregon House Speaker Jeff Merkley announced his bid for the nomination in August, it looked like a win was inevitable. He was hand-picked by Democratic Senatorial ...
Topics: elections, interview, Muckraker, Oregon, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

Obama fumbles Hanford question In Oregon, Dem candidate admits ignorance on biggest environmental story in PNW	Kate Sheppard	19 May 2008	Gristmill
For enviros in the Pacific Northwest, the Hanford nuclear site is a Very Big Deal. The decommissioned nuclear production complex along the Columbia River in central Washington manufactured the plutonium used in the first nuclear bomb. Today, Hanford is the most contaminated nuclear site in the country and the focus of the nation's largest environmental cleanup.Or it would be, if the federal government weren't mucking it up. In a recent appearance in Oregon, Barack Oba ...
Topics: Barack Obama, Muckraker, news, politics, toxics, waste (all these topics)

Bringing 'round the House The House is lagging behind the Senate on climate change	Kate Sheppard	19 May 2008	Gristmill
The Hill is ablaze with discussion of the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act, which is expected to hit the Senate floor in early June. But on the House side, movement on climate legislation has been slow and quiet. Several bills have been floated, but none have gained any real traction. Everyone is waiting to see what comes out of the Energy and Commerce Committee, where Reps. John Dingell (D-Mich.) and Rick Boucher (D-Va.) are collaborating on bill t ...
Topics: climate, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics, US House of Representatives (all these topics)

Carly Fiorina on McCain RNC 'Victory Chair' talks about McCain's climate agenda	Kate Sheppard	17 May 2008	Gristmill
Grist recently caught a few minutes with Carly Fiorina, the 'Victory Chair' of the Republican National Committee. (Quite the title, eh? Apparently it means she's 'the primary advocate for John McCain and the Republican Party' at the RNC.) Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard and a former executive at both AT&T and Lucent Technologies, is charged with traveling the country to promote McCain's plans for economic growth and job creation. Grist asked her how ...
Topics: climate, elections, John McCain, Muckraker, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

A future for FutureGen? Senate slips life support for 'clean coal' boondoggle into war supplemental package	Kate Sheppard	16 May 2008	Gristmill
Remember FutureGen, the pilot program that was supposed to yield the nation's first zero-emissions, 'clean coal' power plant? The one that even the Bush administration realized was a bad idea, after the price tag on the project ballooned to $1.8 billion? Well, some senators just don't want to see it die ($ub req'd). Yesterday, the Senate Appropriations Committee unanimously approved language to force the Department of Energy to continue funding FutureGen until March ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, coal, Department of Energy, energy, Illinois, Muckraker, news, politics (all these topics)

Windfall beneath his wings? McCain might not be as opposed to a windfall profits tax as his fellow Republicans	Kate Sheppard	16 May 2008	Gristmill
Via the Democratic National Committee's blog, this video makes it seem like John McCain might not be as opposed to a windfall profits tax on oil companies as are his colleagues in the Senate and at the RNC:
Topics: elections, energy, John McCain, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Them's the breaks 'Energy and Tax Extenders Act' clears committee, heads to House floor	Kate Sheppard	16 May 2008	Gristmill
The House advanced legislation yesterday that would renew billions of dollars in tax breaks for wind, solar, biomass, and other renewable energy sources, and extend a proposed new tax credit for biofuels derived from sources other than corn. The 'Energy and Tax Extenders Act of 2008' was approved by the Ways and Means Committee by a vote of 25-12. The total package, which also includes tax breaks for education and business expenses and expands the refundable child t ...
Topics: energy, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics (all these topics)

Hulk smash ... inefficiency! Ed Norton goes to the Hill to talk up green building	Kate Sheppard	15 May 2008	Gristmill
Ed Norton will go green -- literally -- next month when he hits the big screen as The Incredible Hulk. But on Wednesday he was on the Hill talking up the virtues of going green figuratively, in our building practices. Ed Norton on the Hill. Norton appeared before the House Select Committee for Energy Independence and Global Warming, along with experts in the green-building field, to talk about why building green is better for the planet and your wallet. ...
Topics: celebrity, green building, Muckraker, news, politics (all these topics)

Subsidize my love Grist asks McCain about contradictory messages on nuclear subsidies	Kate Sheppard	15 May 2008	Gristmill
John McCain hosted a call-in with bloggers today following his address in Columbus, Ohio, in which he outlined his priorities for a first term in office. Grist got in a couple of questions: You mentioned climate and energy in your speech today, that they would be among your top priorities, and that has also been the focus of several speeches this week. You say in general that you're against subsidies, even for renewable energy, but you said today that you'd like to ...
Topics: elections, energy, John McCain, Muckraker, news, nuclear power, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

'2013' McCain outlines priorities for first term; climate and energy make the cut	Kate Sheppard	15 May 2008	Gristmill
John McCain is in Ohio today, where he gave a speech this morning about what he plans to accomplish by 2013. Progress on climate and energy is part of his vision for a better world at the end of his first term: The United States is well on the way to independence from foreign sources of oil -- progress that has not only begun to alleviate the environmental threat posed from climate change, but has greatly improved our security as well. A cap-and-trade system has bee ...
Topics: climate, elections, energy, John McCain, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Bearly legal Bush admin to list polar bears as threatened; advocates pledge to continue the fight	Kate Sheppard	14 May 2008	Gristmill
Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne was flanked by two large television screens rolling video of polar bears as he discussed his department's decision Wednesday to declare the bears 'threatened.' The video bears -- and the bears in the many photos on display at the press conference -- were fat and happy, wrestling on solid ice floes and devouring the flesh of prey. But environmentalists fear that Interior's decision not to give the bears the stronger 'endangered' design ...
Topics: climate, Department of Interior, Muckraker, news, polar bears, politics (all these topics)

Me, on McCain, on climate, on the radio Talking about where the candidates stand on climate and environmental policy	Kate Sheppard	14 May 2008	Gristmill
Shameless self-promotion alert: I was on the program 'The Conversation,' which airs on the Seattle NPR affiliate KUOW, last night talking about McCain's climate plan and where the presidential contenders stand on environmental policy. I'm about 10 minutes in, and as you can tell by the smattering of 'uhs' and 'ums,' there's a reason why I'm a writer not a talker.
Topics: climate, John McCain, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08, shameless self-promotion (all these topics)

Truth laid bear? McCain promotes eco-cred, while his advisers push for more Bush-style policies	Kate Sheppard	14 May 2008	Gristmill
In honor of John McCain's eco-week, both the McCain campaign and the Republican National Committee have launched sites where folks can make personal pledges to protect the planet. The McCain campaign has also put out a line of 'eco-friendly' swag -- shirts, hats, tote bags, etc. Meanwhile, McCain adviser Kevin Hassett, who is also the director of economic-policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, argues in an op-ed that polar bears shouldn't be listed as ...
Topics: elections, endangered species, john mccain, Muckraker, news, oil and gas drilling, polar bears, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

21 questions Whitehouse and Boxer want answers from EPA's Johnson on Gade ouster	Kate Sheppard	13 May 2008	Gristmill
Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) sent a letter to EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson today, calling for information about the circumstances surrounding the ouster of Mary Gade, the administrator of the agency's Midwest regional office. Gade was allegedly fired after attempting to force Dow Chemical to clean up dioxin pollution around the company's Midland, Mich., plant. Whitehouse and Boxer had 21 questions for Johnson regarding Gade ...
Topics: Barbara Boxer, Muckraker, news, politics, shenanigans, US EPA (all these topics)

Like oil and vinegar Dems and GOP agree to stop filling Strategic Petroleum Reserve	Kate Sheppard	13 May 2008	Gristmill
The Senate today approved legislation to temporarily suspend deliveries to the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve, by a vote of 97-1. The measure was inserted as an amendment to a flood insurance bill, and was opposed only by Sen. Wayne Allard (R-Colo.). The Energy Department sends 70,000 barrels of oil to the reserve every day, a practice that this legislation would put on hold until the end of 2008 or until oil drops below $75 a barrel, whichever comes first. ...
Topics: congress, energy, gas prices, legislation, Muckraker, news, oil, politics (all these topics)

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)

Crank that Mike Gravel Long-shot Gravel reminds us he's still in the presidential race	Kate Sheppard	13 May 2008	Gristmill
Remember Mike Gravel, the carbon-tax advocating, coal-hating, nuke-fighting, public-transit riding Democratic presidential candidate? Well, he's still running for president, but he's decided to join the Libertarian Party. And he's got a new video out, which is ... OK, it's not even vaguely environmental, though there is a reference to oil pipes. Mostly though, it's just amazing: Oh, and today is his 78th birthday, and he's also got a new video out about that. ...
Topics: elections, Mike Gravel, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (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)

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